Holiday Sunrise

Old town tree up with our trees as well.

First Acceptance

St. John's would like Dylan to be a Jonnie Rugby stud. First acceptance from 3 applications sent. Congrats baby.

Turkey Trot

Some of the girls who did the early turkey trot in Alexandria yesterday morning. All wearing the turkey shirts Nicole made this week.

Three New Trees

Had some landscaping done this week and added these new trees next to the wood pile, back towards the cemetery. Perfect for white lights.

Real Half

Nicole got up at 4:15am to meet her friends in Richmond to run a real half marathon race. It actually started whenever you showed up but it had a real course, unlike the virtual marathons she's been doing. Great day for running.

Dawg

Sam committed to be a Drake University Bulldog on Saturday night. Exciting times and the realization the boys are heading out into the world in a few short months.

Christmas Sweater

Nicole helped Rocky try on his new Christmas sweater and bow tie at Robbies last night. He's ready for the holidays.

Bulldog?

Only time will tell. Sam enjoyed his visit to Des Moines and Drake this weekend and may decide to be a Bulldog in the next week or so. He's doing an official football video visit with them now and we had a perfect day to do the self guided campus tour yesterday.

Robbie and Rocky

Visited Robs and Rocky tonight after a full day of touring Drake and Des Moines. It was nice seeing her and the house where we used to come as kids and hang with the cousins. Everyone masked up, except Rocky.

Post Halloween Gathering

Lots of lit pumpkins for an early morning run.

Birthday Friends

The boys and their friends after a nice dinner in old town. It was the real birthday night after an actual birthday night with football games going til 10:30.

And.......Biden/Harris. Hopefully the games of the current admin won't make this transition difficult.

Happy Birthday

The boys turned 18 today. Some sleepless nights all that time ago but then again, I have trouble sleeping now at times, hoping they are alright.

It's clear that the hair I have left is much more gray these days from all the fun. 

I love you boys and look forward to watching you become adults. 

Sent from my iPhone

Vote

She voted weeks ago, I voted this morning and waited about 30 minutes. Now we wait.

Spooky

Some nieghbors go all in for Halloween. Nicole and I walked the hood after dark and found a ton of great decorations and plenty of goals and goblins. The boys both out and at different parties.

Pumpkin Warming

It's getting down to 39 degrees tonight. Perfect Halloween weather.

The Patch

Grabbing some pumpkins after a hard day of home schooling.

Concentration

Wet and cold but he had a great first practice.

Marine Corp Marathon

Nicole ran a virtual MCM today with a small group of friends. Virtual in the sense that it was not run with thousands of others with a common route. It was 26.2 miles around the streets of northern Virginia. They decide to meet up at the traditional ending point and celebrate.

Interception

Our friend Carrie got a few pictures of the last flag game in probably forever. Here's Sam intercepting a ball intended for the guy it was intended for with his mouth wide open in dis-belief. We lost this game but the boys had fun with each other and the other team. Sam knew a few of the Panthers from football and basketball and the smack talking was thick but well meaning. The Panthers are by far the best team in this little flag league but it was a fun thing to do on Saturday mornings in the time of COVID.

Flag Fellas

They didn't win a lot of games but they finally had the whole crew together for one last go. Time to burn those Packers jerseys.