April
April brought warmer weather to Portsmouth and lots of preparation for our big move to Bethesda. We celebrated Easter with a big Sunday lunch and egg hunt with family and friends at our house in Portsmouth. We made a trip up to Bethesda to house hunt and then spent the rest of the month doing all of those things in Hampton Roads that we always said we wanted to do.
Easter Sunday with Family & Friends in Portsmouth
Hunt Club Farm Petting Zoo in Virginia Beach with Great Friends
A Play date with the Duncan boys in Raleigh, North Carolina
An evening bike ride through the Norfolk Botanical Gardens followed by ice cream at Doumar's "Inventor of the 1st Ice Cream Cone"!
A Day at the Virginia Zoo with Mommy & Daddy
May
For us May was a month of celebration.
Celebrating Mother's Day in Lumberton with my boys and of course my Mommy, too!
Celebrating my sister Laura's graduation from Campbell School of Law and her 25th Birthday!
Celebrating our survival of Internal Medicine Residency
(the hubbies were there too!)
Celebrating 4 Generations of the Farrell/Graning Family at Carolina Beach Memorial Day Week
June
For us June was a month of mixed emotions. We were excited to start a new chapter of our lives, excited to be moving back to a city that we love but sad to be leaving our first home (Liam's first home) and lots and lots of great friends.
Moving Day
Celebrating Papa's 70th Birthday & Father's Day
Celebrating Father's Day with Daddy at our new house
(This was the first time Rolf had seen our new house in person!)
Rolf's Graduation from Internal Medicine Residency
Hiking the Billy Goat Trail on our first weekend in DC
July
We spent most of July getting settled into our new house, our new neighborhood, our new city, and our new life. Rolf started fellowship on July 5th and luckily for us his first month was a relatively easy one. We were able to spend a lot of time as a family and even got to take a few little weekend adventures to visit family and friends.
Our first trip into DC to meet friends visiting from Portsmouth
(We took the metro or "train" which Liam loved and since it was only 100 that day we had a great time.)
A Trip to Roanoke, Virginia to visit Uncle Charlie and celebrate Catherine & Tack's Wedding
Exploring our big "back yard"!
(We have a field behind our house which provides endless hours of enjoyment for Liam and Sadie)
Visiting Dode & Doda, who also live in Maryland
A Few Days at the Beach with Mimi & Papa
Gina's Weekend 2010
(my first weekend away from Liam)
August
In August we continued to try to settle into our new life which meant longer work hours and weekend call for Rolf.
Helping Daddy around the house
Waiting for Daddy to come home from work
Continued exploration of our big back yard & neighborhood parks
A Night at the Montgomery County Fair
September
September brought more celebrating, more traveling, and a lot more fun!
Celebrating Mary Anne's 60th Birthday in New York City
An afternoon at Butler's Orchard riding tractors, playing in the hay, and picking pumpkins!
I love, love, love reading about your new adventure. I've missed your blogging and am glad to be able to read about what you have been up to. Ya'll have been busy. Love you!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back friend- I love how you played catch up. Dare I say you might have missed something in all of the celebrations?
ReplyDeleteLiam is getting soooo big and so handsome! I love seeing him with Rolf and always look forward to those brief moments when you get to be on the other side of the camera my beautiful friend :)
Missing you so much and counting the days until we get to be together!!!!
Great pictures! (...are you sure you need the upcoming conference?) :) Hope there's time to see you in a couple of weeks when you're not learning how to become a photographer extroadinaire! :)
ReplyDeletetotally worth the wait!! was glad to catch up on all that's been going on in your life! super great blog!!
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