A Birthday!

This weekend we were able to celebrate Hans’ Birthday!

His family sent him this cute card! I love it! He was such a cute little boy :)

On Hans’ birthday, we decided to do some sightseeing in DC…. It was a little bit of a rough start since we drove around for a long time looking for parking… In the crazy DC traffic….. I feel bad for the people I see in cars when I’m walking around in DC… even though we have been walking for miles and we are drenched in sweat.

We were able to go to the National Art Gallery

Then we made our way to the National Monument. Hans really wanted to ride all the way to the top of it, but the tickets were all gone.

Here is a picture of the Capitol…. we haven’t actually been all the way to the grounds yet….

The Lincoln Memorial is directly across from the Washington Monument. I told Hans that we should start walking to it after we were done at the Washington Monument, but he said it was too far to walk. I had to agree because it was SO hot, and even though it looked close, it would still be about a mile….. further from where we were parked.

The sad thing is, they are doing construction on the reflection pool…. I don’t know why they would do that during the biggest tourist season. It should normally look like this:

And this:

Kinda lame that it is all dirt right now!

We also walked over the the Holocaust museum, but they were all out of tickets for that too… And when we went to go see the National Archives, there was a huge line outside that we didn’t want to wait in…. It wasn’t a very lucky day for us…

Hans decided her wanted to have dinner at an Italian place that has great pizza!

It was Delicious :)

That night we had our friends over for a little party.

Isn’t he so cute?

I mean… Handsome?

Yes… yes he is

Happy Birthday to my Wonderful Husband!

Busy Busy Busy

We have been busy! But I’m going to try and bust out a quick blog post… It’s good to keep track of these things, because I know later on in life I’m going to want to go back and remember what it was like!

This weekend was a fun one! We had some more family in town, so it was crazy, but so fun!

On Friday night we went and had dinner and played games with some friends, and it was great :)

On Saturday morning  ( hence the pajamas) , my cousin Boston asked me to “play chalk” with him. So I did…. Love that little boy!

Hans of course, joined us, and we made a flag… we are so artistic

Here are my cousins Boston and Avery. Avery was a little too shy to smile for me.

Uncle Jimmy and Hans, they look happy…..

That day we got together with friends, and did a boat cruise on the Potomac river. It is the river that goes through Virginia and Maryland

As shown in the picture, when you are on the river, you can get a great view of the monuments in Washington DC. We will also be visiting them each separately. but going through the river on a boat was way cool!

The capitol in the distance

Washington Monument

And the back of the Lincoln Memorial

We also went to dinner, and we had to walk around downtown to be able to get to the metro….

I know it’s normal to see hobos walking around downtown, but to gets me every time. I laugh, and it really gives me the downtown feel…. if you know what I mean.

 

There are also always people playing music and doing different “talent” like things on the sides of the street, which is fun.

This one guy we saw, was so good! He was making music with glasses filled with water, and I was amazed!

I also was able to have my first experience on the metro. Yes. Once is enough for me.

On the fourth of July We went to a fair during the day, and we also did some shopping.

( If my old roommates are reading this… those last 2 pictures totally remind me of them! Lanette and Brittany!)

That night we also did some firework and had some amazing food!

Yesterday, we both went back to work, and we are busy again.

Our schedule is:

Wake up at 7 AM. I take Hans to the metro, which he rides for 45 min to get to work. When I get back home from dropping him off, I get ready for the day and go to work.

After I’m done working, I come home for just a little while, and then Hans calls me to come pick him up. I After we get home, it’s already 7 or after 7 PM. Which gives us a few hours to catch up on things at home, and then we’re back in bed again! Crazy days!

I was able to go with Megan to pick up our finished pottery.

They turned out way cute!

I love it!

We also made Tie Dye T-shirts a while back. And we modeled them! Hans took our pictures :)

I can’t believe that the east coast is actually starting to grow on me ! Gasp! I’m actually liking it! I think it helps that we are able to be here with such great family and friends. And the good thing is, we get to take our friends back to Idaho with us…. couldn’t get better than that!

Saturday is Hans’ birthday. 26! Over the hill for sure!

On Friday we will also be at the Half-way mark.  5 weeks, which means we only have 5 more weeks left! And I don’t know if I am happy or sad about that….

It’s Friday Again!

I’m so Excited for the 4th of July weekend! It’s going to be Epic! My Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Brittany got here yesterday with their little kids, and the fun has already started!

So it’s Friday, and I couldn’t think of anything frugal that was worth mentioning, so….

Here is a picture of Something cute I am going  to make this weekend

And here are some other pictures of cupcakes I thought were cute

Oh how I love summer!