I had a soup party over at Carrie's last week you can check out the pictures on FB which I will post soon.
It was attended by
Carrie
Keli
Paul
Kelly
Dorsietta
and
Chad
I brought a broccoli cheese soup that I got at the Safeway in Fairfax, Kelly brought a chicken tortilla soup with chips that she got at Costco.
Carrie contributed her house,a salad and some oranges
Paul made some amazing mocktails, virgin pina colada and pomegranate Crystal Light.
Dorsietta brought some popcorn but we never got around to eating it because we were so FULL.
I made the most AMAZING CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES EVER!!!!! if you just google Doubletree cookies then you will find the recipe.
after we ate we retired to Carrie's basement and played games, we played a game called Imaginiff, it is SO FUN. You put everyone's name on the board and then you have these cards and you have to say imagine if this person was doing this and you have different choices. It was so fun and FUNNY!!!
I wont tell you what I accidentally said instead of Elvis's pelvis...but well.. Chad and I laughed until we cried and Dorsietta fell off her chair!!!! pretty funny!!!! :)
Kelly, Carrie, Dorsietta and I stayed up late talking about boys and then Carrie and I stayed up even later talking about boys.
GREAT NIGHT!!!!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Field trip
Last Saturday my friend Carrie, Spike and I went for a hike/walk in Alexandria at a park called Huntley Meadows there was snow on the ground and it was snowing but the weather was not that bad and the snow was not that deep. We had a nice time walking around and taking pictures and talking. I need to be outdoors more! I will put the pictures on FB soon and people can check them out there.
holiday
For New Years Day I was not feeling very well so I did not really do much. I hope that everyone is excited for 2011. Who knows what will happen to any of us this year just make sure that you are happy and that you make good choices. I did set some resolutions, like we all should have.
I want to read 52 books this year. I am on my second one right now.
I want to go to Utah and visit people and also do a session at the Draper and Oquirreh Mountain temples they are the only ones in Utah that are complete that I have not done a session at.
I want to read all the books that Justin's dad wrote.
I want to exercise more.
I want to study and read the scriptures and pray more.
I wish everyone a happy and healthy new 2011... I still don't know what to call it ? I call it two thousand eleven but it seems like everyone else calls it twenty eleven. ..
I want to read 52 books this year. I am on my second one right now.
I want to go to Utah and visit people and also do a session at the Draper and Oquirreh Mountain temples they are the only ones in Utah that are complete that I have not done a session at.
I want to read all the books that Justin's dad wrote.
I want to exercise more.
I want to study and read the scriptures and pray more.
I wish everyone a happy and healthy new 2011... I still don't know what to call it ? I call it two thousand eleven but it seems like everyone else calls it twenty eleven. ..
holiday day 1
for New Years Eve I went and interviewed with my new boss Alicia in the morning, she showed me around the house and I got to know the boys a little bit.
In the evening I went to my friend Elaine's she had a small get together it was attended by about 12 people. Elaine made chocolate waffles with egg nog whip cream and some regular ones too. We played a game called Last Word, watched the ball drop and toasted 2011.
I got home at almost 3AM and there was a HUGE possum on my moms front porch bigger than a house cat! That was scary! I was opening and shutting my Blazer door.. and then I thought there is no sense in scaring it... it will just play dead.. I had on these strappy high heels and I was so annoyed like man if I had my boots on I could at least THEORETICALLY kick it...or have a better chance running from it or SOMETHING...
In the evening I went to my friend Elaine's she had a small get together it was attended by about 12 people. Elaine made chocolate waffles with egg nog whip cream and some regular ones too. We played a game called Last Word, watched the ball drop and toasted 2011.
I got home at almost 3AM and there was a HUGE possum on my moms front porch bigger than a house cat! That was scary! I was opening and shutting my Blazer door.. and then I thought there is no sense in scaring it... it will just play dead.. I had on these strappy high heels and I was so annoyed like man if I had my boots on I could at least THEORETICALLY kick it...or have a better chance running from it or SOMETHING...
Sunday, January 9, 2011
field trip
Over Christmas break I took Bowman and Tenney to the Stabler-Ledbeater Apothecary in Alexandria, VA. My friend Elaine came along with us.
