April 2009 – Page 4 – Just regular folks.

Mormon temple on 495.

When I was little, I always wondered who got to live in the castle along the freeway.

Hooray for spring!

Jeremy packed lunch:

Biked to the park:

Had some fun in the sun:

Ate our lunch:

Jeremy and Vince are headed to tonight’s Washington Ballet’s performance of Peter Pan at the Kennedy Center. (Ruby thought she could go too – but unfortunately we didn’t have a third ticket and the Kennedy Center is a strictly canine free zone).

I couldn’t get a proper photo of the matching cuties because there was some last minute consternation with Vince about having to wear leather shoes instead of green dinosaur rain boots which was aggravated (unbeknownst by me or Jeremy) by an intense need to pee. Anyways, we convinced him that he needed to wear the leather shoes because it was a fancy place, so fancy that Obama had been there with Shasha and Malia a few weeks ago. Vince asked if Obama was going to be there tonight. I said that the Obamas were in Europe tonight and probably wouldn’t be there.

Spring (break) is here.

Yvonne, our sitter, is in lovely San Francisco this coming week. The kids are off of school and we’ve taken the week off of work to go on vacation! Many months ago, I suggested that maybe this was the year that we head down to Disneyworld, but somehow we didn’t get our act together in time, so now we are going to do a variation of a stay-cation. Let’s see, we have spring cleaning planned, a trip to the ballet, some kite flying, perhaps a road trip to see some national/state parks, some medical appointments and what else? Who knows, we will let moment carry us.

So I started some spring cleaning today and I found this in my very much loved banana guard: