We are the Arzaga's: September 2008

Fall Festivals

Nothing says the end of oppressive summer heat and humidity in the mid-Atlantic than the various Fall Festivals that pop up all around northern VA.

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All this means to the Arzaga family is an annual pilgrimmage to a local apple orchard and attend as many fall festivals into an already packed Fall weekends. Along with cousins from MD, Jake and Joey slid down slides, rode on hayrides, and munched on endless kettle corn at Cox's Farm. Even Trina baked her heart out with not one, not two, but EIGHT apple pies, prepared to perfection. Autumn is by far my favorite season of the year.

Fall Festivals

Luau Block Party

The captions for each photo describe the moment.

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What wasn't captured in film was the camaraderie of six guys huddled in the darkness of night, smokin' a stogie, sippin' some bourbon, all the while spellbound by the fire before us.

Jake's First Day of Kindergarten

"Overwhelmed with pride and joy." That's how we felt about Jacob on his first day of school at Kindergarten. All summer long, Jake asked when the leaves would start falling off the trees, because that would only mean that autumn is here. And of course, Jake retorts back that autumn is when he starts Kindergarten at his new school, Hutchison Farm Elementary, home of the Huskies.

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Jacob was so excited, he voluntarily went to bed early and immediately woke up when morning arrived. You would think it was Christmas morning for him, but that was how excited he was. He couldn't stand waiting for the rest of us to RUN to the school bus stop. He was all SMILES to start a new chapter in his life. Watching him board that school bus, we couldn't help but be overwhelmed with pride and joy.

Jake's First Day of Kindergarten

"A life lived for others is a life worthwhile"

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." - unknown
"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth." Bonnie Friedman
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice." William Jennings Bryan
"Do good things, good things happen." My Name is Earl
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." Roger Caras
"Everything is going to be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." - unknown
"From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way." - Calvin and Hobbes
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying." - Robert Herrick
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Have fun storming the castle!" - Princess Bride"
"He who knows patience knows peace." Chinese proverb
"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts is with a simple smile." Goldie Hawn
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? - Stand By Me
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman
"I wish I had your passion... misdirected though it might be, it is still a passion." - Field of Dreams
"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." Vince Lombardi
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller
"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words." Fr. Jerome Cummings
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets oppurtunity."
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." Soren Kierkegaard
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." Earl Nightingale
"Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise." Anonymous
"Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet. " - Roger Miller
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." Henry David Thoreau
"The secret to happiness is learning to appreciate the moment" Bill Watterson via Calvin and Hobbes
"The true test of character is... how we behave when we don't know what to do." John Holt
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. Think about that for a while. " - Bull Durham
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." Donald Laird
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. " Dead Poets Society
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." George Bernard Shaw
"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." Japanese Proverb
"Who I am, is who I want to be." Reba McEntire
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." Carl G. Jung
"Work hard, play harder...one day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching." - unknown

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