Hugh and Tammy Cherry

On November 20, Hugh and Tammy got married!

These two are such a great couple, and I was so excited to be a part of their wedding! They had an AMAZING wedding reception and an equally amazing wedding the next day. Tammy looked absolutely gorgeous, in her amazing dress.

Here is a picture of Tammy and her bridesmaids outside of the temple:
(Sarah, Heidi, Tammy, Julie, Elisha)


And a picture of us at the wedding reception (do I seriously make that face naturally?):

Sarah flew out for the wedding weekend, and we were so excited to have her stay with us. For some reason whenever Paige woke up and found Sarah in our house, Paige started crying. She was not happy to have her space invaded! However, the second we stepped out of the house, Paige loved Sarah and wanted to be held by her.

It was a fabulous weekend and we're so excited for Tammy and Hugh!

November 2010

Highlights from November 2010:

In November we enjoyed the end of a beautiful east coast fall. I love all the colors on all the trees, and I love how long fall lasts here. The J. Ruben Clark Law Society Spouse's Association had a super fun activity where we made fun varnished pumpkins in the park.


The kids had fun playing around while their mommy's made pumpkins. Here's Henry playing:


We also took a trip to Gettysburg this month, but didn't take any pictures. We had a car audio tour, where you drive around the sights and listen to the tour. We only got to a couple of stops before Paige decided that she had enough of the car seat, so we headed back. But Jake and I really enjoyed what we did see. It was so neat to be where that famous battle took place.

Here is Paige on the way home. She sure loves sucking on my keys!

We stayed here for Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with our good friends, hosted at the Fowles (of course I didn't take any pictures). It was a fun holiday!

October 2010

Highlights from October 2010.

I learned how to check out ebooks for my Nook from the library. All blogging efforts went downhill after that.

At the beginning of the month Paige made some progress toward walking. She pulled herself up on a walker, and as it started moving she walked with it.

Paige and I went with some friends (Michelle and Gabbi, Chirsten and Henry, Eve and Alex) to a farm in Maryland for apple picking and to pick out a pumpkin for Halloween.

Paige loved crawling around the rows of pumpkins.

There were some farm animals there, but Paige didn't think they were very cool (she was a little too young) so we sat in the car to warm up while everyone else was looking at animals. Paige had a blast sitting in the front seat playing with my keys.


We didn't do a whole lot for Halloween, but we did carve our pumpkin (it looks a little blurred because of the candle glow):
And I dressed Paige up in her cute little pumpkin costume:

Poor Neglected Blog

This blog is severely neglected. But there's not too much going on. Jake goes to school and works. I work a little bit and stay home with Paige. We both adore our little girl who seems to get cuter by the day.

She's 8 months old now, as happy as ever, and always an adventure.

Annapolis

On the last day of Jake's internship, his department planned a day trip with all the legal interns to Annapolis, MD. The morning of all of the others decided it was too rainy so they canceled the trip. However, we figured we were already planning on going--so we went anyway. We didn't spend a ton of time there, because we wanted Paige to be able to get in her naps.

First we went on a touristy harbor cruise. We got on a tour boat and went for a ride around the harbor. We sailed past the Navel Academy and some really pretty coastline. It was really relaxing to be on the boat. We had perfect weather during the boat ride. It was overcast because of the rain, but it wasn't raining and it wasn't too hot. However, it was really bright so Paige and Jake (with their sensitive blue eyes) were squinting most of the time.

Here are some pictures from our boat ride:




After the boat we stopped at a restaurant for a fresh crab lunch. Since Jake and I grew up in Colorado, we didn't have much experience eating fresh crab. We ordered one crab (mostly just to try it... crab is expensive!) and a soft shell crab sandwich. I was honestly a little disturbed when the waiter brought our meal. The crab came on a tray slightly buried in dry seasoning. It literally looked like he had crawled up through the sand was was staring at me. The crab on the sandwich maintained the crab shape, but it had been deep fried (image a bun with deep fried legs sticking out of it). Put it all together and it looked like one crab was glaring at me for deep frying his friend. I wish I would've taken a picture of it, even though it was a pretty disturbing. But we had a good time and laughed through most of the meal and just enjoyed the taste of the crab.

Great Falls "Hike"

We haven't been able to do much hiking since we moved here. So a few weeks ago we decided to go hiking to the Great Falls. We imagined it would be a short hike up to the falls... we just didn't imagine how short. It took approximately two minutes to walk to trail to the overlook. We had a good laugh at ourselves and enjoyed the view of the falls. We also went for a walk down some of the other trails near the falls, but it just wasn't quite the same.

The Many Faces of Paige

"This looks interesting"

"Whoa! What's up there?"

"pppppbbbbbbbtttttttt"

"What."

"That's delightful!"

"Neat! There's something behind me!"

"I want that in my mouth."

"I'm outta here!"