The craziest month

Hi! I want to start by saying sorry for leaving those of you who follow my blog hanging for so long this summer. We have had a crazy last month that ended in Nora's 2nd birthday last week. I can't even believe our baby girl is two. So I'm promising you now that there will be a few posts this week!!! I'm going to go chronologically and catch up to the present.

At the end of July, Jarrod left for Washington, D.C., to attend a month-long course that every radiologist in the country is required to attend. Nora and I traveled with him and we all made a pit stop in Pittsburgh to see my Great Aunt Ruth and Uncle Jack. Nora and I spent the first 10 days of that 4 week course with Jarrod in Washington, D.C. We quickly found out that it is not very fun to take in the Washington sights with an almost two-year-old, especially during the National Boy Scout Jamboree. One day, we tried to do a couple of the Smithsonian museums at the same time as the Boy Scout parade. There were boy scouts everywhere!!! They were literally laying in the middle of different exhibits sleeping. I may have had nightmares about boy scouts later that night. On our second day there, we got hit with a major thunderstorm that knocked out electricity in the basement Jarrod was renting for the month. Then our bad luck continued when the power was out for several days and we ended up moving into a hotel. It was all very annoying being away from home without power, or a stove, or a refrigerator, but we made the best of it. Here are some pictures from D.C. More stories of the last month coming right up. Stay tuned!


Nora's first trip through the Ft. Pitt tunnel in Pittsburgh. One of my favorite things as a little girl. When you enter the tunnel you don't see anything but rolling hills and suburbia all around you.


And when you exit the tunnel this is your view -- this picture is TERRIBLE and does not at all do it justice. You are smack dab in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh when you come out and right by the meeting of the famous three rivers. Nora's mouth was wide open when she experienced this for the first time. It was adorable.

Sitting on Uncle Jack's lap during a pit stop in Burgettstown, PA

Sitting with Aunt Ruth

Jarrod's artistic shot of the Washington Monument


Daddy and Nora in front of the capitol


Mama and Nora in front of the capitol

At the Air and Space Museum - she finally fell asleep so we finally got a chance to read some of the exhibits.

Daddy and Nora in front of the Washington monument

Lincoln Memorial

The White House