Last Saturday we met up with Mandy, Paul and their adorable twin boys, Caleb and Lucas, at the NASCAR Grill in Hampton. After dinner we walked over to Bass Pro with the boys so they could check out the fish. It was so nice to have the three boys together!
Trevor loves to play with our two dogs at home, but since they are both much larger than he is, the playing is often short-lived. For the 4th of July, we hung out with Andrea and Chris; swam and grilled out over here and then went back to their place in the evening to watch the fireworks from the top of their parking garage.
Andrea and Chris have a pug named Gizmo. Trevor LOVES Gizmo. He always wants to play with him when we are there and this time, he decided that he was going to take Gizzy for a walk….Too cute!
I had every intention of this post being a “Father’s Day Facelift,” but projects around here never seem to get done that quickly.
Father’s Day weekend we started giving the front of our house a little facelift….just to make it look a little better/fresher/newer.
So, we started by painting the porch and eventually moved on to painting the shutters and doors. We finished our project last night—just in time for this post (because, I must have a clever title to the post, right?…..).
House before:
House after:
Shane is very proud of what he calls “his little piece of America.” (I am super proud of the outfit he has on—haha!)
Last Monday, Shane got off of work at 10am, so once he was home and we were finished with lunch, we all headed out to Sandbridge to go to the beach. Trevor wasn’t a huge fan of getting into the water, but he loved hanging out under our big umbrella and playing down in the sand with his toys!
I will take this opportunity to celebrate that there are only 26 1/2 days until our beach vacation in Kure Beach, NC. YAY!
This past weekend, my brother graduated from high school. Congratulations Woodbridge Senior High School Class of 2010! (Although, 2010 will never be as awesome as the Class of 2003—if any of my fellow graduates even read this :) )
Shane had Friday off, so we headed up to Woodbridge around 10 and arrived up there right before 1pm….traffic wasn’t too bad, just your typical I-64 nonsense. Once we arrived, Trevor got settled into Grammy’s house (read= getting into anything he possibly could) and we all relaxed. My brother’s girlfriend stopped by for a bit and then the two of them headed off to GMU to see the Gar-Field (look, I even give the school the dignity of their hyphen Liz) graduation at the Patriot Center. Grammy, Grampy, Shane, Trevor and I ran out to Lowes to get some stuff for projects that Shane could help my dad out with and then came home. The five of us took a walk after we got back and took Trevor to a playground by the house that had a wooden train and small slide/jungle gym. Trevor had tons of fun playing on the train and going down the slide. Of course, my camera died before we made it to the slide, but here are some pictures of Trevor playing on the train: 
Once we got back to the house, Trevor got a bath and we put him down for the night. Shane and I were then able to go out for a couple of hours to have some alone time. This was the 4th time we have ever gone somewhere without him (one of those time's was when we closed on the house, go figure) in the past 15 months, so we were really excited to have a couple of hours to ourselves.
Saturday morning was my brother’s graduation ceremony, so my mom, dad and I headed over to the high school for it. Shane stayed home with Trevor—we figured the sun and heat would have been too much for him since it was taking place on the football field. After the ceremony we went to lunch together and then Christopher went off to graduation parties for the rest of the day. 
Sunday everyone went to the 9am mass at SEAS where all of the senior/graduate altar servers were serving for mass. It was a group of seven of them who had been serving since they were in 3rd grade. Fr. Searby, the parochial vicar at SEAS, joked as he spoke about them, that now they are off to college and done serving, that the average height of his altar servers was going to drop drastically and he would no longer feel self-conscious standing next to them. He had a point—all the guys are pretty tall, there must have been something in Lake Ridge’s water back in 1992 when they were all born. 
After church Christopher went back out with his girlfriend and the rest of us spent the day hanging out at the house, and Trevor went swimming in a little pool on the back deck. He loved it! He has fun in our pool at home, but he always has to be in a float or held by someone, so I am sure he really loved the extra freedom. 
We had a great weekend trip and a super easy drive home, Trevor stayed awake for most of it. Once we got home, Trevor went right to sleep and Shane and I did some unpacking before we did the same.
Congratulations Christopher! Good luck at WVU!
…..from the heat!
**please note that this post was written over a week ago**
The heatwave that had settled into our area for the past two weeks or so has finally broken and the temperatures have dropped from the mid-nineties to the lower eighties. Thank goodness! Now we can spend more time playing outside and not have to deal with a super-cranky Trevor by the time the afternoon rolls around.
This evening (Tuesday) we got finished with cleaning up from dinner earlier than usual so we headed out for a walk. Once we got back from the walk, Trevor played in the front yard for a bit (we are trying to get him over his fear of—get this—grass).
