Washington DC

Of course, there is nothing more peaceful than sitting on the steps below Lincoln and staring out over the Reflecting Pool and seeing the Washington Monument in the distance. It was beautiful the day we were there; mid to upper 60's w/ the sun shining. I could have definitely sat upon those steps for awhile longer than we did :) That's Justus, Jason & Candy's son, behind Tyler, and the boy to their left in the Louisville jacket is Ryan, Rob's youngest.


The WWII memorial was so expansive and in such a circular form, you couldn't really get it all in one shot and do it any measure of justice. On each side of it's pool w/ fountains was a semi circular structure, one for Atlantic and one for Pacific. A state's name was engraved on each of the individual pillars.


I think the new World War II Memorial at the end of the Reflecting Pool was by far one of my favorites.

The pure reverence inspired by Arlington hit me just as much this trip as it did when we went in 2000.

Tyler in Arlington Cemetery

Me and Tyler in front of the White House....

This is by far my favorite pick of the whole trip! He's actually sitting on Jon's shoulders, and if you look, you can see the top of Jon's head in perfect proportion to the word Gap in his jacket:) Is he not just the most beautiful little boy??!!! The cherry blossums are nice too. We were in the cherry blossom trees on the Potomac in this pic and the Jefferson memorial was just a ways to our left.

I'll post some more pics later!

Help me Dana!!!

Hey Dana!!! So, awhile back, I changed my background on my blog using the cutest blog on the block that I saw on yours....well, it worked for the first two or three changes.....and now, it's not. My template has been changed to minima, and if I refresh my page while I'm on my blog, it flashes to the background I've been trying to save but then it goes to nasty pinkish, brownish ugly THAT WON'T GO AWAY!!!!! WHAT am I doing wrong???????????

Time, where did the time go?

Today I added a pic to my fb acct, checked my fb acct, realized there were about 15-20 requests, snowballs, join this or that and I realized I just really don't make the time for it. When I worked at the bank, I checked my email daily because there was almost always down time. Now, at work I'm doing good to check my work acct....so, a day or so ago my yahoo acct had about 150 messages going back to before Christmas. I really don't manage my time well and decided to cancel facebook.......SORRY DANA!!!!.......I just read in my email your post about the pic, so I put it on here too :) With the fb, I just kinda got to the point where I was more worried than anything else, thinking things like, "I wonder if so & so is mad because I didn't return a snow man before Christmas (it's 1-17)" rather than just enjoying for what it was.....

Happy late Halloween!!!! As you can see, we were a witch and Jedi master. Tyler absolutely loved it that I dressed up too :) Jon, of course, didn't join in the dressing up fun. We all met at Candy's Mom's house and walked thru the neighborhoods trick or treating. It was me, Jon, Tyler, Jason, Candy, Justus, Rob, Stephanie, John & Leah. Candy and Stephanie dressed up like witches too; we had fun w/ it.... Of course everybody had to give me a hard time; since I LOVE Harry Potter, am a huge Charmed fan, & am now fanatically obsessed with Twilight, the comments were made, "Candy & Stephanie dressed up as witches; Chenille just looks natural!" :)
Tyler thought it was cool he was a Jedi and, consequently, was trying to use the force on everyone that night!

Speaking of Twilight....I read Twilight in two days and New Moon in not even a full 48 hours.....love, love, love them! Can't wait for the movie on Nov 21st....I'm thinking they picked up on The Half Blood Prince opening date. I was going to pick up Eclipse this afternoon in WalMart, but they had all three but it :( Simply fasinated the Edward & Bella's love..love it, love it!

Well, I suffered from a ghastly migraine today and am feeling rather tired because of it......I think a little lights out w/ the tv is in order!

It's All About the Intro!!!

Ok, so I really have no idea what I'm doing or how it'll look....but here goes!!!!!!!!!!

Allright, well, it took waaay too long to add that picture. I'm sure there has to be a quicker way. :) This pic was taken while in Pigeon Forge at our chalet this summer before I started the hospital,umm, somewhere around July 4th.