Road Trip 2013 Part 1

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Levi had his end of year program at his school right before our trip. Here he is with some classmates.


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Here's Levi checking out his end of year scrapbook.


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Levi and his friend Wade


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Bethany with two of her teachers from school


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Bethany and her first teacher, Ms. Christina. She actually leaned away from me to go to her when we walked up.


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Levi and one of his favorite teachers, Ms. Watson


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Levi and his teacher, Ms. Miranda. She was a great teacher.


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The next morning we delayed heading out for our trip because Levi was upset he was going to miss singing at the end of year chapel at school.


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He was having fun at first.


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Then someone told him to stop doing something and he pouted the rest of the time. 5 year olds are fun.


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Finally on the road, little does she know what's coming


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Levi knows there's a Wii and DVD player in the car.


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On the second day of our trip we went to Ruby Falls near Chattanooga.


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Fancy


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Such a trooper


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Happy family


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Ruby falls is an underground cave with a waterfall. Some of the rocks are okay to rub


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Fancy stalagtites


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Bethany fell asleep on the way through the cave.


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Some parts were quite narrow.


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The camera lighting wasn't all that great because it had the wrong setting


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Unfortunately you can't even see the waterfall behind us. Levi was cold by the way.


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Its pretty in there


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Unfortunately the lighting doesn't stay going long enough.


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A lot of the formations have names on them and such.


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I'm sure she was doing something here, but here's some cute crazy eyes.


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Levi and Kendra.


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After the cave looking around.


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Happy girl finally got some food.


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The whole sign on the waterfall.


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The castle above the cave.

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Road Trip 2013

So our family took our first road trip this summer to visit family.  We drove 3800 miles, with our car on for 84 hours and averaging 44 miles per hour.  We went from Houston to Ruby Falls in Chattanooga, to Washington DC and then Baltimore.  We were in Baltimore for my granny’s 90th birthday party.  After that we headed to North Carolina to see Kendra’s grandparents.  Finally we headed home stopping in Orange Beach, Alabama first.  We had a great trip over the two weeks and did a lot.  The kids did a great job.  Levi played a lot of Wii in the car and watched a lot of movies.  Bethany did a lot of napping.  We fed her as we drove a few times.  We changed a lot of diapers in the car as well.  We also got to take a day trip to a hospital in Bel Air, Maryland.  More about that in the coming posts.

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Ημέρα της Μητέρας

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Our kids all dressed up for Mother's Day


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Cute smiles


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Of course some of our pictures came out blurry, but I think we have a good one somewhere too


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For Mother's day I took Kendra to the Clear Lake Greek Festival. We ended up running into her mom there after we had lunch


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Happy girl


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Levi conned us into some snow cone


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And then dropped it. We also ran into Levi's classmate Julie at the Greek Festival


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We went to the park afterwards. Levi went swinging.


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She loved it


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Levi did some superman swinging.


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Zoom in.


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The festival was very tiring


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She needed the nap.


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So cute


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And some video.

 

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Parks and Playtime

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Levi's class went on another field trip, this time to Challenger Park. Here's Levi and one of his oldest friends, Wade.


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The field trippers


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Examining bugs. Kendra said they did a lot of nature observations and scavenger hunting.


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Some of Levi's classmates


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Trying to catch some bugs


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A rolly poly


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He's not quite Sherlock Holmes yet.


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They also got to see some animals.


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And of course play on the playground


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Wade again


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Julie, one of his other classmates.


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Erik, who he has also gone to school with for a long while, though they're in different classes.


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Levi's class and his great teacher Ms. Miranda


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Four pictures of them all and not one good one.


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The rest of these pictures are more random, including this very cute one from Bethany.


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And Dmitri being silly wearing an old Halloween costume.


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Self portraits are hard with little miss.


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You have to keep her from wiggling and grabbing the camera.


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Or hold it up high.


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Paint us like one of your french girls.


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Our stylish little girl


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At the photo studio


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Hanging out with big brother.


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Playing with a dolly at school.


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We are pretty sure teething has started


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Bethany was very interested in the little power wheel


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Sadie took her for a ride and she loved it


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So many things to touch

 

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