{"id":2011,"date":"2015-09-06T20:58:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T00:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:24:59","slug":"a-great-day-in-annapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"A Great Day in Annapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today Justin and I took the girls to Annapolis.\u00a0 Justin had never been and to my recollection I had been once or twice as a kid, but hadn\u2019t been in well over 20 years.\u00a0 We could not have asked for a more beautiful September day.\u00a0 We walked around, ate lunch (at an okay restaurant with crappy service but in a way met expectations as we waited to eat until close to 2:00 to eat and by then the girls were starving and we didn\u2019t have much time to scope places out), and then walked around some more.\u00a0 The sun was strong\u2026in fact, pretty darn hot at times, but it truly was a wonderful day.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s been a wonderful weekend so far.\u00a0 The girls are getting older and everything is becoming that much easier to do with three.\u00a0 For example, last night we took them to Passion Fish at Reston Town Center.\u00a0 Many people go there for a nice romantic dinner and I was that lady who brought her three young kids!\u00a0 They were very well behaved though.\u00a0 I just feel kind of high on life right now.\u00a0 Perhaps it could be too because the last two nights I have watched two tear jerker movies (and I barely watch TV) and it just opened up my emotions in a way that I am feeling so blessed and so happy with my family and life right now.\u00a0 Anyway, I had originally envisioned taking lots of pictures of the girls in Annapolis but it was way busier than I envisioned and since we were enjoying ourselves and getting pictures of the girls can be look pulling teeth sometimes and Justin still wasn\u2019t back to his normal self from his pneumonia recovery, after he took out the camera the one time, I didn\u2019t pester him to take it out again. Anyway, it was a really great day.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2012\" title=\"_MG_1637\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1637-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1637-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1637-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2013\" title=\"_MG_1640\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1640-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1640-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1640-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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title=\"_MG_1655\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1655-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1655-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1655-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2022\" title=\"_MG_1657\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1657-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1657-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1657-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2025\" title=\"_MG_1664\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1664-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1664-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1664-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1664-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2026\" title=\"_MG_1665\" src=\"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1665-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1665-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1665-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MG_1665-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img 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