What Nate Saw

To the right are a couple of pictures from Nate Selgrath. He grabs the camera every so often and starts clicking away. Here's Nate with his camera:

Hope's Spring Concert

Check this out over on my Disney Blog. You'll see why.

http://themazdisneyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mdps-disney-themed-spring-concert.html

No pictures of Hope came out. Here is the best

Father Daughter Dance

Hope and I attended a Father/Daughter dance this past Saturday. It was run by the Girl Scouts and held at the local middle school. It was a very fun event. We were having fun before we even got there. We were taking pictures in the back yard. The First being the picture for relatives, the second being the 'Brady Bunch Pose'. We made it to the dance registered, got our supplies and went in. Don't forget, it's a Scout run event, so you always get supplies. Parts for the crafta activities and tickets to the Sundae Bar. Hope even got a patch for the event. The School Caf was decorated for the dance and looked great. There were plenty of snacks, drinks and lots to do. In a nutshell, this is the training ground for all girls and how they will act at the proms and wedding receptions in their future. The video shows how it looked early on.After some snacks and a walk around
seeing who was there we made our way out to the craft table and put together a Aloha Picture frame, a Hawaiian Lei, and a nifty cool DAD keychain. After finishing the crafts we did a little dancing. We both agreed that was enough of that and we moved onto the Sundae bar. Mmmmmm. There were some more games and the infamous Limbo dance. I do think I remember hearing the Chicken Dance at one point also. When the dance was over we had every intention of going home and Wii'ing out, but we were both bushed and settled on a movie. This was a very fun time. And just think, the early on plans for this weekend were to be camping up at Knoebles. Well, it rained there over the weekend so this was the perfect choice. I hope Hope(i love using her name next to hope) asks me again next year.

It seems like I am adding posts only after Holidays at my parents. I'll try to break that habit...tomorrow. We spent Easter at the 'rents in North Carolina. We took some time on the way down and stopped at the Smithsonian's Air and Space extension museum located next to Dulles airport. It was a fabulous show of air and space craft. I could have stayed all day, the family decided 5 hours was enough. You can see some of our pictures below. Here is a video of the walk into the Space Area. That's the Enterprise Space Shuttle.


If you go I strongly recommend taking the first Docent Tour that starts around 10:30. Very knowledgeable retired gentlemen take groups of 10-15 on tours of the museum. It was about an hour and a half and gave us a good understanding of what was located in the museum. It was big. There was also a fake Air Traffic Control Tower that we watched the planes at Dulles taking off and landing from. We made it to Ed and Nancy's and had a great time. Nanny came over and we played cards and talked about the old days. Check out these two pictures I have courtesy of Liz. To the left is Fred Mazzilli holding his 6-8 month old son, Eddie(That would be Ed Sr.). To the right is Fred and Gertrude(Nanny). Gertie's holding Ed and that's Lorraine sitting in front of Poppy. Look for some more Posts on what we are doing this spring. With Baseball, Softball, and swimming starting up again, we're pretty busy. If you like what you see, or want to add anything just leave a comment below.

Thanksgiving at the 'Rents

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. We went down to the parent’s house in North Carolina. Just us this year. We saw Nanny and had a great time. We even did some target shooting. Their not in the NRA yet, but it’s good to know that they have some idea to what is going on with a gun. Here are some pictures.

Their First Mickey Ears

I went over to Liz's a couple of weeks ago and dropped off the kids first set of Mickey Mouse Ears. They loved them and wore them for a while. Each had their names on the back in gold thread. Quinn and Hope still have their first ears also. A very fun time by all. If you look real close you can see a very pregnant Liz in the background. Also, the bottom picture of Emerson was taken by Nathan. He likes to take pictures with my camera whenever I go over there. The other one of his mom and sister was taken by him also.