Photo Day

We needed to get our family pictures redone since Ava was not in our last set. The day was full of chaos but the photographer caught us all smiling several times. The kids look great, Ish looks good, and I look bad. But it's not a picture of me, it's of the family, so I don't care...really, I don't care...I might care a little bit! :) Oh well! Aidan was Mr. photogenic and he totally loved the photographer. Whenever she would pose him for a shot he had this goo-goo ga-ga look on his face, Ava dug her too, maybe it was all the toys and tricks she has to get them to smile, cause they were ready to stay with her!

Cherry Blossom Festival in DC

Last time we lived here in Virgina we went to the Cheery Blossom Festival in Washington DC, which in also a Japanese festival since in is a spin off of the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival. We knew we were on our way to Japan so it was really cool to go a check out what we were in store for. This year when we went back to the festival here we once again had a ball, but it was from a completely different perspective having just come back from Japan, instead of looking at all the cool stuff with wonder and excitement of something we didn't know much about, we felt cozy and at home. It made us really miss Japan!
The blossoms where awesome, it was really crowded since it is such a well know festival, but it was kinda' cool to see all the different people and their reactions to the things they might not know much about...kinda' like us the first time!
Here's some pics of the day, we started at a coffee house by our house...Aidan loves it when we do that, it means hot chocolate and muffins!