After a morning of church, Easter baskets, egg hunts and brunch at Talulla, we headed over to my parents for the afternoon. And can you believe it, the Easter Bunny came to their house too! Ella searched and searched for more eggs, while Owen hung out with Papa and Grandma: The Easter Bunny was definitely [...]
By Sara | November 27, 2010
We celebrated Turkey Day by hosting my sister Diana, her husband Ken, my Aunt Anne, Uncle Curt, and cousin Dave for dinner. Andrew’s brother Jeff, his girlfriend, and her daughter rounded out the guest list for dessert. I did a lot of delegating and pointing in the right direction, while Andrew did the bulk of [...]
As things are winding down now, we wanted to take a quick look back at the last two days – hope everyone had good Christmases and didn’t get too much coal in the stockings! Ella spent most of Christmas Eve with Grandma, Papa, Uncle Jeff (and the dog, turtle and frog), with Sara and I [...]
By Sara | December 1, 2009
We went to visit family in North Carolina en route to visiting more family in South Carolina. We got to see lots of relatives that we don’t frequently see due to the distance, and we all enjoyed hanging out and eating a fantastic feast on Thanksgiving. Going on walks, hitting some tag sales, going to [...]
Hope everyone had a happy Easter or Passover… Last weekend, we went on an egg hunt, and this weekend, we celebrated by coloring eggs, making a bunny cake, visiting with friends, and then going to church and having dinner with Andrew’s family. Here’s the gallery of Easter photos. And here’s one of my favorites. Ella [...]
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Check out Ella’s attire in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. The hat was handmade and hand-delivered by her Aunt Theresa. Here are more photos of Ella O’Clarke….
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By Sara | December 17, 2008
Our holiday cookie exchange is back after a one-year hiatus. (Bring really pregnant and baking 100+ cookies didn’t sound like fun last year.) Ten bakers joined us this year, each bringing a bag of cookies for everyone else and some for us all to taste. There was a fantastic variety of treats, from fudge to [...]
By Sara | December 17, 2008
OK, Christmas is allowed to come — we’ve decorated our house. I am very happy with our tree (and the fact that neither Sasha nor Ella has tried to pull it down…yet) and with the resulting furniture move in the living room. The fun part this year was having Ella pick out a stocking. We [...]
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We’ve been too full for the last couple days to post, but we’re finally coming to the end of the leftovers (although there ARE a couple of pieces of pie left for breakfast tomorrow, thankfully!). We had a low-key but very happy Thanksgiving with my brother Jeff coming over, and Ella enjoying her first parental-approved [...]
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By Sara | October 31, 2008
Here are a few photos of Ella, dressed in her Halloween finery. All of the kids from daycare dressed up and went on a parade past the nearby businesses, and many of the owners were dressed up in costume to hand out candy to the kids. Even Ella and the other little kids came back [...]
No – it’s not another baseball post (although there are some very cute videos of Ella at the ballgame keeping herself entertained). But, as it’s July, what blog would be complete without some fireworks? A couple of years ago we watched the fireworks from the Pentagon parking lot with our neighbors and got some great [...]
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Now that the Clarke family is almost entirely back on their feet after some assorted illnesses, we wanted to wish a belated 232nd birthday to the country (just think of the fire extinguisher you’d need to have on hand for that cake…). Little known fact of the week: while we celebrate July 4 as the [...]
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It’s been more like Happy Father’s Week, as I began the celebration on Tuesday with my Dad (because this weekend my parents are down visiting my grandfather (aka, Ella’s great-grandfather) ), and it’s definitely been a happy one. Today started out with Ella and I having a little morning nap, before taking a long family [...]
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Here’s a photo of Ella hanging out with her Uncle Jeff on Mother’s Day. (Yes, we also hung out with Jeff’s — and Andrew’s — mom that day, and with my mom the day before.)
We spent Mother’s Day with lots of family — hanging out in the morning with everyone still in town from the baptism, and then hanging out with Andrew’s family in the evening. We ordered yummy takeout from Faccia Luna and hung out in Old Town, since the rain put the kibosh on our original outdoor [...]
