East Coast 2013 D.C. Monuments

The monuments at "The Mall" in D.C. never get old. Every time I've visited D.C. I check them out. We started the day off at Arlington National Cemetery. Make sure you catch the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier, always impressive. I'm grateful for the men and women who have and continue to serve this great country of ours. 

My traditional picture in the same spot with Keith! 

 Sitting with the crowds on the steps of the lincoln memorial

 We love you, Abe

Korean War Veteran's Memorial

 Three Servicemen Statue at Vietnam Veteran's Memorial

 Vietnam's Women Memorial

 Our current home represented at the WWII Memorial 

 Love that we are all from California! 

The Washington Monument was being repaired and we decided to help

Roosevelt Memorial Park is huge and really neat. This was my first time seeing it and I highly recommend it.

Jefferson Memorial in the distance

With Jefferson

Marine Corps War Memorial aka Iwo Jima Memorial. This is my favorite Memorial.

God Bless the U.S.A.

I will forever be grateful to live in this country and for all those who have given me the freedoms I enjoy. I love this country that was divinely created. 

East Coast 2013 Mount Vernon

If you are ever in the D.C. area, you must visit Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon was George Washington's home and it is amazing. I f you ever decide to go please let me know, I am pimping my mother in-law out to be your tour guide. She is amazing and knows almost all there is to know about Washington and his digs at Mt. Vernon. 

 We always take our picture joining the family

 Janet and Keith, the greatest in-laws EVER! 

 Angela and Bill, the greatest parents EVER! 

 There isn't much else in this life we love as much as traveling together. 

This is George's back porch with the most amazing view. It is right on the water. 

 The view from the porch

East Coast 2013 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

We were able to spend some time on the east coast with both of our parents and it was a dream! We started the trip off with a visit to Gettysburg where they were celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. We have been to Gettysburg before but not quite like this. They had reenactments of the battle and tons of fun booths and games. It's always fun to tour these historic sights with Janet and Keith (Rob's parents) as our tour guides, they know their stuff! 

We love Abe! 

It really was the greatest thing ever to travel with both of our parents! 

Keith explaining the beauty we were looking at that was once full of civil war soldiers

Love these historic towns and buildings

Pulled pork sandwiches, very civil war-esque 

The scenery in Gettysburg is dreamy

Janet and Keith are great in-laws!

I love the fire coming from the cannon 

 My Dad is a sucker for any kind of booth, this happened to be a homemade root beer one

 How cute are the glass bottles?!

 We had a great time walking the historic town of Gettysburg and the cute shops.

The Holy War

We love any reason to have people over and party. One of our favorite reasons is for the holy war, BYU vs. The U. This football game is always a huge rivalry and who doesn't love a rivalry?! Rob attended BYU but didn't really care too much about them until he married me! We had to pick a side and we mostly chose The Y just to root against our cousin Z, a die hard Ute fan. Ever since we have started to fall more and more in love with our cougars! We had some friends over to watch the game and of course we needed some decor. What side do you choose?!

The Prep.

Yes, Bear has a cougar jersey!

All of the decor was super easy and cheap. I had felt to make the banners and red and blue streamers in my fourth of July box. I bought the Y and U letters and wooden footballs on sale at Joanne's. 

The BYU packaging tape came from here and University of Utah duct tape here. I would recommend this BYU tape instead though, easier to work with.

 I just taped them around mini gatorade bottles from the dollar store. I got this idea from It will Change Your Life, she has a wonderful holy war party she posted about.

The Y print I found on pinterest but can't seem to find it now.

I made the Utes print in photoshop.

For the twisted streamers I used the most awesome fringe scissors by Martha.

So much fun , rise and shout the cougars are out! GO BYU!