Air and Space Museum

After almost a week of being snowed in and not leaving the house, we were ready to get out and do something. After spending the morning grocery shopping and the afternoon napping/resting I wanted to take the kids to do something fun. The Air and Space Museum in Dulles is free after 4:00 pm. The kids had fun seeing the airplanes and learning about space travel. I was happy to get out and give them a chance to rid us of some cabin fever.

Levi loves a trip to the bathroom!

picture taken by Miriam

picture taken by Simon

Snowed In!

On Friday the 22nd of January it started snowing. The kids had fun playing outside (except Levi - he was not a fan) trying to shovel the sidewalk. We heard it was going to be a big storm, so we stocked up on food and got prepared to spend the weekend snowed in.

By 8:00 am Saturday morning our van was buried. Michael headed out to try to shovel our sidewalk. It was really no use. Not only was it snowing but we had 25-30 mph winds. We decided just to wait it out. That evening I wanted to go down and take some pictures to document the snow. Due to the winds blowing the snow we had quite the pile up in front of our garage.

By Sunday morning the snow had stopped and the winds had died down. We ended up with a huge snow pile in front of our house. The neighborhood kids had a lot of fun making it into a slide.

However, the snow fun can only last for so long. Due to a miscommunication with our HOA our neighborhood got overlooked and didn't get plowed until Wednesday morning. We were literally snowed in for five days!

Grandpa Braswell visits

My Dad gets to visit Washington DC for work a couple of times a year. We are lucky that he came a couple of days early this time to spend some extra time with us. We enjoyed seeing him and the kids all loved playing with Grandpa.

We had a great year!

It is hard to believe 2015 has come and gone. I love looking back on the memories we have made. Here are some pictures recapping the great year we have had. Miriam, Simon, and Levi have grown up so much! Here's hoping for many more great memories for 2016.

Happy New Year!