A trip I never blogged about.

I think with Thanksgiving and Christmas following our wonderful trip to D.C. they caused a forgotten post(can you tell I am tired? I cannot make this sentence make sense, just pretend you know what I am talking about). This post should have been published months ago, but in true Carrie fashion it is happening late.

In Early November Me, hubby and meadow traveled to Washington D.C./Arlington, VA to visit our good friends. They are living there due to the fact that "Mr. Friend" is clerking for a Supreme Court justice. We are so proud of him and wanted to take full advantage of our friendship and tour the supreme court while he was there :) We got a personal tour of the building including Justice Thomas' chamber. Very cool. Silly me, wasn't sure what was kosher to take pictures of (pictures are not allowed in the actual court room) so I have limited pics. Our friend later asked why I wasn't taking any pictures of all the cool rooms he was taking us in. "oh, I can take pictures!" was my reply, and he just laughed. So please forgive me of not getting pictures of the places most of the general public are not allowed, but here are a few that were taken:

Supreme Court(I love the sky in this picture)

enjoying an inner courtyard of Supreme Court

Mr. Friend will have to remind me of who this is, because I don't remember, but it is hanging in one of the "ball rooms"

Chandelier in a ballroom.

a few other pictures from our visit (in no particular order):

Each star represents 100 dead in WWII, this is only probablly about 1/5 of the stars in the monument.

Atlantic entrance to WWII monument

Washington Monument (I love this picture, no photoshopping was necessary) look how blue the sky was.

Lincoln monument, so much bigger in person. This was Cache's favorite.

Stay tuned for more pictures of:

Arlington Cemetary, Mt. Vernon, National Capitol, Pentagon, natural history museum.

Daily Life

I looked around today and loved what I saw. Each child entertaining themselves. What makes me smile even more was that the two oldest kids were playing with toys they received LAST Christmas.

Finley the fierce boxer.

Peanut, Julie, Buttercup.

Panda

My brother and his family are visiting from Germany. It has been so fun to spend time with them. Here is my niece who is turning 18 in 12 days!! (I feel so old). Sorry boys (since so many boys read my blog ;) she is taken.

Before&after

Do you like looking at before and after photos? I do. Especially make-over before and afters. I love seeing a plain looking person turn into a new gorgeous person. I wish I had a before and after picture of me going from "frumpy mom" to "hawt mom", but I don't-because it hasn't happened, so here is a picture of my kitchen and what it looked like yesterday morning and what it looked like yesterday afternoon. Not a huge change, no new cabinets and counter tops or anything, but it does look different. Sometimes I take pictures of things before I work on them so I can see the difference when I am done. Corny I know, but it works for me, so I thought I would share.

Before

After

GLooooRIA

I had to take my camera to church last Sunday for a project that I am working on for the bishop(i don't usually take my camera to church) and I loved this moment so much I just had to take a picture of it. I held the camera way down low and tried to be as sneaky as I could. I wasn't sure how fellow worshipers would feel about me taking pictures during a sacred service. shhhh-don't tell anyone.

Angels We Have Heard on High

tree wonder

Meadow has been fascinated with the tree. Her favorite place to be right now is under the lights.

turkey day

Even 6 month old babies should get a piece of the pie of Thanksgiving (or in this case a piece of the turkey).