Sunday, March 29, 2009
The Lincoln Memorial
Here is the Lincoln Memorial. It was so amazing! I was just in awe over the entire trip. Tyson and Abby had a blast.
The Korean Memorial
Here are some pictures of the Korean War Memorial. This one was very moving. We had such a good time. There are 19 Statutes and with their reflection in the granite it makes for the image of 38 soldiers representing those that came home and the shadows of the ones that are not home. There was a refecting pool and the wall of images.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
If you Build it
Here is a shot of Uncle Bud, he hates to have his picture taken, but Tyson managed to snap one of him anyway! He works on Harley's for the Washington DC Police Department. Love him.
Here is another picture courtesy of Tyson of his Pap in the recliner fixing the slinky that they kids stretched out so far and then got it all tangled up.
Here is a picture of Abby with Casey and Casey is sitting down a little bit so you can't really see that she is as tall as Abby is!
We told Abby that we were going to go shopping and she got her purse. If you ask any good stylish almost two year old what they need in their purse it is a pair of sunglasses and a binky and that is exactly what she has in her purse! So cute.
Another Tyson picture he cut of Barry's head, but that is ok. We don't mind at all.
We went to the mall here in Virginia where we are staying with Aunt Vickie and Uncle Bud and we took Abby to the Build a Bear workshop for her birthday bear and she immediatley picked out a monkey...shocker! It is pink with hearts and a white belly. She named her Maggi the Monkey and it even has velcro paws! I love it. She did adopt it and the stats are that it was born today and it is 19 inches long and weighs 6.7 ounces and has pink hair and black eyes. They guy running the cash register even put in hairbows for her (they didn't last long). She toted the monkey around and we didn't think that she was going to let the lady stuff her because she would have to relinquish the monkey, but she did!
Here is a shot of Abby and Barry pressing the peddle to start filling up Maggi. After the fill up she got to kiss the heart and put the heart in Maggi. It was so cute! This is her first build a bear and I have a feeing that we will be going back several times this year to do a few more, we all had so much fun.
Here is Abby with a finished Maggi! She is telling the lady thank you in case you are wondering what she is doing!
Here is a shot of Tyson with his new Penn State hat purchased by his Grammy and Pap for his birthday he also got some new clothes and so did Abby for their birthdays. We had a good trip to the mall and a great trip to the museums today and can't wait until tomorrow to do the tour and get to see all the sites! Enjoy your Friday everyone. I will leave you with Tyson's smiling face!
Here is another picture courtesy of Tyson of his Pap in the recliner fixing the slinky that they kids stretched out so far and then got it all tangled up.
Here is a picture of Abby with Casey and Casey is sitting down a little bit so you can't really see that she is as tall as Abby is!
We told Abby that we were going to go shopping and she got her purse. If you ask any good stylish almost two year old what they need in their purse it is a pair of sunglasses and a binky and that is exactly what she has in her purse! So cute.
Another Tyson picture he cut of Barry's head, but that is ok. We don't mind at all.
We went to the mall here in Virginia where we are staying with Aunt Vickie and Uncle Bud and we took Abby to the Build a Bear workshop for her birthday bear and she immediatley picked out a monkey...shocker! It is pink with hearts and a white belly. She named her Maggi the Monkey and it even has velcro paws! I love it. She did adopt it and the stats are that it was born today and it is 19 inches long and weighs 6.7 ounces and has pink hair and black eyes. They guy running the cash register even put in hairbows for her (they didn't last long). She toted the monkey around and we didn't think that she was going to let the lady stuff her because she would have to relinquish the monkey, but she did!
Here is a shot of Abby and Barry pressing the peddle to start filling up Maggi. After the fill up she got to kiss the heart and put the heart in Maggi. It was so cute! This is her first build a bear and I have a feeing that we will be going back several times this year to do a few more, we all had so much fun.
Here is Abby with a finished Maggi! She is telling the lady thank you in case you are wondering what she is doing!
