i got the bright idea that isaac and i should go camping this weekend. i wasn’t sure where. or if he would agree to this plan. or what kind of trouble i was getting myself into. when i picked him up from school friday, i asked what he thought about it and he half heartedly […]
lid kid adventures
memorial (satur)day family tanglewood visit.

we kicked off our memorial day weekend with a little outing to tanglewood park. apparently, we did the same thing last year. this time, though, we brought lucy along, to test out the new dog park. before lidkids, we used to take lucy to dog parks pretty regularly. back then, she was a young pup […]
charlotte family saturday.

with no pressing engagements or cakes or other such things to suck up our time this weekend, we decided to head south the the queen city of charlotte north carolina to check out the discovery place museum and possibly ikea. we’ve never been with our own kids, but i went with jake about 7 or […]
patterson farms IV

yesterday, we made our annual-ish trip to patterson farms for some fall time fun. and i took exactly one jillion pictures to document it. last year, the eating situation was disastrous. we waited in line for like an hour for some terrible hot dogs and hamburgers. so, we decided to eat on the way this […]
old salem harvest day

derek had to work all day yesterday, so i decided that the kids and i were going to do something fun and get out of the house. after exploring various options, we settled on staying local and heading to old salem for harvest day. we invited derek’s mom to hang with us and that she […]
field trips

on thursday, anna and i made a trip to the children’s museum. i’ve been trying to do a few more fun things with her while isaac is in school, rather than run errands and/or clean and/or be lazy. you know, like i did when it was just him. so, we met jess and her terrible […]
it’s dixie classic fair time again!

yesterday, i picked ike up from school at lunch time and we went to the dixie classic fair. it’s been raining non-stop for like two weeks. or at least a few days, so this was the first nice-ish day since the fair opened. first things first. lunch. isaac was convinced we should do the bumper […]
dan nicholas park

a week or so ago, jess and i dragged the kiddos out to dan nicholas park in salsbury. we probably should have gone online to see what attractions would be open, because the answer to that question was: none. none of the attractions were open. so, we hit up the playground. the train. and the […]
field day

today was isaac’s field day. yes. five weeks into the school year. it was a beautiful day, so anna and i decided to head out and watch his class play… (he’s the kid in the yellow shirt in all of these pics). after a long search, we finally found them at the oversized basketball hoop, […]
tweetsie with buddies.

our pal graelyn is turning three soon. to celebrate, a set of her grandparents came to town and they all went to tweetsie for the day on saturday. oh. and we also got invited. it worked out nicely because derek has to work so much, and it gave him some time to work, without feeling […]