Fish, Flying, & Family ~ Baseball, Baltimore, & the Beach ~ Washington D.C. & The Pumpkin Patch

After story hour, Landen went on an imaginary fishing trip and he's showing off his string of fish here...

Ethan was out of school last week for Fall break, so we flew out on Friday night to visit Shane, Miriam, and Ashton for the week.

             Landen slept on the plane

 We got to their house late on Friday night and then headed out Saturday morning for Arlington, VA to watch Ashton play baseball. On Saturday night we took a tour of Washington D.C. and then stayed overnight there in a hotel as Ashton had more games on Sunday.

 The boys with Miriam and Albert Einstein

          The rest of us with Albert

     Josh, Shane, Ashton, & Ethan in front        

               of the White House

          All of us in front of the Capitol

        The boys & I at the Washington            

                      Monument

On Sunday, the boys tired quickly of the unforgiving heat while sitting at Ashton's games. So, we headed to Baltimore, MD to the (air conditioned) aquarium.

 After the aquarium we floated around the harbor in pedal boats.

On Monday we had a lazy day at their house and then on Tuesday we headed to the beach in Ocean City, NJ. It was chilly but we didn't let that stop us. We just went to the beach in jackets and pants. 

On Wednesday, we slept in and then went to a mall. Ethan tried a new kind of chicken and this was his response...

On Thursday afternoon we headed back home to gear up for youth hunt weekend.

Ethan didn't kill anything but he and his dad, and Uncle Derek had a great weekend in the woods.

I realized this weekend that if we're planning to decorate pumpkins we had better hurry up and buy some. So, today after picking Ethan up at school we headed to Just Piddlin' with Grammy. It was such a beautiful afternoon!

A Busy but Beautiful Weekend

Friday night we went to Hobby Lobby to pick up decor for Josh's new office. Landen wanted me to take his picture with the metal airplanes. He just had to bring one home to add to the planes already in his room. 

After Hobby Lobby, we had dinner at Shogun. Ethan had been looking forward to eating there all week and bringing a buddy along was just icing on the cake.

Landen wasn't feeling it...

Saturday we met up with our church family at Chaney's for a little fun in the farm. First, we had a meal and then played games in the meeting room...

Then, we went on a hayride...

And petted the calves...

Next, we played on the playground...

 

And last we had ice cream and watched a movie, The Incredibles, during which the boys fell asleep on a quilt, so we headed on home.

Yesterday, Josh and I went to our first Titan's games. Josh got free box seats through work, so it was awesome! There was an array of food and drinks provided to us. The Titans won! It was a great game, except for Jake Locker having to go to the hospital at the beginning of the third quarter. His hip was injured and he is out for 4-8 weeks, ugh! 

The Titans & Jets prayed together after the game.

We can't wait to go to another game and take Ethan with us!

Today we just had a chill day at home. This evening my best little helper enjoyed chopping veges for dinner. ❤