We'll Be In Touch

Last Monday and Tuesday, my sister, mom and I had the pleasure  of driving to New York to spend time with my sister's best friend, Casey. And when I say "sister's best friend", I mean, I don't have memories without Casey in them they've been best friends for so long. Her family is the family we have done holidays and vacations with forever and they really are an extension of our family. Casey is an actress and was in New York publicizing her new show, Marry Me, which airs at 9pm on NBC. If you haven't already, set your TVs & DVRs to watch her,especially tonight since this is the week the ratings really count!! The show premiered last Tuesday, so she was scheduled for Jimmy Fallon on Monday afternoon, then the Today Show on Tuesday morning before she was flying back to LA. There was a "prop" she used for Fallon that she needed from her dad's in Alexandria, so we were more than glad to load it into Amanda's car and head out!  ...

My dad was in town last weekend, so we took the opportunity to visit the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. It is a Smithsonian Museum that was built semi-recently and since we had all visited the one in DC and none of us had been to this one, it was an easy decision. It was super cool, even for someone like me who doesn't know a lot of history or anything about airplanes. This is the same model of plane my Grandpa flew in WWII as a Marine The Discovery Space Shuttle  The Enola Gay, which is the aircraft that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima On Sunday we all took super long naps, then headed to a local pumpkin "patch" to take our #basicwhitegirl fall photos! Canon loved running around, picking up pumpkins and telling us how heavy they were! I still have hopes of getting to an actual farm or festival before the month ends (with my real camera!) 

This past weekend I had the pleasure of being with Kevin & Brittany as they were married! The wedding was absolutely perfect and completely them! I feel like every other sentence out of all of our mouth's was "oh, of course they are doing ______, that is SO them." From the fact that Kevin had 2 ladies standing on his side, to the music at the ceremony, to the personalized wax stamp on their favors, it was truly a reflection of them! Another unique part of this wedding was how relaxing the whole weekend was! I've been in others where it felt like we were rushing from one event to the next, but this was truly a weekend-long adventure. Saturday was spread out - the rehearsal was at 2pm, but the dinner wasn't until 7pm, so we got to watch some football and play by the lake for the afternoon. Then on Sunday the wedding was also at 2pm, but dinner wasn't served until 5:30pm, so they had lawn games set out for all the guests, along with a bluegrass band, a fire ...

We had the best time visiting Aaron's family in California a few weeks ago. I love that Canon gets to experience a lot of "country" things he doesn't necessarily get to here in Alexandria. We were super fortunate to get to spend time with Alex & Ashley, who flew out from Denver, and spend lots of quality time with Aaron's parents, extended family and good friends.  Aaron's Aunt Deina has a turkey as a pet!