Brayden's Little Gym End of Semester...Big Show!

Brayden has really enjoyed himself at Little Gym this semester. He only had 2 other kids in his class and on some weeks was the only one in class. He has really excelled with his skills and of course, LOVES to hang and jump and climb :)

Here's our little Super Beast at his end of semester Big Show

Kelbie came to watch his Big Show...

So sweet!

Playing the drums for the opening song

A Donkey Kick- working towards a head stand which he can do by himself on the wall

Bars

Balance Beam

And this is his favorite trick....to put himself in a basket hang and flip out of it

Getting his big award

Ms. Gina with her Super Beasts...Jake, Brayden and Alyssa

In Virginia...playing golf with Daddy and Paw Paw

The golf course went right behind our condo, so the last day the big boys played, they let us come out and drive the golf cart and let Brayden hit the ball a couple of times.

This is his first real time on a golf course...

Vacation in Virginia...Part 3

Tuesday we visited Luray Caverns...a natural cavern nearby...the actual formations weren't all that different from what we've seen before, but they did have the ONLY stalagpipe organ- that's right, they took organ mallets and attached them to stalagtites and stalagmites and hooked it up to an organ and it played music- very neat!

The big boys played golf twice on this mountain course

Beautiful scenic drive in the blue ridge mountains

A stop for lunch at a historic restaurant

At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home...very beautiful! All of his belongings are there and restored back to the condition it was in after he retired and came to live back here.

Headed back home to Houston...B watched about 10 minutes of a movie and then laid down and took his nap for the entire flight! It was fabulous!

A wonderful vacation...we really enjoyed spending time with the whole Harper family and spending more time with Josie as well :)

D.C. and headed for our Vacation in Virginia...Part 2

A few more pics in D.C. before we headed out to the resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Blake's school did the famous speakers for the graduation on the mall in front of the capital Sunday morning...we weren't all that interested in sitting through them, but it is pretty special they are the only school that is allowed to do this on the mall :) So we snapped a few pictures when it was all over

National Air and Space Museum

Wow! Those are big airplanes!

Supporting our home church on the day the new church building opened :)

We headed out to the mountains and our first stop the next day was at Montpelier, President James Madison's home. Unfortunetly, the home and it's belongings had been sold to multiple owners after James died, so they are working diligently to restore the home and find all of the missing belongings- it was pretty much empty, and Brayden wanted nothing to do with listening to stories...so Mommy and Brayden headed out to see the carpenter on site.

He showed him how to work this old teddy bear toy...Brayden LOVED it!

He showed him how they constructed the buildings with pegs and cuts

He let him hammer in pegs

And saw his own piece of wood- very special!

They are doing lots of archaeological digging around the site...so they had set up a kids version in a sand box with real pieces they had found.

Dig...Wash...Identify

As my sister said on her picture of this...he would follow Uncle Blake anywhere! The bond between the two of them is amazing! It's been since Christmas since we have seen him and you would never know it! But...we sure do miss Uncle Blake not being near us!

Brayden and Montpelier