The big news is that 2 days after we decide to not buy a new house somebody goes through our house and decides that they would like to live here for the next year, that they'd like to pay us full rent with no haggling and well... they'd like us out by Aug 1st. So aside from moving in with my parents in the very near future, I'm not sure what all this means. We have no clue if we will in fact buy a house in the next few months, next spring or anytime. We are willing to hear any arguments/thoughts anyone might have re:any of the previous.
In other news, the stairs are progressing. Here's a pic of Kevin showing them off. He managed to get a few more in that night and then I glued them, plugged them and have started staining them. Though, considering we need them to go into and out of the house, this process is going to have be done in stages and hopefully (fingers crossed!!) no one will step and leave a blurb while things are drying.
I've also started trying out cakes. This is actually my second cake. I made it for mom's birthday. Super yummy!! The marshmellow frosting layer is my favorite, then maybe the cake. Though, the chocolate frosting turned out well too.
This was my first attempt at the rainbow cake. I made it for Father's Day. Apparently it is NOT a good idea to mix up baking soda and baking powder.
So I tried it again and brought it to Jon's place. This one turned out well! It took us three nights to finish the cake but no one complained. (well, at least not to me.)
Now on to pics of our trip to DC area. This first is the kids at the National Zoo. It was very hot and as such not many of the animals were out. However the kids found the misty showers VERY fun.
You might have to trust me on this one, this is the kids at the Baltimore Aquarium. They are standing behind a set of shark teeth. Neither Jon or I had a 'real' camera and my phone does not have a flash. Trust me, my kids with shark teeth.
My camera phone does work well outside though. Here we are getting ready to go for a ride around a very small enclosed area of the bay before the aquarium. The kids thought this was SUPER COOL for the first 10 minutes. Then for the next 20 Jon and I pedaled around.
But seriously, how can you not stop to ride a purple dragon around the bay???
Here is Rachel, Jon and I post-prostate cancer race or the 'Dash for Dad'. This was a 4 mile run in which I got the pleasure of veering off at the 1 mile marker to put a tie on, finish the race with a tie and then exchange if for a free mug! Well worth wearing a tie for 3 miles. And, the race had a free beer ticket afterward. I think I need to find more races with free beer tickets. Also, I did this one in under 12 min so it was nice to be a little faster. (That's under 12 minutes per mile, not under 12 min for the whole race. That would be amazing!)
After the race (and showers for Jon and I) we headed out to Dulles airport and checked out some planes. This was the kids favorite. I'd like to say because they admired how sleek and well made it is but truthfully they liked it best because it was in the movie "Transformers".
And here is a picture of Jon not picking his nose while driving.
And here is another picture of Jon driving.
I also have pictures of the back of Mom's head and my book as well as movies of traffic not moving if anyone is interested. I'm not sure it was the brightest idea to give Mason a camera phone while we were stuck in traffic. =)
