Thanksgiving 2012

Ok so I'm once again I'm behind in posting.  I'm going to try and catch up a bit before its time for Christmas posting. This year for Thanskgiving Logan and I hosted dinner for friends who like us didn't have other family to spend the holiday with. We ended up with ourselves, Pastor, Nate, and Mike who Logan works with.  It was fun to host and have a house full of people. Besides as Logan and I have learned when you can't be with your actual families, its great to be with those friends who are like family.  And we are so blessed to have many of those.
I have to say we were a bit leary after the disaster we had the last time we tried to cook without parental help, but I'm happy to say that Oscar the 5th turned out wonderful along with all the other trimmings. Including my first attempt at homeade pie crust! :) So here's some pictures of the food prep and things. My students thought it was great fun to see Mrs. Lehart in her "p.j.'s".  Hope you enjoy too! Oh and check out my awesome apron Sarah made me. It's super cute!

Oscar IV thawing in the sink

My first totally homeade pie!

Getting the turkey bag ready

Making stuffing

In the oven bright and early



Table set & ready to go



Logan & Pastor carving Oscar



Serving the stuffing

All the yummy food!

Fall at the Lenhart's

 Happy November! Before it gets to be Thanksgiving I thought I'd better post a few pictures from our fall fun in October. A couple weeks ago we went to a pumpkin farm with some friends and their kids. We walked through a corn maze, went on a hayride, and picked a pumpkin. Unfortunetly we didn't get to carve it because the squirrels ate it before we got time. For Halloween we went to a costume party at a friend's house. We were able to borrow bacon and eggs costumes so that was fun. Then for Halloween I dressed up as a butterfly with the other 2nd grade teachers for the party and parade. I even wore part of the costume for passing out candy. So here are some pictures of our fall fun. As with the previous post please excuse the quality as we are still using cell phone cammera for some and a borrowed cammera for others. Enjoy!

April as an egg

Logan as bacon

Bacon and Eggs

My butterfuly costume for school

Part of my costume
for pasing out candy

  

Our pumpkin



Horrible pic of us eating kettle corn
on the hayride

 

Logan Turns 28!

On October 4th my wonderful husband turned 28! This year he only got two birthday celebrations. I hope he enjoyed his as much as I enjoyed all the things he did for me.  On his actual b-day we had dinner of all his favorites bbq ribs, mashed potatoes, snicker salad and chocolate ice cream cake. Then he opened gifts and we watched Big Bang Theory. Friday night we went out for dinner with our friend Amanda for a 2nd celebration. So here are pictures of his big day. 

 
 

National Book Festival 2012

One of my favorite D.C. activities is the National Book Festival every September down on the mall. I have been 6 out of the 7 years we have been out here.  This year Logan was off so I took him with me. Having him along made it much more fun. The other thing that made this year more fun was getting to see and hang out with people from school. One of the teachers I work with was in charge of one of the tents so we got to see her and also got to hang out with the school libarian, one of my students and see my principal. We had fun wondering around, getting a book signed and getting pictures with the characters for Abigail and Rebekah. Then we headed home to get ready for Michigan football with some friends. The funny thing was there was a delay on the metro so we were stuck on the train for a long time. We were so tired we ended up falling alseep and some lady had to wake us up when they made everyone get off the train. OOPS!  Oh and bear with the quality. We had a cammera mishap on the metro down so we were stuck with just our cell phones for pictures.
 So girls these pictures are just for you. We hope you enjoy them and maybe next year you can come with us! And let us know if we put the wrong name with any of the characters. :)




Logan & Super Why



On the metro coming home

Us with a Princess

Logan & Arthur

Curious George

April & Buddy

Clifford

April & Daniel the Tiger

April with Martha

Logan with Cat and the Hat

Book Fair sign

Our 4th Anniversary

Yesterday was our 4th anniversary. It's kinda crazy to think it has already been 4 years. It's been a crazy four years, but I wouldn't trade them. To celebrate we went to Dupont Circle to The Melting Pot which is a fondue resturant. The food was amazing and we always enjoy the relaxing setting of cooking your own food while you get a chance to just hang out with each other. Our waitress was awesome and gave us free glasses of champagne and we got chocolate covered strawberries to take home since is was our anniversary.  It was a fun night and I look forward to celebrating many more anniversaries with Logan.

 



 Oh and the tie was a special present for Logan. It is a University of Michigan tie for him to wear to work on college football Saturdays to show support for his favorite team. Season starts Labor Day weekend so he got it a couple weeks early.

Company from Iowa

Last weekend we were very lucky to have Logan's dad, his twin brother Luke and Luke's little girl Harper come to visit for the weekend. It was great to have a house full of family and get the chance to spoil our niece.  She is an absolute doll and such a good little girl. Thankfully even though we don't see her much, she thought Aunt April & Uncle Logan were pretty cool so we got to play and snuggle a lot.  Of course it was fun to hang with Luke and Bruce too.  We picked crabs, went to the guys' favorite restaurant in Annapolis and downtown to see the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial. Can't wait to have more family come to visit!





Watching us pick crabs on the deck



Picking crabs!

Deciding what to order

Harper's 1st trip to Middelton's

Luke, Logan, Bruce, Harper



Uncle Logan feeding her dinner

Riding the Metro with Aunt April

Martin Luther King Memorial

Harper and her daddy

New & Improved Guest Room

This has been kind of a different summer for me. I spent June cleaning out my room at school and then figuring out where to put 12 years of teaching stuff here at home without making a mess of the place. Oh and somewhere in there I spent hours on line searching for a new job. I'm happy to say I found one and will be a classroom assistant at a Catholic school about 5 miles from home. The best thing about that job is that for the 1st time in 12 years I have actually had time to myself this summer. Now I know many say "teachers are off all summer every year" but that is a total lie when you work at a private school and when you switch grades and classrooms every year like I did. SOOO in between a couple weekend trips I have been spending the month of July working on projects around the house. It's been so much fun to finally do things to make the house more ours after living here for a year. Logan has been a great help on his days off though I think some days he doesn't quite know what to expect when he gets home after work. My most ambitious project was to paint the downstairs guest room. I worked a couple days on my own and then Logan helped me finish it up including adding blinds. There was a 2 fold plan in working on that room- more practice before we tackle upstairs and most of all it's nice and cool in the basement and it's been really hot this summer. :)  So here are some before and after pictures. We still need some painting practice, but we're getting there. I'm still amazed what a difference just a can of paint can make.

Before

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After

After

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