Expanding

EXCUSE #4: This is the biggest, most exciting, and final excuse to my lack of blogging. I've been sick and tired. Not as sick though as with Peanut. Yay! I have been able to sleep and have not had any 3am movie sessions with a trash can in one arm and a glass of ginger ale in the other. Thank goodness.That makes me think it's a girl. I can only hope since we have that big box of washed and un-used girl clothes and very girly name waiting to be used. We can't wait and are so excited to expand our little family!

Birthdaying

REASON/EXCUSE #3: Birthdaying (verb)
I'm noticing that I make up words a lot on this blog.  It's my blog, right? 

Birthdaying is what I was doing last weekend with Rob, Peanut and Katie. We had a grand time! The day started off with some crunchy waffles, made by pizza and breakfast extraordinaire chef, Robbie. Then we were whisked away to this event Women Fly It Forward.  We had not signed up for flights in advance but somehow, my salesman of a sister, finagled a ride for both of us. She even got to fly her plane for a portion of the ride.

I'm guessing most of you have no idea that I've always wanted to be a pilot..so now you know. It's on the short list of goals if I choose to pay for them before I die. This was a really special treat. We had originally stopped by on the pretense that you had to visit this event in order to enter and essay contest to win a free pilot training. So a flight or not, I wanted to win the contest so we had to go. I will be finishing my essay in the upcoming week. Wish me luck.  Since I was lucky enough to get a flight they even interviewed me for the local newspaper as I exited the plane. What a great morning!

After that we made a trip down to DC. It was a beautiful day. The only place we could find parking was near the Tidal Basin, so we decided to see the three memorials on the basin: MLK, FDR and Thomas Jeffereson.  All three were superb. My favorite was the FDR memorial. In a few more weeks I'll get to venture back with my parents and see the basin looking like this:

Following our walk we were about to head up to the national aquarium when we happened upon a rugby game being played in the middle of downtown. So of course I wanted to stop and watch. It was exciting to remember those good times at BYU.  It's such a fun game to watch. I'll take rugby anytime over football.

Post game we decided we were famish so that completed our day. Katie had found a fun restaurant called "Eggspectations", knowing that I love eggs, so we headed to Silver Springs for a little grub. We all thought we'd be there real quick with it being only a wee 8 miles away. Who knew it could take 35 minutes to drive 8 miles. Ha ha. Welcome to a big city, right?

The night ended with a beach ball cake, ice cream and some good conversation with our first house guests in the new place...Hillary, Cameron, Paige and Grant. 

Can't wait to see what 27 brings!

Baby Walks

REASON/EXCUSE #2: This post is long overdue...Peanut is a walker. It's official. It's adorable. He waddles, he waves his hands, he trips and he gets back up. He loves to push and pull things as he walks. For instance, I captured this gem of a photo on our recent adventures through Washington D.C. He so darn big, I just can't believe it. Why do they grow up so fast?...Oh and the reason this is an excuse is it now takes twice as long to get anywhere or do anything because I delusionally tell my self that he'll follow me where I need him to go. Especially out the car or down the stairs when I'm carrying an arm-load of things. Not so my friends, not so.