February 28, 2009 
Oh yeah, I'm an 'after' now. I've always wanted to be an 'after."
This is Lucy's "Velocaraptor" look. Doesn't it look like she is trying to figure out how to attack you?
Actual walls.Very nice as well.
And as usual this:
equals this: (regardless of how often I mop).
Lucy may drive us crazy. Literally crazy. 2 am temper tatrums, "accidents" in the house, and tons of energy. But seriously, how could I not love this face?
Oso doesn't know what to do. His bed just keeps getting stolen. First it was a baby, now it's a puppy.
Here she is, trying to get her toy without giving up Oso's bed.
The stairs landing is getting crowded.
Jen came over and played with us for a while. We wore her out and in the middle of playing she curled up in Jen's lap and took a nap. That's when we found out she snores. Loudly.
What a great trip. Now we are back home and tomorrow it's back to work. The dogs were really happy to see us. Marley hasn't left my side.
My cousin, Melissa, and her husband, Jamie, live about 3 hours away. They knew we were coming and planned a trip to DC for the weekend so we would be there at the same time. They knew the city really well so they took us on a tour of Georgetown.
We went passed the U.S. Naval Observatory. The Vice President's house is somewhere around here, but we weren't sure where.
So we took a picture of the "Master Clock" at exactly 12:28.
They then took us on a tour of the city in their car. It was nice to see the city from a warm car... and not have to walk anywhere for a change. They then drove us down to the DC Temple. It was a gorgeous temple.
They then took us out to the nicest dinner we've had all week (an understatement, really, considering what we've eaten all week. More like the nicest dinner. Period.) at a really yummy place called Oceanaire. Oh yeah, that place was awesome. If you're reading this, Thanks Melissa and Jamie! We REALLY enjoyed spending the day with you!
We are using Collin's laptop while we are here and I don't have any other pictures from our wedding day other than the one on my blog so this picture will have to do. Here is to the 6 most wonderful years of our lives... so far!
A statue in front of the capitol. I can't remember who it was a statue of.
Me, being interested in some random fact our tour guide, Julie (in the red), was pointing out.
Collin, standing between a statue of Alexander Hamilton and Brigham Young. Each state has 2 statues placed throughout the capitol.
Me in the capiltol rotunda.
I am standing in front of a plaster of the statue that is on the top of the capitol.
Next stop, the museum of Natural History.
We heard the Hope Diamond was tough to see and that we would have to wait in line. We just walked up, stood there, took a few pictures. It was great.
We passed this statue every day on the way to the closest Metro stop. We kind of became fond of it after a while. I am really going to miss DC.
If you don't believe me read this sign:
This is the actual room he died in. 
He was carried to that room after being shot here (it opens NEXT WEEK! lame):
After lunch we headed out to the National Cathedral. ( And you're right, Kira, Collin doesn't smile in pictures. I'm not making him be in the pictures either, he just isn't a smiler. You wouldn't know it, but we are having a really good time!).
This is a random building next to the Cathedral that I actually did make Collin stand in front of for a picture. 
Me, standing on the front porch of Mt. Vernon, in the rain.
The back of Mt. Vernon faces the Potomac River. That tree was supposedly there when George Washington lived there. There I am, standing in front of it, with the geese, in the stupid rain.
We love this place. It's a chain, but I don't think we have them in Utah. We should. Potbelly, if you're listening, come to Utah.
In Potbellys there was this cool flag that had all the states listed with a little drawing of some old fat guy that had something to do with each state.
Our state was represented by good old Brigham Young.
On our way back to the hotel we stumbled across the FBI. It's closed to the public (but the Pentagon isn't?) so we just took a picture of the building where Mulder and Scully used to work.
