Buddy and His feet washing method

I recently finished my series of posts on our family's trip to Washington D.C. Now it is time to get back to the story of this family and my adorable brother "Buddy" Who does this face (see above) and washes his feet with them sticking out of the water (see below) with his shorts all wet and his knees submerged in the water. The poor boy has some issues. Maybe it is because he just has too many sisters. Cleaning himself this way was one of the few things that I did not teach him. He came up with this all by himself. At least he was being creative!
Awhile ago I started teaching Sweet Pea how to ride a bike. She is now finally getting the hang of it even with a slightly too big of a bike. She just kept ridding and superman just kept ridding along. She is becoming such a big girl! Great Job sweet Pea! I am very proud of you!
Sweet Pea getting started on her bike
Sweet Pea ridding along
Superman and Sweet Pea discussing something

I have video of sweet Pea ridding her bike, and I planed to share. However, I am having trouble loading video on to the blog. Maybe another time I will share and then again maybe not! Have a great day. Let me know what you think of Buddy and his feet washing method in the comment section!

Second Day: Jefferson Memorial, Arlington Cemetary, Iwo jima- Part Seven

This is the seventh and final post on a series of posts about our family's trip to Washington D.C. To read from the beginning of the story scroll down the page until you see a post entitled Intro Post. The pictures in these posts are not all of my pictures from the weekend. To see all of my pictures click here.

Jefferson Memorial:
The next thing that we saw after the Air and Space Museum was the Jefferson Memorial. From the memorial we could see the Washington Monument and the White House.
Superman and Sweet Pea at the Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial

Arlington Cemetery:
The next thing that we saw was a the Arlington National Cemetery. When you walk in you just see rows and rows of white tomb stones of people who died fighting for you in war. We just kept walking and came to President Kennedy's grave and the Eternal Flame. Next we walked to the tomb of the unknown soldier and the changing of the guard.
Arlington
JFK grave

Eternal Flame
Changing of the guard
Tomb of the unknown soldier

Iwo Jima:
The last thing that we did in Washington D.C. before making our way home was see the Iwo Jima memorial. It was a good finish to our patriotic trip to our nations capital.
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima

That is all for our trip to Washington D.C. trip in 2009. I hope that you enjoyed reading about it and see all of the pictures. I hope that it was not to long. I made a slide show of more pictures put to music that I had every intention of posting here for you to see, but it would not load. Maybe some day I will get it up and then again maybe not! Have a great day!

19 Years ago

19 Years ago today God united my Parents in marriage. 4 kids and a few gray hairs latter they are still trudging along. They will tell you that marriage takes work, but they wouldn't have it any other way. They see marriage as a Love worth giving. I am thankful for the role model that they are to me and my siblings. They are not the typical husband and wife/ Parents as they choose the large family, home schooling, self employment and the list goes on and on, Though they are the fist to admit that they nor there marriage is perfect. However, I could not have asked for a better marriage to stare at every day. They love each other. They love me and my siblings, but the glue that holds us together is Jesus Christ who died Once For All.
Thank You Mom and Dad for being my parents and being the role models that you are. I hope that I can be like you when I grow up! I love you!

Second Day: Air and Space Museam- Part Six

This is the sixth post in a series of posts on our family's recent trip to Washington D.C. To read from the beginning of the story please scroll down the page until you see a post entitled Intro Post. I took over 600 pictures during our trip. The pictures used in this post are not all of them. To see all of my pictures click here.

Air and Space Museum:
The next stop that we made was another air and space museum. This is not the same museum that this post was on. This museum was smaller in size, but the objects in the museum where by no means small. This hanger is now home to the Concord, Enola Gay, and the Enterprise to name a few. It was incredible.

This was the Concord.
Enola Gay:
The Enola Gay was a B-29 Bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan at the end of WWII. It was an amazing thing to see. The pictures are bad because the lighting in the hanger was poor.

