One Wonderful Year. . .and many more to come.

P planned a wonderful evening for our one year anniversary... We had dinner in Malibu. The sunset over the ocean was beautiful.
Duke's is a great restaurant. We highly recommend the Shrimp!
P also surprised me with flowers that he picked out and arranged himself. Didn't he do an amazing job?! The card that came with them was really sweet.

On the way Home...

Graduation Day! Yes, P spoke at his graduation and did an EXCELLENT Job!

Family and Friends Graduation Dinner

Graduating Class Rotunda Dinner

Thomas Jefferson's grave

Monticello

We had a great time with P's parents when they came out to Virginia for paul's graduation.

Is this not the most amazing spoon you have every seen?

New York, New York

I had a great time with my cousins in New York City this past weekend. . . Time square was filled with excitement as usual. . .

I went to my first Broadway play. . .It was wonderful!
I took this picture for Paul. Ernst & Young has an awesome office building right in Time Square!
The last time I went to NY was three weeks before September 11th. It was heart breaking to visit Ground Zero and be reminded of the great tragedy that occured.
It is so incredible to drive down the streets of Manhattan and see the LDS temple!

The Lake

We decided that we needed to play on the Fourth of July. It had been a while since I had gone swimming in a lake and it was pretty nasty, but I got over it and we had a really fun day.

This weekend we went out and tubed the river with some of my co-workers. Again, the water was gross, but it was totally worth it!

Washington D.C.

I Love the D.C. Temple!

After going to the temple P and I bought all day passes for the Metro and cruised all over the city. We had an absolute blast! There is so much to see and so little time. We have plans to return before the summer is over.














P was part of the Washington Seminar program two years ago. It was great seeing where he lived etc. We also enjoyed meeting some of the BYU students that are in the program this summer.
We had a delicious sea food dinner on the banks of a stream that runs into the Potomac River.

The Washington Monument . . . I have yet to go to the top, but someday. . . Isn't it beautiful!





The new World War II monument is really well done, as you can see in the top left picture. It was so fun to sit and relax there. Everyone just takes their shoes off and cools down with their feet soaking in the pool.
There was a culture fair down by the monuments. We saw some really cool things there, one of them being this truck! Pretty sweet huh. I also had my first Mango Lassie. Yum! Yum!

Manly Facial Hair...NOT!

It all began about ten years ago when I started growing facial hair. Every so often, I would abstain from shaving for a period of time to evaluate my "manly" facial hair. Well, it has been a while since the last time I had the opportunity to evaluate my ability to grow facial hair. Well, I am sad to report that it doesn't look much different than it did when I was 15. Oh well...

I attached two pictures as evidence. I concluded that I just was not meant to have facial hair. It's that plain and simple...

THE TRUTH: L didn't like kissing me with the facial hair so it certainly behooved me to get rid of it. ;-)

Hark an ARK!

Did you get the flood memo? We didn't! Turns out they are filming the sequel to Bruce Almighty here. No wonder why we saw John Goodman when we went out to dinner last weekend! Our friends tell us when they are filming during the week they have all sorts of animals out there, like Giraffes, elephants, etc. Two of each of course.

PIGAPALOOZA 2006! (I can't believe I ate that!)

Welcome to our summer home. We had a fun Saturday pig roast with a bunch of the people from P's program. P was in charge of the volleyball tournament. You can see him in action in the picture above. (he is in the middle)

Lights out Scrabble

There was a HUGE thunder storm the first week we were here. The electricity went out and we ended up playing scrabble by candle light.

Carthage

Nauvoo, The City Beautiful!

It was so great to go back to my old stomping grounds and give P a tour. We stopped at the Mill and Bakery and bought a loaf of banana bread, but forgot a knife. That didn't stop Paul:) We went down to the Mississippi early in the morning before we left and I was so excited to see a mama goose with her goslings. You can imagine how ecstatic I was when I looked to my right across the field and saw 10+ mama geese with their goslings! I LOVE Nauvoo!