Happy Birthday, Tio!

We celebrated Tio's birthday with a trip to the Baltimore Aquarium...since we bought a year long membership and we've only been ONCE this year, we thought it was high time we made another trip down there & I'm so glad we did!

The inner harbor is such a great place to visit, I don't know why we don't go more often. The aquarium is an awesome destination; the kids could wander around there forever. They were especially digging the jellyfish exhibit and the moray eel. We even got to see the stingrays being fed. Super cool!

And of course they LOVE the dolphin show...hence the expression on Joey's face...pure love, no wait...he just looks like that sometimes :)

We finished our trip with dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (thank you to the waitress for snapping this lovely family pic), where Tio got a special piece of birthday cheesecake! Yum!!! Here's to the start of another great year!!!

Dash For Drew

Here we are...at another "fun run". We're lucky enough to live in an area that has lots and LOTS of "fun" running. I love it, I just wish I were better at it :) It's always nice when the kids can participate in a fun run/walk, and this is a really special one; the Dash For Drew. This race benefits the Drew Michael Taylor foundation which does a lot of good in our community.

Most of the races the kids run are 1 mile or less, but this one is a 2 miler. I signed all three kids up, thinking that I would stay in back and walk with Claire, and Joey and Emma would run ahead at their own pace. Little did I know that Claire had other plans!!! She took off at a dead sprint...and didn't stop running for the entire first mile. Her first mile split was 10:31...not too shabby for a 4 year old. She slowed down a little for the second mile, but still finished the race with a time of 23:30. I think we have a future runner in the family!