The apothecary is located in Old Town Alexandria they have a gift shop that I could have spent a lot of money in because they had some very cute jewelry in there. While we were waiting for our tour to begin. I talked to the girl behind the desk and she has a degree in museum management....just like that guy at Mt.Vernon remember him? So I asked her if he Obama's had ever toured there. She said the younger daughter Sasha had been on a field trip there with her class but that she was on her lunch break when they came. THAT IS MY NEW QUESTION... I am now going to ask everywhere that I go, Has anyone in the Obama family been here?
Our tour guide was an older gentlemen that I thought did a great job. He showed us how Martha Washington and Robert E. Lee had shopped there. He said that in 1933 that the person that owned the apothecary just walked out and locked the door and left everything as it was. The city of Alexandria bought the building and made it into a museum. The original bottles with the original contents are still there in the same places.
We went upstairs where they had a trap door that the tour guide opened for Bowman and Tenney they had fun looking through it and down on Elaine and I.
We went into a room with a sliding door and it looked like Diagon Alley in there. They had things like Unicorn root ( which is a plant) and Dragons blood ( the pulp of a plant) they even had cocaine, heroin, opium and cannabis, IDK if those things were still full of those things but who knows.
there is another upstairs above that BUT it is not up to code so we were not able to tour that. I had a nice time touring that place and I did get a magnet.
Elaine, Bowman and Tenney also enjoyed their time.
The apothecary is located in Old Town Alexandria they have a gift shop that I could have spent a lot of money in because they had some very cute jewelry in there. While we were waiting for our tour to begin. I talked to the girl behind the desk and she has a degree in museum management....just like that guy at Mt.Vernon remember him? So I asked her if he Obama's had ever toured there. She said the younger daughter Sasha had been on a field trip there with her class but that she was on her lunch break when they came. THAT IS MY NEW QUESTION... I am now going to ask everywhere that I go, Has anyone in the Obama family been here?
Our tour guide was an older gentlemen that I thought did a great job. He showed us how Martha Washington and Robert E. Lee had shopped there. He said that in 1933 that the person that owned the apothecary just walked out and locked the door and left everything as it was. The city of Alexandria bought the building and made it into a museum. The original bottles with the original contents are still there in the same places.
We went upstairs where they had a trap door that the tour guide opened for Bowman and Tenney they had fun looking through it and down on Elaine and I.
We went into a room with a sliding door and it looked like Diagon Alley in there. They had things like Unicorn root ( which is a plant) and Dragons blood ( the pulp of a plant) they even had cocaine, heroin, opium and cannabis, IDK if those things were still full of those things but who knows.
there is another upstairs above that BUT it is not up to code so we were not able to tour that. I had a nice time touring that place and I did get a magnet.
Elaine, Bowman and Tenney also enjoyed their time.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Field Trip
During Christmas Break I took Bowman and Tenney to The National Museum of The American Indian. It is in Washington DC and since it is part of the Smithsonian it is FREE! We took the metro from the Huntington station to L'Enfant Plaza and walked right over to it.
Bowman and Tenney had went there over the summer with their nanny Annie and they were just OK with going there. I had never been there. It opened in about 2004 I think. Outside they had some teepees and other stuff that I took the girls pictures in ..until a guard came and screamed at us and told us they were not for us to take pictures in they were just exhibits.
On the first floor there was a big open area that they use for performances, while we were there they announced that there was going to be a storyteller in that area so we went down there even though Bowman said that sounded REALLY BORING and WHY DID WE HAVE TO GO!!!! I said we are going anyway it could be cool...we got there.. and sat and waited and waited ...no storyteller came... so um yeah...I guess Bowman was right you can't get much more boring then a storyteller NOT SHOWING UP...I did see someone from my ward there, Alicia she had a daughter Genevive that was in the nursery with me so it was nice seeing her there.
On the second floor there was a really cool exhibit called Up Where We belong and it had different native Americans that were involved in music of all different types and kinds. We all got headphones and as we went through the exhibit we pressed different numbers and heard about that artist and what tribe they were from and what they did in music and then we heard a song by them. They had fourteen people and the 14th was Jimi Hendrix they said that there is no proof that Jimi Hendrix has any native American in him but that he did a lot for that culture and appreciated them and honored them by how he dressed. They had a coat of Jimi Hendrix's there so I got a picture of myself with it.
