1st Day of School

 Sophomore

3rd graders

 These two were pretty excited for the first day of school

Up early and dressed in their matching outfits

Wedding Trip

We always love it when one of Paul's brother's kids get married

Because it means a trip to Washington DC!

Paul and I love DC 

even in August it was "cool"

Jamie and Logan after being married
in the Washington DC temple

the bride with her sisters
(and someone's arm who got in the way)

Tina with her beautiful daughter

Paul and I front of the temple

 We took some time after the wedding to go see the monuments, again, in DC.  Even though we've seen them a couple of times we never get tired of walking around to see them.  This time we started out at the Lincoln and walked all the way around the Tidal Basin and saw all of the monument.  It was a great afternoon/evening.

Can't resist this type of cheesy photo

Me in front of the Lincoln Memorial

The Korean War memorial is definitely one of my favorites
so haunting and real

The Jefferson in the background is one of Paul's favorites

It was cool to go see the new MLK monument
Its back under construction due to politics of one of the quotes on the monument

The Washington Monument ensconced in scaffolding
to repair damage from a recent earthquake

The Roosevelt monument is so impressive

making our way around the Tidal Basin
the Jefferson from the other side

a little out of order - photos from different phones, cameras

fun app i downloaded

looking very much like the tourist that I am

After seeing all the monuments we drove up to Steve and Tina's - about an hour north of Philadelphia and checked into our hotel.  We helped get ready for the reception which was on Sat after the wedding on Thursday.  Jess headed up a group of ladies (and a few brother helpers when needed) to transform the church into a beautiful reception.

Jamie's cake

Paul with his dad

Jess, wedding planner, with her daughter Anna

the handsome couple

Logan and Jamie with grandpa

 Paul's brother owns this very cool corvette and he let me  sit in.  Paul even got to drive it.

What a fun get away!

All American

What's more American than Baseball?

With Elsa staying with us from France 

and it was her first time to America,

we figured we had to take her to a baseball game.

It worked out that we went on Pioneer Day.

It was perfect weather

and we could go with the Byers family

which was good since they are a 

baseball family

this photo is so funny
because Kyson is the baseball player and looks bored
and Jared has never played baseball and looks like he's having fun

little photo bomber

baseball ninja

Elsa after eating cotton candy.
I love how she says it in French
something like
ba-ba-baba
it means papa's beard

nothing makes a baseball game more fun
than a package of washable markers

Elsa at the Bees game

Paul was really gettin into it
It actually was a really great game and very exciting win
for the bees in the last inning

The best part were the fireworks after the game

Elsa with the Bees mascot

Brooke and her friend Annee