Service project in the morning Snow National Cathedral Washington DC Temple Temple Lights and performance Great times, food and laughs with the Mano's Football ...... Great day
*I LOVED this pearl nativity scene!!! How cute is that!!
I should have posted these pictures earlier because I know my parents have been wanting to see what our apartment looks like. So here are just a few pictures of our small but very cozy studio apartment and our surroundings here on L Street. And here are just some other pictures. Some of our friends here in dc all making pizza together, our church where we attend, Aaron at the capitol, and me at the Kennedy Center. I have learned over these last few months of living here, that our simple life is such a blessing. I know we will look back at these times and just smile and laugh because the world would say that we have nothing, but we feel like we are on top of the world. We have each other and our goals and we know with that, we can get through life. Life is simple and life is good!
Aaron and I have visited so many sites here in DC, but there are still many to see. Here are just some pics of some of the sites we have been to recently.
Ok so Halloween in Washington DC can get a little crazy...... Aaron and I started asking around for events that might take place around DC during Halloween a few weeks prior, and learned that we would not be disappointed. We first attended a Drag Queen Race on Tuesday evening, which has been an ongoing tradition at Dupont circle for the past like 20 years. Yes.....DRAG QUEEN RACE!! All these men or whatever they are...dress up in drag and run as fast as they can in HEELS to win the race. It was a HUGE event!! It was so crowded and rainy that we didn't quite get to see them actually racing...but it was worth making an appearance. WARNING: Some pictures are disturbing, hahaha, but now that they are posted I can delete them so our children don't look back and wonder what kind of events we were attending!!! After the crazy race...we enjoyed ourselves some Delicious doughnuts!
Later that week we went over to our good friends Kelly and Jeff Henriod's place and carved pumpkins. They gave us a tutorial on shaving the pumpkin instead of actually carving it. With such a little pumpkin we decided to do our monogram....and we think it turned out pretty cute!
Then for the actual Halloween night we went out to Georgetown, with our friends Courntey and Reese. So rumor had it that Georgetown is the place to be on Halloween night...that was confirmed when we could hardly walk up and down the streets because of the crowd. But we ended up getting into a club which was down on the riverside and just danced the night away!! We had a BLAST!!! Aaron and I didn't want to spend money on costumes this year so we pulled from our closets and decided to be Jackie and John F. Kennedy. It worked.... This was the traffic outside our window at around midnight on Halloween night!! We hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!
Aaron and I first met back when we were 14 years old at a church youth summer program called EFY. Ever since then we have been best friends. He was the first boy I ever held hands with and was my first love. I knew even back then that he was someone I would love to marry. We dated for a little bit in high school, but mostly continued being best friends. Life has finally brought us back together and we could not be any happier. I never would have dreamed that my first love would end up being my last. Life has treated us both so well.