Friday, August 29, 2014

Gabi Visits - Days 1+2, including Luray Caverns

It was August, so it was time for another Grasheim-Morey adventure. This time, the Coloradans came to us, and boy did we pack that week with a lot of stuff!

First up was a Yaunches (and some Erger, on Adam's side) family bagel breakfast, with close by relatives coming to Bethesda to welcome Gabi and family into town. We were neglectful on the photo front, and only came out of that great breakfast with the photo below.

I don't think you can even tell that our younger cousin Sarah is 7 months pregnant!

The next day, we loaded into the cars for the couple of hours drive to the Shenandoah National Park area, and specifically to Luray Caverns in Virginia.

We arrived to Luray around lunchtime, and so we stopped for a bite to eat.



The kids just loved being in the caverns, always saying how "awesome" they were. It truly was a great stop for them all. Adam sat outside resting his foot. Note: My camera did not do well in the dark. Lots of devil eyes.








I was carrying Kaya on my back for a lot of the trip, but she often wanted to get down.

After, we stopped for some ice cream!


Luray has lots of other "historical" attractions, including a car museum, an old toy museum, and a frontier museum. The girls and I went to the gemstone sluice to clean and gather some gems.  Then it was on to the house we rented in town and a rest.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Wrapping up July 2014

Before we head into vacation posts with Gabi and family visiting, we have some photos to share from the end of July.

What's this? It's Adam in the ER after a bad landing in his adult gymnastics class. A horrible sprain that today (August 20) is still healing. Poor guy. At least no breaks?

Dinner with Saba and DeeDee



The girls have their Halloween costumes! 
Anna and Elsa from the movie Frozen, of course.

Sister bath.

Sister haircuts! Liora got her hair washed at the salon for the first time.



Kaya did much better this time (her second haircut), thanks to Frozen being on the TV.


This little hat was given to Liora at the hospital on the day she was born! I kept it in her drawer, and one day she came down with it on her head like this. Still fits! Hilarious.

Summer days after school are awesome!

With mommy's summer schedule at work, we had extra time after school to stop at the playground or sometimes the pool. I'll miss summer!

Kaya "eats" a string bean; don't have many photos from this meal, but MeMe was visiting from California and everyone had a yummy dinner together the night she got in.