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Sunday, July 7, 2013

A HOT day in Annapolis!

We spent our first Saturday with my family showing them Annapolis and tasting its famous Maryland Crab cakes! We then headed to Sandy Point for a super fun afternoon at the beach...

The 4 cousins playing together in the sand

Adam is a fish in the water!

Antoine hesitant at first decided to get into the water and had a blast with Adam

Zelie posing like only a girl can do!

Victor had no apprehension of the beach... he loved the sand and the water too!

Celebrations!

Emmanuelle, Carlo and Zelie had barely arrived with Adam that we started the celebrations of the 4th of July!!

After an American feast with Hamburgers, tri-color salad, corn of the cob and giant festive cookie pie, we headed to DC to watch the fireworks on the Mall... I was quite hesitant taking our young kids to the crowd not knowing how late we would be getting back home. Mark convinced me that we had to do it since it would be the only chance for my family to see the fireworks in DC!

It was definitely worth going!

Mark and the boys had purchased some fireworks so we waited until the next evening to light them up...

Friday, June 14, 2013

Experiment!

My friend Sharon asked me if I could do a series of pictures of her baby boy Jackson in our backyard with a cute bucket filled with bubble batch...

It did not turn out the way we thought it would!! =)

But Victor was very interested in the bucket and started playing with the water. Once he was soaking wet, I decided to remove his clothes and try a serie of pictures with him in the bucket...

I love these pictures!! Thank you Sharon for the idea!! =)

Saturday, June 8, 2013

And now... Superman is here!

Monday, June 3, 2013

Welcome to Cub scouts!

Adam is so excited to be starting Cub Scouts.

He had his first meeting right before leaving for France.

Here he is in his Cub Scout attire!

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Precious memories...

Victor and Papili
Victor asked to wear my hair do... I promise!!
That gave me a glimpse of what a little Taylor girl would look like! =)

The boys wanted to show Aunt Karen Babbling beauty - but Victor fell in the water... !

The boys earned another outing from doing their chores
TUTTI FRUITI!

Reading LE LOUP!

Watching Rugby...

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Special days...

Shortly after my Mom arrived, we celebrated Mother's day together...

... and my Dad arrived the day before his birthday...

Not to forget that Adam also turned 8 while my parents were here...

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Adam's baptism

It is hard to believe that we have a child who is old enough to be baptized...!
Adam was blessed to be baptized on his 8th birthday =)

Karen (Mark's sister) surprised Adam by flying overnight to be here just in time for the event!!

While waiting for the service to start...

Gathering of friends afterwards...

Friday, May 24, 2013

Virginia is for LOVERS!

Mark and I were going to celebrate our 10-year anniversary in Costa Rica - but after doing some homework on the area I realized that it was going to be the rainy season in May (when my parents were coming to be present here for Adam's baptism) so we decided to go to Northern California instead and use our Spirit Airlines miles to fly there. I would show Mark my mission and its beautiful areas, visit old friends and discover the Redwoods together.

But it did not happen... Once I got my dad's travel dates and looked into booking our award tickets, I could not find reasonable award tickets with our dates... I shared the disappointed news with Mark who then had a great idea - what if we stayed in Virginia and discovered waterfalls?... after all, Virginia is for lovers!!

We had such a fantastic week going from one spectacular waterfall to a charming one... What a refreshing and romantic week...