Family Pictures

My friend Kristin that used to do our family pictures each year moved to NC, so we had to go with a different person.  So, I asked a girl who is in the parents of multiples club that I used to be a part of to do it.  She is just starting out, so her pics aren't quite the same quality as Kristin does, but she did a pretty good job with the pics of the girls.  Cesar and I aren't really fans of any of the ones we are in, but maybe that is just because we are getting old.  HE HE!  So...our 6th round of annual family pictures:

 

My three Loves

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

 

 

 

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