Hiking Through Life

Virginia Beach Fun

We went to Virginia Beach in June and had a good time introducing Emily to the Atlantic Ocean. We only stayed one night so it was a short trip but it was fun. We got lots of good pictures and a few good videos. One of them I almost feel bad posting online but it is pretty funny once you get past the shock of it. We stayed in a nice hotel over looking the beach. Come to find out Marriott gives a pretty good military discount. We got 40% knocked off the room rate. They had a really nice pool but Emily Kate wasn’t to interested in swimming.

So here are the videos, make sure you watch the top one first…

To check out the pictures from our trip on our Shutterfly Album page click here. The pictures are only available to people who know me. If you know me you and want to view the pictures on that site just let me know and I’ll send you an invite.

Peek-A-Boo!

This video was taken on March 29th, 2009. What a joy! She actually played for a lot longer than what it shows in the video… we were just slow getting the camera out.

Visitors

Jen and I have played host to several visitors lately. My parents left on Monday after being here for 5 days. While they were here my Aunt Ione and Uncle Guy visited for 2 days. My brother and his wife will be here Saturday and will be staying for a week. A couple weeks ago we hosted my friend Joe who is going through Marine Corps Officer Training at Quantico. We’ve had some issues though… our main line drain backed up so we had a bit of sewage come up the drains in our basement. As you can imagine that was not very pleasant. Thankfully we have a good landlord and he had someone out the next day to fix it. Those plumbers charged him $330 dollars an hour for the work. What a rip. Along with an annoying housing association, and trying to figure out my taxes… March is turning out to be a busy month.

Here’s a few pictures from the grandparents visit:

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Emily is Growing!

Emily had her 6 month check up recently and she was 27 ¼ inches long and weighed 16 pounds. That put her in the 95th percentile for height! Jen and I were doing some cleaning over the weekend and we found some of the newborn size diapers she wore when we first brought her home and it was hard to believe she even fit into them.

Emily and Daddy