Jam Anyone?

Yesterday Sadie and I made jam with the blackberries. Sadie's job was to 'mush' the blackberries.

Picking Blackberries

Today we went to pick blackberries. I had no idea they were so big! and not very tasty. They are going to have to have a lot of sugar on them!

Reading through osmosis

So Sadie will put herself to bed for her naps in the afternoon. So the other day I went to check on her and this is what I found.

Todd's foot

Here is a picture of Todd's foot last Monday

Washington DC Temple

Here is Sadie in her pretty dress Here is the temple All in all we had a fun weekend. We are all extremely tired and hope that is the last car trip until we move. Todd has vowed to leave the East Coast as soon as school is done. He hates the traffic and toll booths and commuting.

Sunday Sightseeing tour

Sunday we spent the day looking at the sites. Here is the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Here we are with Lincoln Here is my artistic picture at the Vietnam Memorial Here we are at the Arlington National Cemetery Here is the Kennedy memorial Here is Grandma with Sadie and Sierra And unbelievably, Todd did all of this with out the crutches. I don't know if that displayed toughness or stupidity...

Our Fun Weekend

Our trip began at 6:00 Thursday evening. We drove to Philadelphia and arrived at 2:30 am at our realtor's house where we slept until 6:00 am. We headed to the storage place and parked the trailer (rather than unloading it since we couldn't find any help to unload it). We walked through our house (only the first floor since the stairs weren't in). We then were off to our first appointment which was for basic design stuff. Our next apointment was at the carpet place which was a 40 min drive away. After carpet we headed to the kitchen cabinet place, which was another 40 min drive. The girl was completely rude to us, but it could have been because both children were screaming. After a while, we just gave up and we were also out of time so we left and headed to New Jersey for the wedding. We were supposed to be there at 5:00. We left Phili at 3:00 and the navi said it was an hour and a half drive. Unfotunately we hit traffic and it ended up taking us 3 hours to get to the hotel. So we didn't reach to wedding until 6:30, but it was okay since we beat Ray and Evalee and Ryan and Talya who were traveling by train from New York. Ivy's family threw a grand reception complete with dinner and dancing. Here is a picture of Sadie with her dance partner (i don't know who she was)We left early (10:00) from the reception to head to bed since both kids were so cranky. We were told that everyone was leaving at 7:00 am to go to the temple (the sealing was at 2:00pm) so Todd boycotted and decided that we would wait until 8:30 to leave. (knowing the matheson family we knew that chances weren't very high that they would actually leave at 7:00). History repeats itself and they didn't end up leaving until 8:00. We left at 8:30 and still beat everyone there by half an hour. (we won't say how fast Todd was going, but Ivy's dad was barely driving the speed limit)
One thing Todd and I learned to dread was this:TOLL BOOTHS!!! They charge extra for each axle you have. So when we had the trailer it was $15.00 to go through each one! So this whole trip cost us $60 in just tolls.

The wedding was beautifull, but really hot outside! Sadie thought she would help Ivy by holding her pretty dress.