St Patrick's Day Snow

Well, one day after 70 degrees, we got a big snow!  On St Patrick's Day of all days.  We had about 8" at our house.  The best part was we went sledding for the first time!  We first tested Avery on the sled in our little slope backyard:

Then found a good big hill nearby and went flying down in the fresh powder!!!

Meanwhile Colleen and Avery enjoyed lounging in the kiddie pool!

Within 2 days it had all melted again and we went right back up into the 70s! This has been a bi-polar winter for sure!

Virginia Beach

We went to Virginia Beach on St. Patrick's Day weekend for Colleen to run in the Shamrock Half Marathon.  We drove down Friday after work and Avery of course loved being in a hotel (that's always the best part of each trip for her!).  On Saturday we went to the race expo where Avery got to be the GEICO gecko.

She also found a big pot of gold!

Later we went to the beach.

Avery ran around in her undies and made lots of friends, too cute!

 Look what I made mommy and daddy!

Daddy and Avery footprints:

On Sunday morning Avery got her sign ready and watched for momma on the course:

Colleen came by in a blur!

Afterwards we enjoyed beer in the tent, and you know Colleen is fast when the beer tent is still empty when she gets there!

The tent was on the beach, and Avery played on the sand and danced around to the band playing, the Dublin Five. (A great band from Maryland we've heard at other post-race events!)

We headed back into a great big snow storm, the weather in the mid-Atlantic went from 70F to snow in 12 hours!  We got home just as the snow started accumulating!