Summer Adventures...

So far we have had an amazing summer! And today is just the first (official) day! Oh and by the way... Happy Father's Day!

Between finals (no more class work! yea!!!) and the beginning of 4th year rotations we decided to go on a few adventures... and a few misadventures to go right in the mix...

To begin with, our air conditioning, dvd player, and tv all stopped working on the same day! So we called the air guy and a silly spider crept in the transitor and died (a quite inconvenient location...) I guess I didn't feel as hot as he did. The audio in our tv had suddenly gone out after Ethan had been messing with the buttons and remotes... a few days later we pushed the mute button on the unused remote to the converter box... and viola! we had our tv again... the only sad ending is our dvd player ( that we bought for 15 cents at a garage sale.. you get what you pay for i guess) went all the way of the earth... it does not and will not ever work again... oh well.

This is Ethan making to most out of our lack of cool air...

That weekend we took a fun little trip to the Dayton Air Museum, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, Lincoln's birthplace, and the Louisville Slugger Museum...



James and Ethan in the cockpit of some fighter plane



Rotunda room of Mammoth Cave. We took the baby tour, but there are other tours that are more in depth... he he he...that you can really get down and dirty... It would be really cool to go on one of those tours... when I'm not pregnant and toting a two year old...



Our tent after the almost tornado... when we returned to our campsite after the cave the wind and rain picked up and we heard tornado sirens in the distance... so we took refuge in a nearby McDonald's. After waiting it out for nearly two hours this is what we found... so we stayed in a hotel that looked like it was taken right out of a scary movie... yikes! We survived to take a beautiful walk in the morning... near the mouth of Mammoth Cave.



On our way up to Louisville we took a little detour to Lincoln's birthplace...




Log cabin? I don't think so! So secretly, inside this shrine there's a log cabin that was built around the time of Lincoln's birth... I would show you the picture... but baby, I'm so chunky! (see Madagascar 2)



Now that's passion... I wish he would kiss me like that!



Ken Griffey who? Steeerike!



Monster Bat!



After returning home from all that fun Ethan helped James take apart his crib. He loves his big boy bed!!

Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial day weekend was great! We had a Holt family reunion. We traveled to D.C., Philly, Hershey and Gettysburg. In D.C. we saw the monuments, the Air and Space Museum, and the National Art Gallery. We toured Independence Hall, saw the Liberty Bell, and the Ben Franklin Museum in Philadelphia. We took a pit stop in Valley Forge. It was gorgeous! In Hershey we went to Chocolate World and Hershey Park for a day of fun. Our last day of the trip was spent in Gettyburg. We toured the new visitor's center and Civil War Museum and ate lunch in the rain. It was amazing! The best part of our trip was seeing everyone. We enjoyed eating sandwiches, playing at the park, playing mafia, riding roller coasters, eating twizzlers, seeing the sights and just being with some of our favorite people...

It's true...

not only did I eat too many Easter treats, but my lovely new chubbiness is also due pregnancy. Wahoo! Baby numero dos will be joining us in October. Yea for babies and no more nausea!

also...

A funny little blog stalking story... so on Sunday I was baking cookies. I think cookies are the most boring thing to bake 'cause you can't just put them in and come back 30 min later...it's every 8-10 so you can't really do anything else... so I thought a little bit of blog stalking would pass the time.... well... over the course of an hour of amusement my peanut butter chocolate chip cookies turned into nice chocolate looking chocolate chip cookies... I guess that's what I get for blog stalking...

NYC trip

For spring break we decided to take a quick trip to NYC. It was a whirlwind trip (I think we only spent about 4.5 hours in the city), but still a blast!

The Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry.

Brooklyn Bridge

Manhattan from the ferry.



Corner of Wall St. and Broadway



Interesting fellow doin' a jig on the corner.



James and Ethan at Times Square



Ethan was afraid of a pigeon in Central Park. He was a little bit jumpy the whole time we were in the city.



We stayed at a KOA in PA.

Afterward, we went to visit the Bradford's in Hershey. We had a great time visiting with them. Ethan loved it there! This picture is at the park we went to for lunch. Ethan loves cantaloupe!

Facial hair and young chef..

James has his board exams on March 17th and 18th, so in order to save time every morning he has not been shaving. Actually he's never grown facial hair so it's just something to do. He's going to shave it off this coming Sunday, but I hope he grows it out again. It's growing on me. Really, I do like it. It looks good on him.




Ethan likes to help us with the dishes... well actually he likes to take the dishes out of the dishwasher and play with them on the floor. Last night he pretended to be cooking. It was fun to watch. Don't worry they went right back in the dishwasher.

We are so grateful that we have been able to go to the park twice this week! Hooray for springtime! And my daffodils are poking out. Hooray for springtime! It's just about time to begin our tomatoes. I'm so excited! I love the springtime!

Some cute pictures...

Ethan is such a ham sometimes and it is so cute!





Ethan loves smoothies... I think James does too...

This is what Ethan does while Mommy cleans...

So, for Christmas James gave me a new camera. This is him wishing he hadn't...

Christmas!!

Merry Christmas! This season is so busy and so wonderful! I love love love Christmastime! This week has been super busy. On Tuesday we had a party at our house. That took some work, but it was worth it to enjoy our friends. Wednesday we went to the Nutcracker. I loved it!! I don't think James loved it exactly, but he went with me anyway.

Tonight we had an enrichment meeting at the church. Some ladies sang a beautiful song. They sounded great! I can't remember the name of the song though. Tomorrow we're going to the see the Wildlights at the Zoo with the youth. Whew! And sometime between now and then we get to pack! Fun times in the Holt household. And on Saturday we get to fly across the country to be with family. That is was I am most excited about! (The being with family part, not necessarily the flying with Ethan:) ) Anyway, have a Merry Christmas!