After we had so much fun last year in Sperryville, VA with the Somobrights and Hjeltaks, we decided to take another group vacation — this time to Cape Charles, VA.  Cape Charles is a sleepy little town at the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula.  It was formed in the 1880s when an enterprising duo [...]

Wasn’t Nico just born?  Has it really been almost 7 months???  Time is just flying and June really whizzed by.  I ended up taking a bunch of photos and videos — probably because I felt so guilty about not taking many in April and May.  But I was actually busier in June than in either [...]

Just in time for Father’s Day…here are photos from my first Mother’s Day.  These were supposed to be included in yesterday’s slide show, but there was some sort of glitch so here they are as their very own presentation.  I also learned a lesson — when I realized that a bunch of photos had been [...]

Matthew hosted the cousins again when Julia and her family were driving through from a family vacation in Orlando.  We hadn’t seen baby Robert since our baby shower last fall and if he was big then, he’s huge now!  He is also just about ready to walk, which was very fun to watch. We got [...]

Our grad school friends were last here en masse for a combined baby shower for Bonnie and me.  They returned in April because Bonnie and Tom were bringing their baby, Holly, to DC so Bonnie could run the Cherry Blossom 10 mile race.  As always, it was a relaxing weekend of just sitting around and catching up and, [...]

Staying with the theme of gorgeous spring flowers in DC, Frank and I took Nico to the US Arboretum the day before Easter.  We had been there once before but didn’t realize how sprawling the place is — we had parked and walked and thought we covered a lot of ground.  This time, we drove [...]

Nick applied to a bunch of colleges and, of course, all of them wanted him to pick them.  So he set off on a tour which brought him to DC to visit Towson.  Marie brought him here and his sisters, Tara and Dana, came along to hang out with the baby.  While Marie and Nick [...]

Leaping forward by a month, here are photos of Nico from March.  Highlights from the month included: Nico’s first night alone with Daddy while Mommy went out with the ladies to celebrate Sara’s birthday A trip to FL to see the grandparents (those pictures are coming tomorrow) His first vaccine – DTaP #1 His first [...]