It was so fun to get to go home this Thanksgiving and see family and friends. We didn't get to enjoy the holidays with family last year so we were really grateful to get to go home this year.

All the preggers! I'm up first!

Who ever said  I wasn't that big is crazy. I am bursting!

All the family just enjoying being togther!

I got to have a baby shower while we were down as well. It's always fun to celebrate babies!

Some nice friends of ours gave us a little DC baby bash as well, so babies arrival has been officially celebrated!

So we have 3 and  half weeks to go till we meet this little bundle of joy! We are super excited!

This past weekend we decided to go away for the weekend. We found this beautiful place in Cumberland, MD and stayed there for the weekend.

                                                                     This was our hotel

The view from our room

Well, this month was a blink of an eye for us. Bryan has been busy with work, and I have been busy with school and working as well. The fall season here is in full bloom, and it’s incredible! I got called to be the YW president last month, and Bryan got put in the Elders quorum presidency which has been fun.  We are just a few months away from starting our little family which doesn’t seem possible, but we are very excited!  

                                                       Here we are at our ward party

                                              Here are the YW and the leaders

                            

And just a shot of the leaders

A couple weeks ago we had the pleasure of having the Padres in town. We went to Annapolis for the first part of the day and then headed up to Baltimore to go to Fort Henry where they were having a celebration of the day Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem.  We also went out to eat, and visited this neat church, and just had a great time with them. Thanks for the visitWe went to Annapolis for the first part of the day and then headed up to Baltimore to go to Fort Henry where they were having a celebration of the day Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem.  We also went out to eat, and visited this neat church, and just had a great time with them. Thanks for the visit!

My grandparents have been in town this whole week which has been super fun too. We have played lots of cards, done a little site seeing, a lot of visiting, and just enjoying each other’s company. We love having visitors!

And lastly I am getting HUGE!

I feel like we have been so slacking with our blogging so today will be a blog overload. About a month ago we had a wonderful visit from Lacy and Peter. We loved being able to spend time with them in DC!On another occasion we had a residency party at one of the attendings home. He has a home that he renovated from the 1700's and has a whole lot of land that we got to explore and have fun on.

This picture sucks, but there was a zip line!

We rode golf carts around all the trails,  and made a stop at the vinyard to eat some grapes.We got a back of the truck tour of all the fun things his house had to offer.

We also got to Kings Dominion, with one of Bryans co-residents. It's like a 6 Flags meets sunsplash sorta thing. It was so fun, and the weather was amazing. The roller coasters were fun so I hear, but as Bryan says "You dont want to scramble the egg", so I stayed off most of the rides.

This was the waterpark in the park. 

Last weekend I got to go to Michigan and visit Van and Mandy in there new city. It was so fun to see them, and spend time with them. They took me to a store that only has Christmas stuff all year round, and they have anything and everything you could possibly dream of that is Christmas. Then they took me to this German town, where we got some yummy fudge, and ate some good german food. I also got to see there town, and it was really cute.

Our thumb sucking little baby is a GIRL!!! We are so excited. We are just about 18 weeks along and baby is as healthy as can be!

For my Bday we went to annapolis, md and did this sailing thing. It was a lot of fun (minus the fact that it was unbearbly hot). It is so beautiful, and it was fun to have a fun little date together. We finished by getting in touch with our roots, and having

famous dave's for dinner!

Here are the sails!

This is what we looked like on the water, his was the sister sail boat, cute huh

A couple weekends ago I got to very last minute, catch a plane and have a girls weekend. My Mom had been planning this trip for a while and I told her I wouldn't know if I would be able to make it until last minute. Well, work told me they didn't need me monday or tues, so saturday morning I got a flight to leave that evening. It was a wonderful time to be on the west coast with the family!

A couple weekends ago we tried out a fun beach at thechesapeake bay. It is only 35 miles away from our house, and a fun place to hangout and go swimming. The sand kind of looks like dirt, but it is in deed sand

Bryan was on call for the 4th, but I coudn't miss going to the capital and seeing the fireworks, and seeing the concert. It was warm, but it was really fun.

This is a good picture to play "I Spy" try to find hairy chest man, and yawning lady.Here are some of the fireworks!

Here's David Archeletta performing yes, I am still upset he lost his season of american idol!