Here is a shot of Tyson with his new Penn State hat purchased by his Grammy and Pap for his birthday he also got some new clothes and so did Abby for their birthdays. We had a good trip to the mall and a great trip to the museums today and can't wait until tomorrow to do the tour and get to see all the sites! Enjoy your Friday everyone. I will leave you with Tyson's smiling face!
Smithsonians
So, we went into the city today and first we went to the Museum of American History and then we walked all around downtown and then we went to the Museum of Natural History. Below are some shots of the museums. We had a great time and I have all the pics on my myspace page if anyone wants to see all of them. We are now back at Aunt Vicki's and are going to go to the city again tomorrow and do a tour of all of the major sites. It is cherry blossom festival time and the trees are so pretty. We are having a blast and I am sad to have to come home on Saturday but I know that I need to get back to work and Abby needs to get back into a routine. Abby is doing really well and Aunt Vicki has a greyhound named Tina and a huge Labordoodle named Casey. I will try to get a good picture of Abby with the dogs so that you can see just how big they are they are so cute! Abby loves them. Also they have a slinky, remember those? Well, they have a regular one and a small one and Abby and Tyson have been playing with them and having fun with those. I am going to be sad to see this trip end, but grateful to be back in my bed! Enjoy the pictures.
After the diamond, someone sacked out.
The Hope Diamond, who wants to buy this for me?
Watch out Tyson
Barry, Tyson and Abby in the Museum of Natural History
Just nice, couldn't tell you what building that is but I loved the shot so here it is. I am going to turn abunch of these into black and whites and then put them in a phot book.
Museum of Natural History, we were also at the one on American History
The old Post Office, beautiful isnt' it
Post Office
The dress that Laura Bush wore at the Inagural Ball in 2001
Sweet ride, maybe Abby's first car, I know that this one would be safe for her...or is it that it would be safe for all the other drivers?
A picture of me in the Smithsonian on the Natural History
Here is a picture of Barry, Tyson and Abby in front of the Washington Monument.
And finally, a shot of the Treasury Department, think anyone is working in there or are they all just taking a nap?
After the diamond, someone sacked out.
The Hope Diamond, who wants to buy this for me?
Watch out Tyson
Barry, Tyson and Abby in the Museum of Natural History
Just nice, couldn't tell you what building that is but I loved the shot so here it is. I am going to turn abunch of these into black and whites and then put them in a phot book. 
Museum of Natural History, we were also at the one on American History
The old Post Office, beautiful isnt' it
Post Office
The dress that Laura Bush wore at the Inagural Ball in 2001
Sweet ride, maybe Abby's first car, I know that this one would be safe for her...or is it that it would be safe for all the other drivers?
A picture of me in the Smithsonian on the Natural History
Here is a picture of Barry, Tyson and Abby in front of the Washington Monument.
And finally, a shot of the Treasury Department, think anyone is working in there or are they all just taking a nap?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Running Wild in Pennsylvania
She shoots she scores! A friendly game of air hockey with her dad! IT was so cute, the little diva kept getting closer and closer to her dad and his goal! We have had such a good time and are sad that we can't see everyone more often, maybe we can get them to Arkansas more often as well! Tomorrow night we will be headed to Virginia to stay with Uncle Bud and Aunt Vicki and then Thursday and Friday it is tours of Washington DC, and the cherry blossom festival is in full effect so we should have a good time amongst all of the other tourist that will the coving the city!
This is what it looks like when someone gets into your make up bag and finds the darker shades of eye shadow. The bump on her nose if from a slip and fall on the stairs. it really looks worse than it is. When I took her upstaris to the bathroom to wash her face she looked in the mirror and started to cry and was going "what happened?" I told her that I didn't do it and that she was the one that put on the make up and she said fix it and then she called me a bad mommy for her face! How funny! She is just full of spunk and always surprising me with all that she can say and everything that she knows.
Abby has her Pap Pap wrapped around her little fingers! She hasn't seen him since last year when we were up here for his wife, our Grammy's funeral but she remembered her Pap Pap and had him playing with elephants with her and his was laughing at her resolve and determination not to go to sleep. 
