Monday, September 29, 2014

FUN WEEKEND!!

We had a great weekend!!!  Saturday, we started off with the girls soccer games...which was nothing less than miserable!  They absolutely hate soccer and cry during the games half the time.  UGH.  Torture for this mommy!  Anyway...after that things got a lot better!!  The girls and I stopped by the place where Cesar's students were competing in a tournament and they were ROCKING it!  His school just annihilated everyone all day.  They walked away with 18+ medals...most of those gold!  So proud of all the work he is putting into these kids and adults!!
Anyway, then the girls and I went home and took a nice long nap together...then woke up and packed for a camping trip!  As soon as Cesar got home we drove up to Harper's Ferry and camped out!  Our good friends the Stillmans came and had dinner and S'mores with us and then drove home that night.  The girls absolutely LOVE everything about camping...and so did I until we saw a GIANT ENORMOUS HAIRY spider right next to our tent in the morning!  I swear it was a tarantula!  UGH...it was pretty awful.  Anyway, this may be my last camping trip this year...I need some time to recover from that.  He He!  In the morning, we played for a long time, had a pancake breakfast, and the girls played their first round of mini-golf every (and both hit a hole in one on the FIRST try!)  They were a little disappointed every round after that as they were getting much higher numbers!! 
After that we left the camp site, went home and took a nap, and then everyone came to my soccer game!!  Overall an amazing weekend!!!!  I really love family weekends like that!!!!








I told Bella she should get into fencing.  Look at her posture :)





Walking back to the tent from a bathroom trip (yes, there are real bathrooms there!!)

Getting some use out of his Golf Trainer certificate :)

First Day of School 2014

 

 





 









Wednesday, September 24, 2014

First ever Paredes family camping trip!


So, we finally took our first ever family camping trip in August!  I have been dragging my feet with it as I have never been and didn't know how it would go, but ya know what...it was AWESOME!  We had SO much fun!!  We just went up to Harper's Ferry (20 minutes away or so) to the KOA up there, but we camped in tent and all 4 of us had an amazing time.  There was lots for the girls to do (a jumping pillow, a pool, live music at night, and lots more that we didn't get around to doing) and they really had fun with the whole tent/cookout/staying up late process!!!  I think I took a bunch more pics on my camera but I keep forgetting to download them...so for now, here is just a snap shot of our day/night!!
 




the girls made friends with some other kids right away when we got there!

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Silly Daddy & Bella faces


All snuggled up for bed.

The next morning...we survived :)





Fishing the next day

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Random summer...


Been a while since I went through my phone and uploaded the pics...so here is a few weeks worth of pics from earlier in the summer!
 
Isabella at the pool

Playtime after gymnastics class

Daddy and Leah having fun in the pool

One of many six flags trips






Picnic dinner at the park


Trip to six flags with the cousins

Site word marshmallow Bingo


Cookie decorating after dinner with Friends





Taking pics at the grocery store...we are nerds!!

Movie night!



Face painting at Nathan's birthday party


My little princess reading her new book

More six flags fun with Kai and Demi

Heading out to play in the rain


Trip to home depot after gymnastics!


Milk Shakes at Family Meal with Samuel and Nathan