2007 Wrap Up...Welcome 2008

Ok so I am FINALLY getting around to updating this blog! Here is what happened in the past few weeks....

Christmas Eve

We spent the evening of Christmas Eve with our good friends Richard and Melanie Sala. It is an Italian traditon in Rich's family to make spaghetti on Christmas Eve so Richard made the sauce and we brought French Bread (homemade by me with Adam's recipe...it was hit!), Caprese Salad, and green salad. Needless to say it was a FEAST! Before dinner we took a little Metro ride into DC to see the National Christmas Tree at the White House. We were not the only ones with this idea...it was PACKED! The tree was not the Rockefeller Tree, but it was still neat to see.

Christmas Day

We spent the morning with out little family of 3 1/3 opening presents and eating a hearty breakfast of Eggs Huntington! YUMMY! Dan opened most of Jack's presents for him, but Jack certainly played with them all...that is after we managed to free them from the packaging!! For Christmas dinner we once again joined the Sala's for a tradtional meal. All in all a good Christmas...not white..but still fun.

Our sorta Christmas Tree....the real one is packed somewhere in the basement...

Trips to D.C.

We took two more trips to Washinton D.C. with the Salas and their 9 fmaily members. The first was on the 30th...we made it as far as the Lincoln Memorial before it began pouring rain! I have decided I would rather have snow! We took a quick side tour to the Korean Memorial and then headed back home to watch the sorry showing CU gave in the bowl game again Alabama.

The next trip was on New Years Day, again with the Salas and company. We went in the evening and were able to see the mall at night. It was a little frigid, but we managed to make it most of the way through the momuments. The most spectacular was the new World War II memorial! WHAT A SIGHT TO SEE AT NIGHT! I would love to go back during the day and read all of the inscriptions and take some picture. Only one of the ones I took at night turned out.

Over all, the holidays went well, of course we would have LOVED to have been with family, but had a good time with our Marine Corp family. Dan is headed back to school tomorrow for his last two weeks of TBS! It is hard to believe it is over. Then he will be headed to Camp Lejeune for Combat Engineer school on the 25th. Jackson and I will pack our things and head to Colorado in mid-march to stay and have baby bean #2. Then it is off to Sunny SoCal. Thanks for hanging with us this year...keep checking in with us...this next year will be another wild Marine Corp Adventure!