The Enola Gay

The Enterprise:
It was so cool to see a space ship up close and personal.

That is all for now!

Second Day: WWII Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Lincoln Monument, Vietnam Memorial- Part Five

This is the fifth post in a series of posts on our family's trip to Washington D.C. To read from the beginning of the story please scroll down the page until yo see a post entitled Intro Post.

The pictures used in these posts are not all of the pictures that I took on the trip as I took over 600. To see all of my pictures click here.

WWII Memorial:
The WWII memorial was the next stop that we made. The above collage is pictures of all of the inscriptions that are on the walls. It was good to remember all of the people who fought and died for our Country. Not just in WWII, but in all of the wars that our country has fought in. This post focuses on that as this post is about Memorial and Monuments.


The WWII Memorial

Korean War Memorial:
The Korean War Memorial was the next stop in Washington D.C. This Memorial has a wall with just faces on it. No names. Just faces. It also has statues.
The statues in the Korean War Memorial

A wall in the Korean War Memorial that says "Freedom is not Free"

The Lincoln Monument:
The Lincoln Monument was the next stop. It was very big and had a lot of steps.
All of them walking to the Lincoln Monument
Lincoln

Vietnam Memorial:
The Vietnam Memorial is the last thing that I am going to talk about in this post. In this memorial there is a statue and a really long wall of name after name of people who died for our country in Vietnam. Some of them are MIAs and others are confirmed dead. Some people look at the statue below and comment on how young they looked.
That is all for now. Have a great day!

Second Day: Fords Theater, Petterson- Part Four

This is the forth post in a series of posts on our family's trip to Washington D.C. To read from the beginning of the story scroll down the page until you see a post entitled Intro Post.

This post focuses on the first leg of our journey on the second day. In this post I will share with you about Ford's Theater. The pictures posted in this post are just some of them. To see all of my pictures click here.

FORDS THEATER:
Fords theater is the place where Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. It was a great peace of history. The information was great that was given by the ranger, However, His presentation needed a little help. O' well, We enjoyed it and Sweet Pea really learned a lot. She knew what happened and who killed Lincoln.
A really bad picture of the both that Lincoln shotThis is a replica of the booth that Lincoln was shot
Peterson House:

The Peterson house is the house that Lincoln died at 7 something that next morning. This was a good stop that really finish off this leg.
this is a replica of the room that Lincoln died in.
This is a replica of the bed that Lincoln died in.
That is all for now. Have a great day.- Halfcup

First Day: Washington Monument, White House, Camping- Part Three

This is the third post in a series of posts on our family's trip to Washington D.C. To read from the beginning of the story you can scroll down the page until you see a post entitled Intro Post.

This post focuses on the next leg of our journey which was the Washington Monument,the White House, and where we stayed which was a camp ground.

Washington Monument:
This was the next thing that we saw after the Air and space mu seam. We walked the mall to go and take pictures. Instead of posting a lot of pictures I made a collage of pictures. To see all of my pictures click here. Leave a comment and let me know what kind of pictures you like.

The Washington Monument is to remember our first President. to read more about the Washington Monument click here.
White House:

Our next stop was the White House. We stopped to look and take pictures of the white house on the first day and the second day. Please note that some of these pictures are from the second day, but I will not post again on the White House.

The White House is the house that our president lives in while he is in office. In some of the pictures you can even see the snipers that stood on top of the building.
Camping:
I love to camp. I really, really, really enjoy camping. I say that we camped this past weekend, but really we just slept in a tent and took a shower at the shower house, and ate breakfast outside. I enjoyed it, but it was not camping so please do not be miss lead. We slept in a tent and it rained, and Wonder woman did not appreciate it. When we camp we do not normally sleep in, but this day we did. Above is a picture of the fire.
our canopy
Buddy when he wakes up!
Buddy being happy
Dad
Well, that is all that I have for now. Leave me a comment and tell me what picture you like best. Or just leave me a comment to let me know that you are following a long!- Halfcup