Cunningham Falls

This week I took the boys to the lake at Cunningham Falls in Maryland. It is a beautiful state park about an hour away from where we live. The boys enjoyed being buried in the sand and building sand castles. Matthew spent four hours trying to catch the small fish in the lake. Christopher was put in charge of building a huge pond in which to put the fish that Matthew caught. Joshua and I played a game of Beach Volleyball, while Thomas played with his trucks in the sand.

We actually took a little detour getting to the lake. I wanted to go through Hagerstown, so I could shop at the Children's Place Outlet store. We scored big time. We found shirts for $3.99 and shorts for $2.99. What a Bargain! The boys and I had so much fun picking out shirts and shorts.

After shopping we stopped and had lunch. Then we headed off to the lake cutting through back roads to get there. On our way we found two peach orchards. I ended up buying three 1/2 bushels of peaches. Yummy! We were so excited to find the orchards.

Ice Cream

You Scream, I Scream we all Scream for Ice Cream!


One of my favorite things in life is Ice Cream. I can never resist a scoop of ice cream unless it is Chocolate Ice Cream. My favorite kind of ice cream is one I can only find at Paces Dairy Ann in Utah. They are called Rainbows. Um, Yummy! It is a mixture of vanilla ice cream and a slushy drink. You can get the slushy in either lime, orange, cherry or grape flavor. I think the best Rainbows are the cherry flavored ones. Although Ryan would argue that the grape one is the best. My favorite kind of ice cream is probably Oreo and even just plain vanilla ice cream. I also like the new American Idol yellow cake mix flavored ice cream.



Well, I have had my eye on this Soft Ice Cream Maker throughout the summer. Finally Ryan bought it for me. YEPPY! We have had so much fun making ice cream with it. It has three different containers attached to the machine in which you can add mix-ins to your ice cream as it is dispensing. I wish I would of taken the cute pictures of the kids eating their ice cream cones, but I am to busy enjoying my ice cream. Since we use it almost every day, I will hopefully capture some pics next time.

Cunningham Falls

This week I took the boys to the lake at Cunningham Falls in Maryland. It is a beautiful state park about an hour away from where we live. The boys enjoyed being buried in the sand and building sand castles. Matthew spent four hours trying to catch the small fish in the lake. Christopher was put in charge of building a huge pond in which to put the fish that Matthew caught. Joshua and I played a game of Beach Volleyball, while Thomas played with his trucks in the sand.

We actually took a little detour getting to the lake. I wanted to go through Hagerstown, so I could shop at the Children's Place Outlet store. We scored big time. We found shirts for $3.99 and shorts for $2.99. What a Bargain! The boys and I had so much fun picking out shirts and shorts.

After shopping we stopped and had lunch. Then we headed off to the lake cutting through back roads to get there. On our way we found two peach orchards. I ended up buying three 1/2 bushels of peaches. Yummy! We were so excited to find the orchards.

Ice Cream

You Scream, I Scream we all Scream for Ice Cream!


One of my favorite things in life is Ice Cream. I can never resist a scoop of ice cream unless it is Chocolate Ice Cream. My favorite kind of ice cream is one I can only find at Paces Dairy Ann in Utah. They are called Rainbows. Um, Yummy! It is a mixture of vanilla ice cream and a slushy drink. You can get the slushy in either lime, orange, cherry or grape flavor. I think the best Rainbows are the cherry flavored ones. Although Ryan would argue that the grape one is the best. My favorite kind of ice cream is probably Oreo and even just plain vanilla ice cream. I also like the new American Idol yellow cake mix flavored ice cream.



Well, I have had my eye on this Soft Ice Cream Maker throughout the summer. Finally Ryan bought it for me. YEPPY! We have had so much fun making ice cream with it. It has three different containers attached to the machine in which you can add mix-ins to your ice cream as it is dispensing. I wish I would of taken the cute pictures of the kids eating their ice cream cones, but I am to busy enjoying my ice cream. Since we use it almost every day, I will hopefully capture some pics next time.

Downpour Waterpark

Friday's field trip, the boys and I invited some friends to go to Downpour which is a local Water park. The last time I had gone was when Matthew was Joshua's age and Christopher was Thomas' age. I like this water park because it isn't a huge water park. I like that even though I am in the kiddie section with the younger kids I can still see the bigger pool and water slides.

Matthew and his friend Zachary went to the big slides and spent the day going down the two big water slides. They kept checking in with me throughout the day. They had a blast racing each other down the slides. It was nice for Matthew to have someone his age to go off and hang with instead of having to stay in the kiddie section with his brothers.

Christopher had fun swimming all around the smaller kid section. He loved going down the two slides in that section. His highlight came at the end...He was just 2" short for the big slides which were where Matthew and Zachary had spent the day. The lifeguards switched on the big slide and Matthew started to notice that smaller kids were getting to slide down the slide. He quickly ran over and asked if Christopher could go down them. We all walked over and decided to give it a try. Sure enough the lifeguard let him go down the slide. He did AWESOME! In all of the excitement I forgot to tell him what to do when he got to the bottom of the slide. His first time down he didn't know where to swim to when he hit the water. The lifeguard ended up having to help him because he was swimming against the water slide current and wasn't going anywhere. After he got out and I told him what to do next time. He quickly hurried back up to do it again. It was fun to see Matthew's excitement to see his brother doing the big slides.

Joshua loved the water, although he wasn't so sure of the tube slides. He loved running through the water fountains and sliding down the wave slide.

Thomas enjoyed the kiddie wave slide. He would climb up the four stairs, sit at the top and then slide down on his belly, feet first into the water. He would then walk to the edge of the pool and climb out and do it all again. Thomas has no fear of the water. He loves to submerge his face in water. Three times he made it to the top of the playground and tried to get into the tube slides. I was able to recruit Matthew and a friend's older son to take him down a couple of times.

We had a great day and the boys are already asking when can we go again.

Sunday Dress

I have a friend who regularly takes pictures of her kids in their Sunday best. I thought I would try it. Unfortunately, this is as good as I could get it. I should include the number of pictures I took while trying to get the boys all looking at the camera. Thomas was either crying or missing from the picture. Christopher kept covering his eyes with his hands because the sun was to bright for his sensitive eyes. Not to mention all of the funny poses in between.
I Love my boys and this picture will have to do.

Demolition Derby

(Pictures taken with camcorder. I forgot the Camera batteries needed to be charged. Not the greatest quality.)


Monday night I took the boys to the Loudoun County Fair to watch a Demolition Derby. We had a blast watching the cars get demolished. As soon as it started, Joshua snuggled right into my side. We were on the front row. As you can see from the top picture, there is a fence and then a concrete barrier ring that surrounds the derby. Four cars go at it at a time. They have two rounds and the top two cars from each round move onto the finally derby. This year they added an extra round of mini vans. It was a riot watching all these cars. It is amazing to me the age of the drivers. Some look like they are in their fifties. This year there were no major car fires. Two cars during two different rounds got pushed up onto the top of the concrete barriers. It was funny to watch the drivers, who were trying so hard to rock their vehicles off of the barriers. I am surprised of the adrenaline rush you get watching cars going full speed backwards and crashing into other vehicles. Your kind of on edge somewhat, making sure no tires or bumpers go flying in your direction. Not to mention car fires starting at any point. You see tons of sparks under the cars and you wonder if the officials can see them.
We had a great evening watching the derby. We finished the night off with some cotton candy.