Category: Holidays

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Halloween 2018

Curie was Hermione, and Elia was the evil queen (the costume Curie wore two years ago – “I am the evil queen, this used to be Curie’s, but it is too small for her.”

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Hoagland Halloween 2018

Each year we attend the Bella’s birthday party which is a crazy Halloween party with an elaborate haunted house. We have in the past had elaborate costumes to attend. This year, with everyone being sick we did not do a meta costume instead were a part of the theme much like we did in 2016. The haunted house this year was a Castle, so instead of medieval costumes like the Hoaglands had we came as contemporary royal dignitaries visiting the castle – easy costumes with a tuxedo (already had), girls in princess costumes (already had) and Erin re-purposing her dress from 2010 when she was Princess Peach (note after two kids, it still fits!). Our best year was still probably 2014, but we were just glad to make it. Oh and these are not the kids’ costumes for Halloween.

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Pretty in Purple

The new house has gotten a little in the way of family time. Thank goodness for a chance to do something together Labor Day weekend. We tried Yang Kang Street Food in Pentagon City with Susie, Isabella, and Olivia. We had a great time, food was okay, pottery painting was fun, but ice cream and Doodlehoppers took the cake (see Olivia’s dinosaur tail). Photo credit to Isabella stabilized by Susie.

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“And the Rockets’ Red Glare…” July 4, 2018

“And the rockets’ red glare…” The obligatory July 4th fireworks photo. On a whim we decided to book a room at the Le Meridien in Rosslyn. The Iwo Jima Memorial was purportedly a good place to see fireworks. We only brought the Canon G7X Mark II and a walking stick for stability. Kids were crawling over Albert so this is the only really good one that is in focus and does not look like a post card.