The adventures of a little boy and a mom who tries to keep up!
Birthday with the Family 2.17.13
To celebrate my birthday with the family, we met for lunch at one of my favorite places. I always have a great time with my family. We had a great lunch and they showered with me with sweet gifts. Thanks to the best family a girl could ask for!
A Galaxy Far, Far Away 2.16.13
For Pierce's 7th birthday party, he went with a Star Wars theme! Jonathan made the cake again {he always does such a great job}. I don't know enough about Star Wars to be sure what this cake was, but Pierce was sure excited about it. The party started with the boys making their very own Death Star. Then it was off to the garage for some intergalactical bowling and a silly string battle. Then it was time for some cake and presents. And for the final activity of the day, some jedi light saber training. Happy Birthday Pierce! It was a great time for all!!
My New Faucet 2.9.13
I have been wanting to replace my kitchen faucet for a long time now and my good friend Darrick offered to help. So, today was the day! I love doing home improvement projects {especially when someone else does all/most of the work}. Darrick did a great job and really went the extra mile when we realized that it wasn't working out quite the way we thought it would. Thanks so much Darrick...I'm loving my new faucet!
A Party with Friends 2.9.13
I spent this evening with some of my dearest friends. We had a joint house warming/birthday gathering for Jim and Sarah. They have a lovely home and it was such fun to catch up with everyone. Thanks for a great evening friends.
The whole gang except Julie and Matt who had a family emergency and had to leave. Love this group of people.
Sarah showing us a trick.
Gina telling/showing us her joke.
Birthday Lunch 2.2.13
Karen got ahold of me a couple weeks ago and asked if I could leave February 2nd open for some birthday fun. Of course, I was more than happy to oblige her. I didn't know what she had in store for me, but I was given the instructions to dress nice and plan for a couple of hours. {I love a good surprise!} Anywho, I got to her home and she asked me if I had a guess. Well, there's a fabulous local italian restuarant and I was hoping that maybe we were headed there for a little cooking demonstration...and we were!!!! It was such a fun afternoon. Only about 11 of us there and the chef was awesome and hilarious. We had some lovely wine and so die for food. It was a wonderful afternoon. Thanks so much Karen!
Our third course was duck breast with cherry-syrah sauce. This was my first time having duck and I LOVED it!! Melt in your mouth delicious!
Ladies who lunch!
We began with fresh baked focaccia bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Delish.
Next up was linguine with clams...yum!
And last, but certainly not least, a lemon tart for dessert. Perfection!
It was so delicious. I'd like to become a regular!!! Got that Karen! :o)
The Capitol (sort of) 1.22.13
For our last day we had big plans...we were going to spend the day at the Capitol. We were going to take a tour and Darrick even got us tickets to see areas of the Capitol that are usually off limits to the public. It was going to be awesome!!! What really happened is that we again got a later start than planned and then got out voted, so we stopped at the White House (which took forever) then it was finally off toward the Capitol. While the rest of the group stayed with Frank, Darrick and I hightailed it up the hill to get our tour tickets. As we were waiting in line, Darrick realized that he had forgotten our other tickets back on the bus that we wouldn't be seeing again for a couple hours. Then we couldn't get tour tickets until 11:25, but we had to meet our bus at 12:00. We still thought we could see at least some of the place, but then the tour guide told us we were on Capitol time which meant that our tour wouldn't start until 11:35 and the tour began with a mandatory 15 minute video which left us exactly 10 minutes to make it back to our bus by 12:00. Grrrrrrrr. It was so disappointing, but I guess that's just the reason I needed to HAVE to go back again! :o)
The Ball 1.21.13
The night of our inauguration we had our ball. Apparently, Obama was a little too busy to attend our particular ball, but we still had a great time anyway!! :o) It was the perfect end to our historical day!
Sierra and Kim
Christy and I with our good buddy George.
Okay, so maybe the Obama's did show up! ;o)
Sweet, sweet Abe. How I do adore thee!
Christy and Autumn
Darrick doing a dance for us!
Austin and Izel
John, Christy, and Cara
The Kennedy Center 1.21.13
After getting some lunch and doing a little shopping , we realized we had some time to kill before the ball, so after some debating of the people in charge, we decided to go to the Kennedy Center. As a huge fan of John F. Kennedy, I was thrilled at this plan. It was a great way to use our time, as we didn't need a ton of time there to see it all and there was no big hiking asked of us! ;o)
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Inauguration 1.21.13
After a regrettable evening that consisted of bad food, over crowding, and awkward bowling, it was up very early today for the inauguration. We had tickets for the Gold area...the tickets themselves were way cool! We got on the bus to take us into town while it was still dark out. Now that's dedication! Once we got to the parking spot, we had a bit of a walk to get to the Capitol. We were concerned about all staying together in the ridiculous crowds so we all buddied up and held hands. It was quite cute. Especially when Cara kept asking Austin to hold her hand and he would say sure and then not do it over and over again, until she was just begging him. I forget sometimes how darn cute high school kids can be! We finally got to our gate, after weaving through many people, then it was time to wait FOREVER to go through security. We waited and we waited and we waited, until finally I had enough and jumped the fence! :o) Shhhhhh, don't tell. We all cleared security and then it was more walking to our spot. Once we staked out our area, we still had a couple hours to kill before the inauguration actually started, but there were kids singing and plenty to see. The actual inauguration was so cool; definitely, an experience that I will never forget.
On our way!
Cara and Austin demonstrating the buddy system!
We made it!
There was a little bit of security at the event! :o)
Thanks for an amazing trip Darrick!
I tend to take pictures of my feet quite a bit...I had to get them at the inauguration! :o)
What it must be like to be sitting up there!
President Obama giving his second inugural address.
Just a fraction of the crowd as we were leaving.
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