January 1996

Our 12th Wedding Anniversary is coming up in a few weeks. I stumbled across this pic today as I was going through some stacks on my desk. This was taken at BWI on January 8th, 1996. We were flying out to the Bahama's. Some fun facts about this trip: It was my first time on an airplane, we had only started dating three months prior, he gave me "the" ring on this trip but said he had to do one more thing before he officially asked me to marry him, our first nephew had been born the day before, it was in the middle of the bigest snowstorm in a long time.

Fire Place Wall Is DONE!!

The big reveal:

Cherry Blossom Festival!

We went down to DC last Saturday with the kids, my in-laws and Jon's cousins' little girl (well, one of four!). We had a great time despite the crowds and wind! Here are some pics:

Almost there!

The Living Room is slowly coming together. I have to re-paint all the trim still (well, and hang the other three windows-worth of curtains!) but I think it's finally looking the way I want it to!




Oh - here is a "before" of the same window, but not the same angle...

Look At This COOL Picture!

We went to the Cherry Blossom Parade and Festival yesterday in DC. I got some good pics outside that I will share soon, but came across this very cool one and had to post it! Ella had me taking pics of the jewels in the Nat. History Museum, which is very hard to do! Low light = flash needed BUT jewels encased = light reflection. So, I'm not sure how it happened, but I managed to get Ella's face and expression upon seeing this necklace right as I shot the picture!

Mis-Match Day!

Clarification...

The post entitled "Awesome" was trying to show you all our billboard for church. The phone didn't do it justice. Well, plus I was trying to drive at the time...

Mmmmm... Roadhouse rolls and cinnamon butter....

Awesome

New Bike!

Jon surprised Ella this afternoon and took her to get a new big-girl bike! She's known how to ride a 2-wheeler for awhile (that was quite a funny experience, by the way. At the time, Coby was infatuated by the song "Handlebars" by the Flobots and to keep her not thinking about what she was doing Jon was getting her to sing, "I can ride my bike with no training wheels." You'd really need to know the song to get that...) and had outgrown her old one. She was very excited to pick this Barbie one out. You can see there is even a place to put a barbie! Fun!