I love to see the Temple

So to continue with our trip to Washington DC...Saturday morning we went to the DC Temple for Rob and Trish's sealing. It was beautiful and we were so glad to be able to be there. They looked so happy! Spencer and I always love being reminded of what we promised each other in the temple.

Here is the cute couple coming out of the temple

Congrats to the newlyweds!

Here is Amanda and I waiting out the rain ... I love her! I have the greatest Sisters in Law!

The Frye Family

(Briant & Amanda, Mike & Heidi, Kathy, Stephenie, Me & Spencer, Melissa and Brandon)

Our usual dip in front of the temple

We spent the rest of the day taking in more historical sites and museums and using every last minute up that we could. Spencer and I had such a great time with our family and are so grateful we had the opportunity to be together! So now the countdown is on for Disneyland in December!

My Country Tis of thee...

Sweet land of liberty...

The Washington Monument

We started the morning off with a yummy breakfast at "The Diner" and we made our plans for the day.

The Frye family

We walked and walked our little hearts out... We went to monuments and museums and had so much fun taking it all in. It was Spencer's first time in Washington D.C. and I had been once before in High School. I love our country and am so grateful for our freedom and rights so I am so glad I was able to see the capital again. We saw so many things that I could never even list them all, however, I have some pictures of a few of the sights-

All the Frye kids at the WWII Memorial

I found that I was even more patriotic and touched by each of these monuments and memorials now that I have a brother serving our country (I will save that for another post). I have always been proud of those who have served and are serving our country it is just magnified by 100% these days.

Look at Abe being all honest and what not

My high school choir was invited to sing at all these different places in D.C. and one of the places was on the steps of The Lincoln Memorial (so pretty at night!) it was so fun to be back there and remember how it felt to sing all the patriotic songs.

The Natural History Museum

Check out the size of that turtle!

Folding the flag

We even folded this HUGE flag! There were 30 of us or something- and our Eagle Scout Frye boys saved the day with giving instructions and making the flag look good.

We topped off the day with a delicious meal at The Cheesecake Factory and dessert with the groom and his family at an italian restaurant next door. We were exhausted by the end of the day but it was so worth it!

And so it begins...

Here we are at the beginning of the trip at none other than the Salt Lake Airport (I was excited to get everything started of course- but doesn't spencer look like he is about to burst as well? haha)

We had so much fun!! I am going to stretch out my posts by posting about each day (that way I don't have to think too much about what on earth anyone would want to know about our daily lives) So day one started out busy and full of excitement... Spencer and I both worked in the morning and then made our way up to Salt Lake and by the time we got there, I was anxious and bursting with excitement. We were looking forward to seeing our family from California and be able to have a few days with all the "adults" in the family. (I feel like the word adults makes me sound old so I will just put that in quotations ok?) The reunion was sweet and I think my husband couldn't have been happier to have his brothers with him again. The flight was easy and I was more than content reading my design magazines and having my husbands undivided attention! So nice for both of us to have a few days off together!

Take off...after this picture was taken, my phrase for the weekend was: "smile! with your teeth!"

We landed and knew immediately we weren't in Kansas (or utah) anymore... talk about humid. But the highlight of the night was that the hotel we were scheduled to stay at had been overbooked and therefore had used our rooms (we didn't get there until 1:30 am) so check out our room! 1 bed, one pull-out and 4 people! Wow! Briant and Amanda had not yet realized how much they truly loved us- we were closer after this night than ever before! :) It was pretty funny-- that was something new and different for us, each couple sitting on their respective bed for the night staring at each other (we could hear the crickets and birds chirping) and next thing you know..."welp, i am gonna turn the light off" Haha, it wasn't bad, we had lots of laughs and couldn't have shared that room with anyone better.

sorry for the terrible picture but it was the best angle we could get ... just wanted to give you an idea of the tight quarters!

Don't worry though- nothing was going to slow us down! We knew we would have a blast regardless of a poor night of sleep and you better believe we did! Lots of walking, pictures, food, monuments, and museums... more to come tomorrow!

Leaving...on a jet plane

Well, I would highly doubt that anyone even looks at our blog anymore, but while looking at everyone else's blogs for the day, I had the desire to do a little update- and have decided to try to work on my lack of blogging skills.

We are off! Spencer's cousin is getting married this weekend in the Washington D.C. Temple!! YAY! So we are leaving on a jet plane (but, unlike the song, we know we will be back soon) It will be so fun being with all the Frye's! We are so excited to see everyone, and of course see our wonderful nations capital! I will definitely post some pictures of our trip!

There has been so much of life going on... so we have much to catch up on, but I will do that after our trip. Anyone who stumbles upon this update-- thank you for caring enough to return after months and months of my empty page! :)