On the third floor they had exhibits of things that native American people had made and large exhibits of native Americans today and things that they are doing and stuff they are involved in. That was interesting.
On the fourth floor they had a movie theater and we went in something that resembled a lodge. it was circular and you had to sit on steps. I sat on the floor. An old Asian lady came and sat very close to Tenney and said thank you honey and hugged her. Tenney said later I can't believe that old Chinese lady hugged me and I just let her keep sitting that close to me...hahahahah so we all sat they had a screen that had three sides so everyone in the room could watch it. We watched a video presentation of Native American way of life for different tribes. the video was projected onto a large white "Indian"blanket what ever was going in the sky was broadcast on the ceiling which was round and whatever was going on the ground was broadcast on a large rock. They also would light up different cases with things that tribe had made when that tribe was on the screen.
After the movie we went to the cafe they had food from lots of different tribes of native American and they don't serve hamburgers there JUST BUFFALO!!! I kinda wanted to try it but I decided against it because I had just had a burger the day before at Five Guys in Frederick so I got some chicken fingers instead. After we ate we went to the gift shop I got a magnet and Bowman got an native American instrument for kids for 5$ and Tenney got a necklace for 5$. I also got a little coin shaped thing that you are supposed to collect from all the Smithsonian's IDK if I will do that but I can tape it in my journal at least. I wanted to get Justin a very cute stuffed beaver that they had but I did not have enough $ for it. Maybe another time.
We walked back to the metro and took the metro back to Alexandria. When we got there Bowman just sat on the car I was like BOWMAN GET OUT OF THERE! The metro man spoke to her to..he was like you need to get out this car I am not going down the line with you in here... I was like Bowman you don't just sit on the metro... you needed to get out of there when Tenney and I did.. she was like well my shoe was off.. I said well when I told you that our stop was NEXT then that is when you needed to put it on and if it was still off then you just needed to carry it out... KIDS!!!!aah!!!! So that is our day at the museum. I think it went well :)
Bowman and Tenney had went there over the summer with their nanny Annie and they were just OK with going there. I had never been there. It opened in about 2004 I think. Outside they had some teepees and other stuff that I took the girls pictures in ..until a guard came and screamed at us and told us they were not for us to take pictures in they were just exhibits.
On the first floor there was a big open area that they use for performances, while we were there they announced that there was going to be a storyteller in that area so we went down there even though Bowman said that sounded REALLY BORING and WHY DID WE HAVE TO GO!!!! I said we are going anyway it could be cool...we got there.. and sat and waited and waited ...no storyteller came... so um yeah...I guess Bowman was right you can't get much more boring then a storyteller NOT SHOWING UP...I did see someone from my ward there, Alicia she had a daughter Genevive that was in the nursery with me so it was nice seeing her there.
On the second floor there was a really cool exhibit called Up Where We belong and it had different native Americans that were involved in music of all different types and kinds. We all got headphones and as we went through the exhibit we pressed different numbers and heard about that artist and what tribe they were from and what they did in music and then we heard a song by them. They had fourteen people and the 14th was Jimi Hendrix they said that there is no proof that Jimi Hendrix has any native American in him but that he did a lot for that culture and appreciated them and honored them by how he dressed. They had a coat of Jimi Hendrix's there so I got a picture of myself with it.
On the third floor they had exhibits of things that native American people had made and large exhibits of native Americans today and things that they are doing and stuff they are involved in. That was interesting.
On the fourth floor they had a movie theater and we went in something that resembled a lodge. it was circular and you had to sit on steps. I sat on the floor. An old Asian lady came and sat very close to Tenney and said thank you honey and hugged her. Tenney said later I can't believe that old Chinese lady hugged me and I just let her keep sitting that close to me...hahahahah so we all sat they had a screen that had three sides so everyone in the room could watch it. We watched a video presentation of Native American way of life for different tribes. the video was projected onto a large white "Indian"blanket what ever was going in the sky was broadcast on the ceiling which was round and whatever was going on the ground was broadcast on a large rock. They also would light up different cases with things that tribe had made when that tribe was on the screen.
