MT VERNON!

For Memorial Day Chris and I decided to drive to DC to spend the long weekend with the Vaughans.  Cindy was going to play tour guide and take us to Mt Vernon (George Washington's home).

 replica of the house

Maddie was most excited to see the animals...  pigs

chickens!

love doing stuff like this now that chris is back!

maddie and her sheep!

george and mary washington's tomb

this was really nice.  they had a whole area dedicated to his slaves

LOVE the name of this...

three at once!

seeing if it smelled in there

 people dancing out in back of the house

self portraits!

cindy took one of us so we could see the whole back of the house... too bad i didn't take any pictures of the front of the house!

we went to see the MRS! 

apparently the REAL Mary Washington wasn't as voluptuous!

happy!  this room had air conditioning!  (this was after we were stuck in the rain!)

went into a gift shop... i think this was the most interesting thing!!!

HIS TEETH!!!

stuffed horse?

i think so...

this wasn't at Mt Vernon but i had to take a picture!!!  

this is what my parents call me :)

GA loves being at Frank and Cindy's house!

It was such a fun trip up to DC!

spring is here!

What a surprise to see in the corner of the dog park!

A BIRD NEST!

The sign basically said that if a person or dog disturbs the nest that they would right the perspective owner/person a ticket! 

 cute little birdies!

close up... digital zoom, sorry!  didn't want to get a ticket for getting too close!

just for fun

random

Hats and Horse Races

Drove down to DC to go to a horse race with Cindy, Frank, Maddie, Evan and Francis.

so excited to be wearing hats!  Made the day much more comfortable!  I'm considering doing this more often! 

trying to find our tent

lovely couple Francis and Evan

kilts!

random group of people with (real) stuffed animals on their cars

at our tent

all the girls!

 

proud of my name!!!

lovely girls (frank said my dressed looked nice against the grass!  haha)

other side of the table 

lots and lots of people were there!

near the winners circle

self portraits

steeple races

hats hats and more hats!

winner circle

this little girl won the first race!  she is only 13!!!

 during the races everyone came from the tents to watch!

 here they come!

over the jump and water feature!

This is where the other tent was we went to... notice the trash bags in the background.

Maddie with a bunch of her work friends!

Showing her battle wounds while taking GA on a walk earlier in the day...  I guess GA wanted to take a big stick home with her and it attacked Maddie

having a ball!

Maddie!

the view from the other tent!

a bunch of the horses lost their riders and i guess they just wanted to continue the race!

i love this picture!

betting stats book 

our souvenir! a blanket that folds up!  

perfect to keep in the car

It was a great first time to the horse races!  I had a great time hanging out with the extended family!!!

 Thanks to Frank and Cindy for being my surrogate parents!  Love them!

love her!

"Do I have something on my lip?"

Ga loves to chew on cardboard so I thought I would be a good dog mom and indulge her while Chris is gone.  I was reading in bed this morning when she came up to me looking like this.  (ignore the pile of cloths behind her - note this is only because Chris is out of town :) )

How could you not love this face?!

higgins's best friend baby

I just came across this photo.  Its from about 3 or 4 years ago when I used to live with my friend Cat (a girl not a real cat) and she ended up getting a kitten named Magnum (who everyone just calls Baby)(and is sitting in Katie's purse).

Love this pic of my sister taking a picture of her on my old phone so there are two images!  

Miss living with you and the baby, Catty!

loved this sign