Out With the Old and in with the New Living Room

This is our living room. That is, after it was repainted and rearranged. Mom and Dad spent two long Saturdays in a row tapeing and painting and putting up the chair rail molding. It was a lot of work, and they were very tired after they finshed, but it was well worth it. The ceiling was painted a whitish yellow color all of the trim was painted since the ceiling and floor molding was an ugly grey color. The old walls were an old peachy color and the ceiling was grey I would say from the looks of it, it is much better, with artwork and color. Mom and Dad were very very very pleased with it when they put up the last two pieces of art and stood back to take a look. Personally I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EMilY WArd

Botanical gardens

there was a sensitive plant, and when you touched the leaves, the leaves folded. they had a room with miniture buildings of D.C. that was made of plants. it was like a jungle. there was a train set that was in front of the building and that made out of wood.

Austin Ward

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Our Second Trip to the Air and Space Museum

This trip we went to the museum with our Grandma and Grandpa Ward and our cousins Sam and Tyler and their parents Barry and Julie. It was alot of fun as we traveled through the musuem and looked at the Air planes and Space tools and the space shuttle and the huge black jet that I can not remember the name of. It was a lot of fun. We each divided into our own groups and took a cell phone with us. Sam, Austin, and Emily were in a group and Tyler,Willy, and Jessica were in a group. The grown ups and Lydia were all in a group together. (Sam, Austin, and Emily were the last group done and everyone was tired and hungry) Emily took a ton of pictures and all were annoyed with her slowness. Over all it was a fun enjoyable experience. (one last side note; Sam and Emily spun as they walked up swirly stairs and had woosy stomaches the rest of the trip.) IT WAS A TON OF FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EMily WARd

D.C. Lights at the Lds Temple

When we went to the Washington D.C. Temple the lights were amazing.




More then the 400,000 lights were lit. There was a concert in the visitor center from the Salvation Army Band they were fantastic this was they're friday night the 7th of December.

Jessica Ward

Visit to Mount Vernon

We took Grandma and Grandpa to Mt. Vernon on Monday the 3rd of December. The weather was a little cold and windy so there were few other visitors. We had a great time. There will be many blogs of this visit since we had such a nice time and we're giving the kids some blog practice. Mt Vernon was Washington's home that he inherited and built into a wonderful plantation. Take a look at the view from his back porch.

Austin's Baptism

Grandma and Grandpa Ward came from Idaho on November 28th. Austin had his 8th Birthday and he was baptized December 1st at the Centreville Va, Stake center. He looked so grown up and it was very special to have the program for just our group. Austin and Bill reported the water to be very COLD. When they were changing back into street clothes they decided the bishop wasn't joking about the cold water. Willy was our greeter, Grandpa gave the talk about Baptism, Lauril talked about the Holy Ghost, Emily led the music and Grandma and Jessica gave the prayers. Sister Ellsworth and the Bishop gave some brief remarks and we had a very nice evening.

November in Virginia

We have been very busy these last few months. We've been involved in our callings and service projects. We had to replace our main water line from the street because it had a hole in the line. Of the three bids we had we saved $2100 by going with a guy from church. There was a delay to get the job done but it worked out ok. Then just 1 week after that fix we had to replace our water heater. It had leaked out into the basement but only destroyed a bag of pinto beans. Luckily it was covered by the home warranty we bought.

Two weeks ago we went to the Marine Corp Museum in Quantico Virginia. We didn't leave enough time to explore the whole thing so we'll have to go back to get another look at it.

This last Saturday we drove along skyline drive which is THE road to travel to see the Autumn colors. We brought a football with us and had a great day.

Here are a few pictures.