After the movie we went to the cafe they had food from lots of different tribes of native American and they don't serve hamburgers there JUST BUFFALO!!! I kinda wanted to try it but I decided against it because I had just had a burger the day before at Five Guys in Frederick so I got some chicken fingers instead. After we ate we went to the gift shop I got a magnet and Bowman got an native American instrument for kids for 5$ and Tenney got a necklace for 5$. I also got a little coin shaped thing that you are supposed to collect from all the Smithsonian's IDK if I will do that but I can tape it in my journal at least. I wanted to get Justin a very cute stuffed beaver that they had but I did not have enough $ for it. Maybe another time.
We walked back to the metro and took the metro back to Alexandria. When we got there Bowman just sat on the car I was like BOWMAN GET OUT OF THERE! The metro man spoke to her to..he was like you need to get out this car I am not going down the line with you in here... I was like Bowman you don't just sit on the metro... you needed to get out of there when Tenney and I did.. she was like well my shoe was off.. I said well when I told you that our stop was NEXT then that is when you needed to put it on and if it was still off then you just needed to carry it out... KIDS!!!!aah!!!! So that is our day at the museum. I think it went well :)
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Field Trip
In December during Christmas break I took Bowman and Tenney to The National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, MD.
Frederick is about an hour and a half from Alexandria. On the way there we drove by POTOMAC, MD famous for being the hometown of JUSTIN RODERICK!!! We also drove by many places Justin went hiking, camping and other stuff when he was a little boy boy scout. I know all of this because Justin pointed all of this out to me one day when we were driving in that direction and he thought I was not listening :).
Our drive to Frederick went very well. We found the museum and parked in a parking garage and walked over. The weather was not to cold or rainy. The museum cost 6$ for me and for Bowman and Tenney it was free ( kids under ten). They had a path they wanted us to follow. I really liked the museum and learned quite a bit. I also learned why I think that it was free for kids under ten...Bowman and Tenney were a bit uneasy in there. They had went there before when they were a couple years younger and got scared when we walked back in they said we have been here before and we got scared. I said well you are bigger now so you wont get scared this time because you know none of your fears will come true. I wanted to read all of the exhibits but both girls were worried that the mannequins were going to come to life..Well Tenney was and Bowman kept perpetuating it by saying "oh I saw that one move" and Bowman gets in moods sometimes where everything that I want to do is LAME.... so whe I was reading she was like lets GO!!... somethings I was able to glean from the museum were
there were SEVEN black civil war surgeons they trained in Canada or other places
there were several lady doctors too.
there were mannequins in different states of war that we could look at and press something and listen to them talk. We listened to a Dr. tell people what to take when they were sick, like this was a re-make of a camp where people were sick. Interesting that most of the stuff that the Dr. prescribed to them back then was is either illegal or a known poison now. We saw a diorama or men being hurt on the battlefield. learned about what they used for medicine. how they helped people wounded in action when action was still going on. there were hospital mannequins and because it was right after Christmas they even had the hospital part decorated for Christmas. There was a morgue part with morgue mannequins. It was very informative. I thought that the girls would like it because there mom is a Dr. and they LOVE gross creepy stuff. There mom thought they would like it and her boyfriend...well who cares what he thinks but he thought they would like it to...but they couldn't wait to move onto something else.
They did not have magnets...BOOOHOOO:(
the girls are VERY into getting french frys while they are out and about so I asked the older lady behind the desk where was a good place to get frys she directed me to a place called Wags. Another lady in the office said isn't that bar??? she said well it is not so much of a bar during the day...So I walked down to Wags and walked down a set of stairs and walked into a BAR... I said no this is a bar...we are not going to eat here I mean it was so dark inside I could barely see... like no I am no bringing kids here sorry... So then we walked over to Five Guys and got lunch. Then walked around by the bridge and looked at the ice. There were a lot of strange people and homeless looking people hanging around by bridge near the center of town. So the girls asked if we could go.
