Ice cream made on a COLDSTONE

Lexi and I love Coldstone ice cream! We always get the same thing. She gets cheesecake ice cream with raspberry, I get cake batter with cookie dough. Every once in a while we think we want to try something else, only to be devastatingly let down and wonder why we ever strayed from our favorites. After we get our favs, we go and sit on a bench in the mall and people watch. The problem? It can be a little pricey. (a good alternative is Maceys ice cream. $1 for 2 small godd-sized cones, including tax). So we're always looking for deals online.
The other day I found some good ones on Deal Dragon. For a free coupon you print off you get 2 quarts for $9. We decided to try it out last night. Here are the pics of the overflowing goodness

My cake batter with cookie dough. Didn't get a pic of lexi's cause I was too distracted by mine.

Not sure if we enjoyed people watching people more or if people enjoyed people watching us. After a couple minutes of silence and purely enjoying our steal, we had to set a limit (15 more bites) to when we would stop or we could've finished the whole quart. We then sealed the container and hurried home to get the precious quarts in the freezer (but took a couple more bites first). It's now a joy opening the freezer and seeing such a beautiful site. We can have our favorite Coldstone whenever now!

The one legged napper!

The other day I went to get Gavin out of his crib from a nap. He usually is standing up when we go in to get him but this time he was on his knees struggling to get to his feet. When I picked him up I saw why:



Both legs stuck in one. He was a little frustrated but I had to take a few pictures before I fixed it.

(on a side note, is it socially acceptable for me, a guy, to be blogging like this?)

Land of Mary

Todd here: Who hates uploading pictures to blogger? So here are the pictures of our trip in backwards order with some medium sized and some small (you'd think I'd learn by now).

Anyway about a month ago Lexi, Gavin and I flew out to Maryland to visit Lexi's brother Rob and his family. We were out there for a week and loved spending time with them. They were such good hosts. (To see day-by-day blog updates go back a few posts).

These are at a museum just outside the Naval Base Rob works at:

Gavin behind the controls inside the museum:
Rob told us all these cool things about the planes.
Working some controls:
This is at the beach inside the base. We were limited on our picture taking so this is the only one we got. We just have the memories of the sweet F-18s taking off!
DC day 2 Capitol:
Botanic Gardens, alone... :)
You'd think all that walking would shrink my belly down just a bit, uuugh!
Air and Space Museum:
Natural History Museum:
The bay about 2 minutes from Rob and Tina's house with really warm water and biting horseflies:
DC day 1 Jefferson Memorial at dusk:
This is standing behind the Lincoln Memorial watching the sunset:
Construction on the reflecting pond, not sure what they're doing.
Lincoln Memorial. Such an awesome site:
We got a lot of looks with our 3 strollers going everywhere: "There's a reason for the elevators" -Black guy (to us going down the escalator in front of him)
WWII Monument:
White House:
Washington Monument:
No routines for the babies at DC, so naps were taken whenever and in whatever position:
This is the restaurant where we met up with Lexi's cousin:
Outside the American History Museum. (C'mon Todd, suck it in at least for the pictures!):
"There's no place like home:"
On the metro:
The bay in the evening:
Walking to the bay. We loved all the greenery and catching fireflies:
Day 1 at Solomon's Island, a boardwalk with some shops and stuff:
That's the stroller we got from the church lost-and-found before it was taken to the D.I. It was cheap and old but lasted us the whole week full of metros, museums, DC and much more.

Such an awesome trip. We were glad we went. But our favorite parts were just hanging out at night and playing games after the kids went to bed. We're hoping Rob and Tina will move a little closer to home so we can see them more often, but were happy to hang with them and tour part of the East Coast along the way.