treking

today was the big day - we were off to trek! jt and asa came over last night and the boys stayed up way too late. i finally mad them go to bed after 11. i was up late getting christian's pioneer stories ready for him. 

2 things i wish:

*i didn't procrastinate

*the kids would be at least a little bit responsible for themselves 

we left this morning at 6:30, 30 minutes after we wanted to. :( we realized that the bags weren't going to fit so we grabbed our thule to attach to the trailer hitch, but we couldn't find the key. double :( we got to mccombs where laura had made breakfast burritos to send the boys off with full bellies. and grabbed our burritos to go.

we needed gas and the boys voted for a wawa run.

i captioned this one "breaking amish."

jt said i should have captioned it "at least no one looked at us funny." 

true!

and the boys loved it. there is safety in numbers and they were safe with their friends, so they ate that up. as they waited outside they were approached by a man wanting to join their amish gang. he said he could be their mascot. they loved it. :) 

since we got a late start and then a sloooow trip at wawa, we didn't have a lot of extra time. we hit the typical beltway traffic and i was feeling the stress! 4 years ago when i drove to trek, i dropped the kids off late, and i didn't want a repeat. thankfully, even though it got a little hairy as we got close to the marriott ranch because *shocker* i got lost, we made it on time!

it was so gorgeous! the day was cool and overcast and the rolling hills are just beautiful.

silly shot!

handsome, excited, happy boys!!!

 and a #tbt

hard to believe this was 4 years ago! craziness!

and they're off!

and this is how they left the jolly green giant. piglets! i brought my running shoes and would have loved to run through the breathtaking countryside, but it had started to sprinkle and i really didn't know where to park, or where to run for that matter, so i headed home.

the stake has a fb page where they are adding pictures, so i snagged a few. 

a wagon ready to be built!

there they go!

and the natives.

i haven't seen any of christian yet and i can't wait to see who is in his family!

we got home around 2 and naps were had by all. then we got an exciting phone call! frankie got into prek at our neighborhood school!!! and the pm class too! yaaaaaaaaaay! she is so excited! she also said she's "a little bit scared to go into that classroom." she's gonna rock it! and yes, those are goggles on her head, and no, we were not swimming.

this was the scenery on my run tonight. 

bee-you-tiful!