Spring?? or Winter Break??

"Spring Break" started on Friday. On Saturday, we decided to go on a day trip. The weather tried to be cooperative (for every situation). For the first time all season, we had snow that actually accumulated on the ground -- briefly!

The kids had fun throwing snowballs at each other.....and me.

Our trip included driving through Yorktown, down the Colonial Parkway to Jamestown. While we were on the Colonial Parkway, it started snowing really bad (almost a blizzard) but the sun was shining at the same time and blue sky was ahead. It was the strangest weather I've ever seen!

From Jamestown, we got on the ferry (Pocahontas), and rode to Surry County.

At the Jamestown ferry dock, the kids spotted an Osprey sitting on her nest atop a group of pilings.

The view from the upper deck of the ferry.

The original Jamestown Settlement as viewed from the James River.

Another ferry headed for the Jamestown docks.

Once we were in Surry County, we drove through the countryside and saw a "whole herd" (ok, flock) of wild turkeys.

Very interesting day trip!

Sunset

Virginia Sunset

My Scouts

Boy Scout Court of Honor. Kelby earned 4 merit badges and Levi is doing his Eagle project on April 13-14. I'm sure we'll have a lot of pictures to post from the project.

More Basketball

Sporting some style -- check out the socks!

Is Clint running mid-air??

Nellysa catches some air for a layup!

Kelby shoots a 3 pointer -- What's up with the feet?

Levi catches some air :-)
Just had to show another "air" picture.

The familiar scene after the B-ball game.
DONUTS & JUICE
The season comes to an end!!

Smoors & Paparazzi

The new attraction in our backyard -- a fire pit. The kids love to cook hot dogs and make smoors out there. The only problem is that everything smells like a campfire around here.

I thought I was being so sneaky with the camera ( you have to be around my kids), but as you can see, Levi discovered the paparazzi in the window.

Yea, I'm Tough

"You should've seen the other guy!!"

All I'm allowed to say about this is that Kelby's lip collided with skin at a fast speed and things turned ugly ;-)

Shy Kids+ Available cats+ Camera Happy Mom = More Cat Pictures

Bandit was not too happy when I took this picture as you can probably tell by the lowered ear and evil eye.

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" Daddy's home and I'm not letting him go!" (Diego) ~~~~~~~~~~~~o0o~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Check it out!" (Diego figures out the sink)

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"Wow, how does that taste?"

"Mmm, Mmm Good!"

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The big question of the day -- "Where does it go?"
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