Virginia

We're not dead -- it's just our blog that died. When we started putting our blog into a template to make a blog book for 2008 I was motivated to resuscitate the blog... we'll see how long it lasts.

In October Jared took a few days off of work and we headed down to Williamsburg, Virginia to visit my brother, Rustin. Living on this side of the Country definitely has its perks. We are now within driving distance of a lot of places we would love to go and see.

On our way to Virginia we stopped in DC for a day. Carter had just done a Civics unit in Social Studies and was pumped (at first) to see the sights of D.C., the White House in particular. When push came to shove he was WAY more interested in the Smithsonian museums than the sights of DC. We had a great time and were even able to meet up with one of my friends from high school.

Mer it was so fun to see you!

Colonial Williamsburg was a lot of fun. We happened to be there the weekend of Columbus Day so they were doing a huge reenactment which was a lot of fun to watch. We also went to Jamestown and Yorktown. Overall I think the boys liked Yorktown the best -- there was a battlefield with cannons and a beach, of course it was their favorite!



We loved spending time with Rustin. He is one of the kids favorites -- sorry to the rest of my siblings who may be reading this. We hope to get back there before too long for another visit!