Christmas List

Here is Tim's Christmas list:

1) Socks
2) Swim Trunks
3) Batman: Arkham City.
4) Call of Duty: MW3.
5) A Jeep.
6) A jersey.
7) A bicycle.
8) A car, of course.
9) Entry to the Odyssey relay.
10) Or whatever.

The prophets

These words suddenly appeared around the pool. We are not sure about the meaning. Could have something to do with 'occupy wall street.'

Hay Ride

We went on the hay ride at Harman's. Turns out the hay ride is to take you pumpkin picking, which did not interest us. So we got a free ride and no pumpkin. The girls also tried the hay maze.

Disney World

Canberra Nature Park

Tim got a chance to go to Australia for work. Here are some pics from theCanberra Nature Park.

Here are some kangaroos.

And a sleepy kangaroo.

And a noisy red bird.

And a little bird with a yellow bill.

Cats

The girls got their faces painted at the Blueberry Festival. And they got a paint by numbers kit from their grandpa. Naturally, this lead to them painting each others' faces.

The National Zoo

We spent some time at the National Zoo today.

The kids had a good time in the sprinklers.

This panda bear was excited about his lunch.

This fellow was deep in thought.

The girls made friends with the meerkats.

This character kept trying to tell us to eat breakfast cereal.

Dancing

Zoe and Annie.

Annie in her ballet outfit.

Zoe in her ballet outfit.

Zoe in her hip-hop outfit.

Zoe and Annie headed in on Friday night.

After Party

Annie and her teacher. Zoe had the same teacher a few years ago.

Kindergarten Graduation

This little guy did the introduction.


The kids signed 'what a wonderful world.'


Some paparazzi.


The kids did a song about going to first grade.


This gal did the closing.

Hail

We had a short hail storm a few day ago



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Annie's Observation Day

Annie's gymnastics class ended this week, so we got a chance to watch the last day.

Here she is doing an assisted kickover.


Here she is on the beam:


Practicing her cast:


Another kid is crawling under her as they practice bridge.


And, she finally got her ribbon:

Run Amuck

The girls did the one-mile Kids' Run Amuck in Quantico, Virginia.

Here is the map:


Here they are at the rope climb:


After going through the fire hose:


The mud pit:


Victory:

Zoe's Observation Day

Zoe's gymnastics class ended this week, and we got to go watch it.

Zoe pondering while doing warm-ups.


Zoe doing a kickover.


Zoe in a bridge.


Zoe is getting a tip about this bar activity from her coach.


Zoe got a ribbon.