Harry Potter Day!!!! Warning: crazed fans alert!

Katie and Laura have been awaiting this day with huge anticipation and much dread as well: the last Harry Potter book is released today. Laura, with her 102 degree fever, reading in bed, and Katie, on hers, devouring the pages, with sporadic screams and running to each others bedrooms: "Can you believe???" "Did you read???"

Celebrating at the zoo

It was such a hot day and the mist felt so good!
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For Em's bday, we spent the day at the National Zoo. Can I just say it was really hot? We loved the mist spritzers that are strategically stationed along the path. Maddie loved the pandas, and was very proud later in the day that she

remembered that they eat "bamboom!"
L - R: Trina, Maddie, Katie, Marie, Spencer in stroller
Ryan crashed on Daniel in the early afternoon. Aren't they adorable?!!?

She's 30??!!??

She's 30??!!??
Originally uploaded by ValerieBW

Yes, it's true. Our oldest daughter is th...thi...{{cough}}..thirty!! I'm more depressed about it than she is. We celebrated by going to the National Zoo in DC, eating Red Hot and Blue for dinner, and peach cobbler for "cake". Jorge Luis drove all the way from NYC for the occasion.