Aunt Aleta comes to visit...

Long time with no updates! January was kind of a cold, boring month here. The highlight of the whole month was when my sister Aleta (Ali) came for a few days to visit! The kids were so excited! We had a great time--we walked downtown around the Memorials--it was very cold but
Ali is from Michigan so she's used to that kind of cold. We also went to the American History Museum (my favorite) and went to the top of the Washington Monument which everyone liked. Thank you Ali for coming--we love you! Come back soon with whole family.


Ali and girls at the WWII Memorial and Cameron at the Washington

One of my favorite picture spots in DC--the tidal basin with the Jefferson in the back.

Our family enjoying our DC year downtown (even though it is soo cold in these pictures!)

Kelsey at the Jefferson Memorial.

These are just a few of the thousands of porta potties downtown left over from Barack's inauguration which happened a few days before this. It was called the "largest porta potty event" on record. Pretty funny to see them all lined up everywhere!
Many of you have asked if we went to the inauguration and the answer is NO! They shut down most major roads into downtown, and there were over 2 million people in a pretty small area--it sounded like a nightmare to make it downtown and I can't imagine taking 3 kids. If Blaine and I could have just gone without kids and not worried about being gone for a really long time I think we would have tried. But it was also about 20 degrees that day, so we just stayed at home and watched it on TV--until Blaine had to turn off the tv because he couldn't listen to Barack any longer.