QUITE A DAY!!

7:30 a.m. Leaving Rockville for Williamsburg
Arrive 11:00 and a wonderful lunch with Ed.
Missing Dollie, Mom and Dad...
but suspect they were smiling down on us.
After a walk down Duke of Gloucester Street around 3ish...
It was time to head for FORD COUNTRY!!!
to see the Richmond branch of the family...
Shelby and William love having their grandparents visit.
5:30--time to head north...an unexpected stop at McDonalds
where my battery died.
Thanks to some nice Virginians with jumper cables,
I was soon on my way...
7:00 o'clock stop to see Keaton and Beckett's new little sister!!
Such a sweet family...serving the Lord in Fredricksburg..
Check out their church plant---Epic Life
9:30 p.m. Home again Home again jiggity jig.

EASTER

WHAT IS THIS YOUNG MAN DOING???
WHAT ARE THESE YOUNG LADIES AWAITING?
AN EASTER EGG HUNT...
THANKS TO "SAMMIE" RABBIT...
IT TOOK THEM AWHILE...
LOOKING HIGH AND LOW...
TO FIND THEM ALL...


SAM DID A GREAT JOB OF KEEPING THE GIRLS BUSY...
UNTIL THE STEAK AND HAM WERE READY...
AND IT WAS TIME TO CELEBRATE THE DAY
WE HAD A COUPLE OF SUPRISE GUESTS...
A DELICIOUS CARROT CAKE...
AND A GROUP SHOT IN FRONT OF THE DOGWOOD TREES...
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THE PICTURE ABOVE AND BELOW?
SOMEONE GOT TICKLED!!!

FIELD TRIPS, FLOWERS & FUTBALL

TULIPS FROM OREGON (Thanks Deb)
made my birthday bright!!

And just when they lost their bloom...
Look what my girls, Sarah and Lauren, brought me!
Then it was time to watch a little soccer...
Becky maybe one of Sam's biggest fans...
but he got a lot....
of cheers that night for his 3 goals!!
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What a treat to take 2 of my Journalism students to the
Shirley Povich Sports Writers' Workshop
at the University of Maryland last week...
Where Ryan even got to interview
Kevin Blackistone for our newspaper.
More pictures of conference here
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THEN A FIELD TRIP TO THE NEWSEUM in D.C.
with 21 of my young journalists...
What a great place to visit...more pictures of this field trip here
with my favorite co-chaperon---Chung Hae
--all the way from Florida

Some of the students on the balcony...
A piece of the Twin Towers...
and a piece of the Berlin Wall...
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ONE FIELD TRIP IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THIS TEACHER..
A visit to the Natural History & American Indian Museums
with the greatest group of 7th graders!!
For more pictures (taken by Morgan) look here.