On the way back to the car we stopped an amazing toy store called The Dancing Bear it is all not battery operated. We had a nice time in there looking around
We were almost to the car when Tenney bumped STRAIGHT into a stop sign it went BOING...I said ARE YOU OK???? she rubbed her head and said yes I said do you want me to get you some ice she said no she was OK I said OK SHE DID NOT EVEN CRY... she is SEVEN what a brave little girl. On the way home she said a couple of times to me, Keli my head still hurts I said I know and you may get a bruise. It will hurt for a couple of days but then you will be OK.
On the way back home I somehow got on the wrong road and was headed to Baltimore but I got off in Damascus and found my way back home right in time to hit a bunch of traffic. I dropped the kids off at their dad's house and that was our field trip.
Frederick is about an hour and a half from Alexandria. On the way there we drove by POTOMAC, MD famous for being the hometown of JUSTIN RODERICK!!! We also drove by many places Justin went hiking, camping and other stuff when he was a little boy boy scout. I know all of this because Justin pointed all of this out to me one day when we were driving in that direction and he thought I was not listening :).
Our drive to Frederick went very well. We found the museum and parked in a parking garage and walked over. The weather was not to cold or rainy. The museum cost 6$ for me and for Bowman and Tenney it was free ( kids under ten). They had a path they wanted us to follow. I really liked the museum and learned quite a bit. I also learned why I think that it was free for kids under ten...Bowman and Tenney were a bit uneasy in there. They had went there before when they were a couple years younger and got scared when we walked back in they said we have been here before and we got scared. I said well you are bigger now so you wont get scared this time because you know none of your fears will come true. I wanted to read all of the exhibits but both girls were worried that the mannequins were going to come to life..Well Tenney was and Bowman kept perpetuating it by saying "oh I saw that one move" and Bowman gets in moods sometimes where everything that I want to do is LAME.... so whe I was reading she was like lets GO!!... somethings I was able to glean from the museum were
there were SEVEN black civil war surgeons they trained in Canada or other places
there were several lady doctors too.
there were mannequins in different states of war that we could look at and press something and listen to them talk. We listened to a Dr. tell people what to take when they were sick, like this was a re-make of a camp where people were sick. Interesting that most of the stuff that the Dr. prescribed to them back then was is either illegal or a known poison now. We saw a diorama or men being hurt on the battlefield. learned about what they used for medicine. how they helped people wounded in action when action was still going on. there were hospital mannequins and because it was right after Christmas they even had the hospital part decorated for Christmas. There was a morgue part with morgue mannequins. It was very informative. I thought that the girls would like it because there mom is a Dr. and they LOVE gross creepy stuff. There mom thought they would like it and her boyfriend...well who cares what he thinks but he thought they would like it to...but they couldn't wait to move onto something else.
They did not have magnets...BOOOHOOO:(
the girls are VERY into getting french frys while they are out and about so I asked the older lady behind the desk where was a good place to get frys she directed me to a place called Wags. Another lady in the office said isn't that bar??? she said well it is not so much of a bar during the day...So I walked down to Wags and walked down a set of stairs and walked into a BAR... I said no this is a bar...we are not going to eat here I mean it was so dark inside I could barely see... like no I am no bringing kids here sorry... So then we walked over to Five Guys and got lunch. Then walked around by the bridge and looked at the ice. There were a lot of strange people and homeless looking people hanging around by bridge near the center of town. So the girls asked if we could go.
On the way back to the car we stopped an amazing toy store called The Dancing Bear it is all not battery operated. We had a nice time in there looking around
We were almost to the car when Tenney bumped STRAIGHT into a stop sign it went BOING...I said ARE YOU OK???? she rubbed her head and said yes I said do you want me to get you some ice she said no she was OK I said OK SHE DID NOT EVEN CRY... she is SEVEN what a brave little girl. On the way home she said a couple of times to me, Keli my head still hurts I said I know and you may get a bruise. It will hurt for a couple of days but then you will be OK.
On the way back home I somehow got on the wrong road and was headed to Baltimore but I got off in Damascus and found my way back home right in time to hit a bunch of traffic. I dropped the kids off at their dad's house and that was our field trip.
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