Ice Skating

For Christmas, Gaby gifted the kids ice skating in Colonial Williamsburg! They were so, so excited. The day after we got back from northern Virginia, everyone came down to ice skate together.

They all had a great time and did quite well!

Twins on ice:

There were breaks, and even hot chocolate. The kids skated for several hours! I was impressed at how well they did.

Thank you, Gaby!! Enjoy this video of everyone skating:

New Years

For New Years this year we hung out with our friends - the kids watched Wicked and the adults played games.

We had dinner together...

And then rang in the New Year!

We went straight to bed and then woke up the next morning for our annual neighborhood polar plunge!

This year, though, after the plunge, they opened up our neighborhood pool (which was heated to 86 degrees!) to swim and warm up after! It was a very fun new part of the tradition!

Polar plunge:

Happy 2025!

Arlington and DC

The morning after Christmas, we headed to Arlington to visit Papa Laser.

The kids placed stones on his headstone because we found out this was a "signal" that he had been visited recently.

From there our family went to visit my grandmother Mary Ann.

While we were there we decided to head across the bridge to DC to see some of the things we didn't see on our last two visits there (spring break 2024 and March 2022). We mainly stuck around the Tidal Basin.

We saw the George Mason Memorial:

We saw the Jefferson Monument:

We also went by the MLK Memorial:

We went to the FDR Memorial:

It was a great day - though very cold!