Best Mom in the World

I received the absolute coolest surprise this weekend. I was playing the cello in an octet this last Sunday, and my mom FLEW OUT TO SURPRISE ME!!!! I had no idea. At 2:30 Tony told me to eat because he had a surprise and we needed to leave at 3. For the life of me, I could not figure out where we were going. I had some ideas...maybe the aquarium....I wasn't sure. But we were driving in Maryland and we passed the temple, and don't know of anything in Maryland past the temple. So it wasn't until we were pulling into the airport that I figured out we were picking someone up. And it wasn't until I spotted mom that I realized who it was we were picking up. I was so extremely excited. So mom got to see my performance. Then, miraculously, I was able to take off both Monday and Tuesday with absolutely no problems. Mom and I had a great time. We went into DC and got to go to the National aquarium, visit Tony at work, the National archives, the Capital building, the Botanical gardens, and the Natural history museum. By the time we got home, we couldn't walk. Our feet hurt so badly. Then we got a grand total of 4 trick or treaters that night.

On Tuesday, we got to go to the temple. Mom hasn't been through a session at the DC temple since her and Dad got married, so we thought it would be a great experience to go. The DC temple is beautiful and we had a great time. We then got her to the airport almost exactly an hour before her flight left. After dropping her off, I started my drive home. The freeway we had just been on was blocked just a few miles before the airport by a terrible accident. A semi was blocking the lanes of traffic, and a moving truck was quite crunched up, with a small car disappearing into it's back bumper. If mom and I had been even a few minutes later, we would not have been able to make it to the airport on time because of the accident. The Lord was definitely blessing us. Mom got back to Utah safely. Thanks family for letting me borrow her!

Happy Halloween

Tony and I went to a work Halloween party this year. We were a little surprised. Halloween parties in DC are definitely....different then Halloween parties in Utah. We thought we had fun costumes though.  Tony was a very good looking member of the Star Trek crew. And I was the thief that steals your socks from the dryer. 

Crazy Sock Day

Today was crazy sock day at school. Pretty cool outfit, right? :)

Funny Stuffs

Caught on TV

At the museum there was a women's bathroom, and a family bathroom....but no men's bathroom....

Soup Natzi eat your heart out.

The Tourists

Today was a beautiful, beautiful day. It was perfect weather to go touristing. Norm was very kind and let us borrow his parking pass, so we were able to park right next to the National Mall with all of the Smithsonian Museums. 

Tony was hungry, so he decided it would be a good idea to eat the Washington Monument.

I am chillin in front of the capital building........very far in front of the capital building. This was as close as we made it today.

We spent most of the day at the Museum of American History....and we still didn't see everything. Here are the ruby slippers. We watched a short video narrated by Ben Stiller that said that the ruby slippers are the most popular thing in the whole museum. Interesting....

More food storage

And this is our small start for a food storage. You can see what has gone on sale. We can definitely have pasta whenever we want it.

Food Storage

Yes I know it just looks like a pile of junk, but this is actually all that was given to us by a lady in our ward who is moving to Oregon. The table is really pretty, and I'm sure that is enough storage to last us at least a couple years. :) A lot of it is pretty old, so we are already starting to use it up. I went through and made an inventory of all that we have. It is a lot of really good stuff. And, thanks to Eleanor Jensen we have an awesome cookbook that tells us how to use all of this awesome food storage. We are so grateful that Brenda was so kind to give us all of this food storage, and can now say: Bring on the hurricanes and earthquakes DC, we are prepared!

Pizza!

This is the alfredo pizza that I made last week. It was soo sooooo good. I just made mom's alfredo sauce, and then put spinach, chicken, and seasonings on it, with cheese of course. Here was the awesome pizza dough.


1 packet yeast
1 cup warm water
2 cups flour
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar


Give it plenty of time to rise, then make the pizza, and cook it at 375 till done. The recipe had a way different time then it actually took to cook it, so I am just going to state it like that: Cook it till its done.

Thumb Sucker

And here is our second sono or our little thumb-sucker. Baby Roring is starting to actually look more like a baby! I told my students at school that I am pregnant, and it is quite a distraction for them at times. They ask me every day if I know if the baby is a boy or a girl, and every day I tell them I find out on November 3rd. I keep hoping that one day, they will just remember that and not ask me. Haha. They also all want to tell me names for our baby. I have already had several girls suggestion the name Justin Beiber Roring. No surprises there.....not gonna happen.

Baby Roring, the peanut

This was taken at our first appointment. The first thing the doctor said to me was "aren't you a little young to be pregnant." I told her I was from Utah and she said "Oh, ok. That makes sense." The DC area is definitely a whole new world. People here do not have kids until they are into their 30's. So I seriously look like a teen pregnancy to most people. Anyway, she pointed at the baby in the sono and said, "There's your little peanut." Therefore, the baby was named the peanut for the first couple months. Cute little peanut, right.