Knights and Animals!!!

 Last Saturday, we went and had ourselves a rather impromptu adventure.  We just needed to do something exciting and fun and this is what we came up with.  We got on the road early, and headed to he National Zoo in DC!!  It was a great zoo and a fairly nice day :) I loved seeing the cute, not so little panda bear!!

 The kids both said their favorite animal was the sea lion!!  The tank was pretty amazing and huge with a giant under water observation area.

 The lions were beautiful, too!!

 We had a great morning at the zoo, despite the NO parking AT ALL issue and the large crowds... However, the main event was when we had dinner at Medieval Times!!  I know...nerdy...but we had such a blast!!  Naturally, Jane had to dress up like a princess and we managed to convince Beckham to wear his knight costume the whole time!! 

 Our darling kids were a huge hit!!:) Here they are with the main knight and announcer- he was great :)

 We had great seats!! We were routing for the yellow and red knight-hehe!!

 The show was pretty amazing and kept our kids entertained the ENTIRE time!! They loved seeing the amazing horses do wonderful tricks...they were beautiful.

 The dinner was yummy, even though you had to eat it with your hands- which our kids certainly didn't mind!! We had roasted chicken, BBQ ribs, Potatoes, garlic bread, and tomato soup!!

 Jane was absolutely thrilled to have our knight throw a beautiful flower to her- hehe :)

 Here are some pictures of the knights competing in "the games".

 jousting...

 sword fighting...

This day turned out to be a lot of fun even though our night lost miserably :)!!  I love impromptu adventures :)

Jane's Art Show!!

 Jane had an art show this past Monday!!  It was based on the "Winnie the Witch" book series that they have been reading in her Pre-K class!!  My personal favorite piece was the life sized "witch" version of Jane!!  It was oh so cute :)

 Jane's beaded butterfly was a close second!!!

 This whole wall, which had the kids' butterflies on it, was Winnie's house!! They kids did the flowers at the bottom as well!

 These were amazingly cute, too! Jane sculpted and bejeweled her own pair of Winnie's glasses:)

 This was Jane's favorite piece of art- her rainbow witch cat!!

 I loved the "stained glass" butterflies.  All the art projects were so diverse and creative. I love Jane's school!!

 Here is Jane with a few of the darling books her art show was based of off!!

We are so proud of our little artist!!

I have alot of catching up to do....

 I know it has been awhile since I posted...and I have been so anxious to update my blog- cause so much has been going on.  But, I lost our camera cord to upload pictures, so I couldn't.  We had to order one from Amazon and it finally came!!  So here is a little catch-up:)

In February, I was in charge of the "Great to be 8" program for the second year in a row.  Well, I put a lot of effort into these little programs so I took some pictures of my work this time so I can always remember it!! I had 12 kids who needed to be invited.  Here are some of the cute little invitations I made.

 As a gift to the kids, I made these binders for each child with lots of fun pages on baptism inside to read and fill out so they can always remember their special day :) It took forever, but they turned out so cute.

 

 I had a tree and growth theme going here, so as a display I made this big tree which hung up at the front of the room.  Each leaf had a a goofy and a smiley picture of each child.  It was pretty cute!!

 I am in my seventh month of preschool with Beckham and his little friends.  It is crazy...but so much fun!!

 Here is my darling little class...

 My brother Bryan, his sweet wife Wendy and their cute son Jack who have lived in Brooklyn for the past year or so just moved... and I am sooooooo sad about it. So we went to visit them in February while my mom was it town.  It was such a fun trip and we had a blast together.  I am really going to miss them :(  Here we are eating at the famous restaurant, Serendipity!! Yum!!

 Here's the whole gang.  I miss this already!!

 We went to the Central Park Zoo!!  It was a lovely day and so much fun.

 The zoo had a kids portion that was a lot of fun. 

 Beckham loved pretending to be a spider on the spider web.

 Later, we ate at the Hard Rock Cafe...a long time tradition of the Harper family!!  It was the BEST!!

 Of course we made a trip to the Disney store and Toys R Us!!  I am really going to miss these quick trips to NY and spending time with my brother and his family.  It was a very special time for me to spend so much time with my wonderful brother.  I haven't been able to do that for a very long time and he is the BEST and I have been really grateful for this time with him and his fam!!

 My good friend, Christa came back to Dover for a day or so to meet her hubby who came back from deployment!!!  It was so fabulous to see her again!!

 I have met and become friends with some amazing ladies here is Dover!!

 Jane got a book from the library called Fancy Nancy, Tea Party!!  This book inspired Jane to really want to have a tea party- a  fancy one!!!

 So we made fancy plates and place mats together and i planned a family tea party for dinner!! The kids helped me a lot to make this party, extra fancy!!!

 The kids dressed up as a knight and a princess and we had a fabulous tea party!! We had finger foods, goodies and even a yummy fizzy drink with sherbet in it!!!  We all had a blast!!

So that is the update on us-sorry it took so long!!