This is what it looks like when someone gets into your make up bag and finds the darker shades of eye shadow. The bump on her nose if from a slip and fall on the stairs. it really looks worse than it is. When I took her upstaris to the bathroom to wash her face she looked in the mirror and started to cry and was going "what happened?" I told her that I didn't do it and that she was the one that put on the make up and she said fix it and then she called me a bad mommy for her face! How funny! She is just full of spunk and always surprising me with all that she can say and everything that she knows.
Abby has her Pap Pap wrapped around her little fingers! She hasn't seen him since last year when we were up here for his wife, our Grammy's funeral but she remembered her Pap Pap and had him playing with elephants with her and his was laughing at her resolve and determination not to go to sleep. 
After our visit with Pap Pap we stopped by the Spring Dam there in Roaring Spring and the kids fed the fishes and the ducks. We even saw three ducks gang up on another one and keep pushing his head under water and biting him! I soon found myself joing in with the kids shouting out "stop it ducky, mean ducky and bad ducky" Abby and I couldnt understand why the ducks were ganging up on the little guy, but we sure didn't like it and we wanted it to stop! I had to just laugh at myself when the little guy got away because I sounded like a little kid! But, I hated to see that and didn't want anything to happen to the little one because he was cute and the pond was plenty big enough for them all!
After feeding the ducks and the fish we walked around the park and we found a tree with a bunch of carvings and found where Barry's grandfather had carved his initials in the tree HRSlim in 1943! Amazing! You have to love that you can randomally look at a tree and find the carvings of your grandfather!
After our visit with Pap Pap and our trip to the park to feed the animals we made a stop by the cemetary to visit the grave of Grammy. It has almost been a year since she has passed and I am glad that we were able to visit with family this trip under better circumstances.
Missy and Bill cooked dinner for the family tonight so we were down there for supper. Their daughter Brooke is only 9 months old and went to bed early. When she was down Abby decided that she needed to play on the jumparoo that was Brooke's. There is video that I will post. It was hilarious as she is way too big to be in this thing, but she was having such a good time. Check out the video posted below and how do you love this hair! Hilarious right! Thanks MiMi for that one.
Abby really loves her Uncle Alan and didn't want him to be out of her sight when ever he was around. Tonight was the last night we would get to see him. Good luck on your exam on Friday Alan!
And after all today's excitement I am pround to report that she is finally asleep for the evening. It is yet to be determined if she will end up in bed with Barry and I again, I can't wait to have a full evening with the bed to myself again (well and with Barry I guess!) but at the same time I really don't mind having her little sassy self cuddled up with me at night. I feel like I am protecting her all night long when she is with me in bed. I love it. It is also making me think, maybe she is ready for a big girl bed even if I am not ready for her to have one yet!
After feeding the ducks and the fish we walked around the park and we found a tree with a bunch of carvings and found where Barry's grandfather had carved his initials in the tree HRSlim in 1943! Amazing! You have to love that you can randomally look at a tree and find the carvings of your grandfather!
After our visit with Pap Pap and our trip to the park to feed the animals we made a stop by the cemetary to visit the grave of Grammy. It has almost been a year since she has passed and I am glad that we were able to visit with family this trip under better circumstances.
Missy and Bill cooked dinner for the family tonight so we were down there for supper. Their daughter Brooke is only 9 months old and went to bed early. When she was down Abby decided that she needed to play on the jumparoo that was Brooke's. There is video that I will post. It was hilarious as she is way too big to be in this thing, but she was having such a good time. Check out the video posted below and how do you love this hair! Hilarious right! Thanks MiMi for that one.
Abby really loves her Uncle Alan and didn't want him to be out of her sight when ever he was around. Tonight was the last night we would get to see him. Good luck on your exam on Friday Alan!
And after all today's excitement I am pround to report that she is finally asleep for the evening. It is yet to be determined if she will end up in bed with Barry and I again, I can't wait to have a full evening with the bed to myself again (well and with Barry I guess!) but at the same time I really don't mind having her little sassy self cuddled up with me at night. I feel like I am protecting her all night long when she is with me in bed. I love it. It is also making me think, maybe she is ready for a big girl bed even if I am not ready for her to have one yet!
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