Technicalities

After dinner, the boys were running around screaming like banshees and carrying on. For some reason, they adopted "Tabasco" as some sort of a battle cry and were running around the house screaming "Tabasco! Tabasco!"

I was washing the frying pan and casserole dish in the sink and not paying too much attention. It got quiet for a moment, then suddenly they came bursting through the back door into the kitchen and started attacking me while I was standing there at the kitchen sink. ES repeatedly stabbed me in the back with the blunt handle of a plastic comb.

My wife looked at the boys and said, "Did you two just run around the outside of the house in your socks?"

ES looked at her quizzically, like why on EARTH would she ask such a silly question.

"No," he said matter-of-factly, "we walked."

My Shoeless Tabasco Ninja

After I finished cleaned up from dinner (my wife made those awesome chicken enchiladas from Becky's recipe :-9), the boys and I went for a walk to find a nearby geocache.

I think I've mentioned before, but I'll say it again, I love Ashburn and the network of paved walking / jogging trails through the open space areas. This is the perfect time of year, too. There's a very slight chill in the air, but it's not really cold, and the trees are all different shades of green, orange, yellow, and red.

Autumn in Ashburn

Oh, yesterday we went to the outlets in Leesburg and got shoes for the boys. Tonight for our geocaching trek, YB was particularly excited to try out his new shoes.

YB's new fire-truck shoes

One of the fire trucks even lights up! (They gave us 20% off on the shoes since the other one didn't light up and they didn't have another pair in his size - cha-ching!)

We got a lot of stuff done around the house this weekend - unpacking boxes, hanging curtains, hanging pictures, installing motion sensor lights, etc, etc.

I hope you all had a good 3-day weekend, too. Happy Birthday Navy! :-)