Irish Parade

We went to an Irish parade in Alexandria, Virginia which is just outside DC. What could be more Irish than the Notre Dame band. Well it wasn't the current fighting Irish band but instead members of the Alumni band. Watch the video below. The day got a little strange when we went to eat lunch later in the day. See below.


Autumn had fun at the parade although it took her a while to figure out what exactly it was she liked.






















We were sitting down eating when this lady seen here playing the crane game came up and gave Autumn a stuffed bunny. After she won that one, she went back to try and win more. When she was unsuccessful she went to her car for more Toys for Dean. Although his choice was either a Glinda good witch of the north doll, or a rat ring. It was very bizarre, but the lady was very nice, maybe a little too nice. My paranoia was starting to kick in, I was starting to think she was either going to ask us to join her cult or follow us home and rob us. She talked to us for 15 minutes or so and told us about all the great outlet shopping places around. Does anyone need a shopping partner, I can hook you up. It was interesting to say the least.






Dean, would you like some fries with your ketchup?

The Saltworth Sundries

My friend Jarrod from College has a new band in Austin Texas called "The Saltworth Sundries." He plays Banjo and sings. Here's a picture of them playing live.



Clicking their logo below will take you to their myspace page where you can check out a few of their songs. My favorite song of theirs is Last Known Photo. Tell me what YOU like.

Google Trip

My station is partnering with Google for a Virginia Governor's debate in June. We took a trip over to the Washington DC Google office to go over the details. It was like going to Disneyland. They have catered lunches every day, they have a playroom with a foosball and ping pong table, and also video games like the Wii and Playstation 3. I'm not sure anyone there ever works, but it sure looked like fun. This first picture is the lobby.



This next picture is a graphical representation of all the google searches going on at the current moment. It was a spinning globe with colored dots that corresponded to the language of the search. It was much cooler than this picture shows.




See what I mean about the office being like Disneyland. It was very colorful, very playful, and very bright.

Dean's 2nd Birthday

Hello again everyone. Dean is officially 2 today, but we celebrated his birthday last weekend. Below are some pictures of the day.

Another post already. I'm on fire. The basement is nearing completion. I'll have more pictures of that up soon. I'll also post more pictures of the house and the rooms. I may even put up a video tour. We'll see. I have more pictures of the kids to go up soon too.

The Cherry Blossom festival is March 28th to April 12th, if anyone would like to come down. If you want more information on the festival check out this web page:

Cherry Blossom Festival

My friends Keiko and Ray just got married and I was the DJ for the wedding. Keiko and I were on the Morehead State Bowling team together. It was a really cool wedding and we had a lot of fun. Here's some pictures. I took them with my cell phone so they aren't the best quality.

Wow, 2 days in a row and I'm updating the blog. I'm making progress.

Erica came down to visit Keith while he was working on the basement. There's a civil war battleground near our house and trails you can walk to explore the battlefields. We had no idea there was a horse farm on one of the trails. We stopped by the fence to see the horses and they walked over to us. They were very friendly and the kids were able to feed them.

One more reason for people to visit. We're now taking reservations for Hotel Ensign. Let us know if you'd like to come and visit.

Visitors to DC

Now that life has settled down, it's time to get back to the blog again. I'm going to give it one more try to keep this thing updated. If I don't succeed this time around I'm going to delete the whole thing and give up.

We've had some visitors lately. Keith has been at the house for a few weeks putting in a finished basement. It's coming along nicely. It should be mostly finished in about a week. It will give us another bedroom and bathroom. I'll post more pictures as the project gets closer to complettion. There's lot's of space for everyone to stop on the way to the Outer Banks and stay with us. Only a little over 100 days to the Outer Banks!!!!!






Now that life has settled down, it's time to get back to the blog again. I'm going to give it one more try to keep this thing updated. If I don't succeed this time around I'm going to delete the whole thing and give up.

We've had some visitors lately. Keith has been at the house for a few weeks putting in a finished basement.