adorable {cousins}

how lucky is the grandma of these cute cousins?  the little twin girls cracked me up the whole time we were doing the pics!

{preston} is 6 months!

how can he already be old enough to sit up?!?  kim- it was good to see you and preston...next time hopefully we can spend a little more time together!  you have a sweet, sweet little boy!

in n out

aquarium

we are visiting my aunt debbie in texas during our time of "homelessness."  thursday we took macie to the dallas world aquarium.  we all loved it!  macie had a great time.  i think her favorite were the alligators....we couldn't get her to walk away from them.

4th of july

for any "mathies" out there... the perfect star was made by my sister using a compass and straight edge construction!  who said constructions don't come in handy in "real" life?!?

d.c. cupcakes

our last evening in d.c. i drug my sick husband to georgetown cupcakes... aka TLC's d.c. cupcakes.  we waited in line for about 30 minutes in 100 degree heat...just as i had heard we would have to do.  i had a red velvet, lemon blossom, coconut and birthday cake...yes, i had 4 cupcakes (well, one of them was for breakfast the next morning)!  it was such a cute little cupcake shop...i can't wait to watch the new episodes now that i have been there!

days 2,3,& 4 in d.c.

wow!  what a whirlwind the last 3 days have been.  i don't think i would consider this a vacation...more of a business trip.  wednesday we had meetings all morning where we networked with the awardees from the other states and the national council of teachers of mathematics.  that evening we had dinner at the historic decatur house on lafayette square and listened to sam kass, white house chef and food initiative coordinator for michelle obama.  for the first course of the dinner we ate on white house china!  thursday was spent at the national science foundation.  that afternoon blake and i had the opportunity to meet our representative, james lankford, at the capital...right outside of the house floor (between votes)!  last night was the awards ceremony at the ronald reagan building.  i was fortunate that my friend (lisa's) mother (connie) was in town and was able to go with blake to the ceremony.  the guest speaker was arne duncan, secretary of education.  this morning we took a white house tour and had meetings all morning at the executive office building.  then we had the fabulous opportunity to meet vice-president biden and jill.  we were hopeful of meeting president obama, but he was in colorado all day meeting with people from the wildfires.  although my activities are over, blake and i are staying one more day to see dc together.  i'm looking forward to a day together at our own pace!