Downtown Sunday Bike Ride

Last night I took the coolest tour of DC. My friend John Water has lived here for about 2 years and so he took me on a bike ride around the city and it was beautiful! We were there during sunset so I got some pretty cool pictures. Although it was on my point and shoot camera (which doesn't have the best quality) I was able to get some cool shots just for all of you!

Enjoy!

The Spite House

Saturday my roommates Christina and Joceyln and I went to Old Town Alexandria. We ran into the cutest lady that works and is a member of Christ's Church which is where Robert E Lee and Washington use to go to church, I believe Churchill also went there when he came to visit... It was one of the only churches that was kept intact during the Civil War. Anyway this lady went off for I swear 20 plus minutes about the town and the church and history stuff. It was really interesting hearing about some cool things about Virginia.

This is a block that is made out of pebbles. Really annoying to drive on but it definetly makes you feel like you're living back in the olden days.

So anyway she told us about these houses that were built back in the day called "The Spite Houses". Basically people would pull their wagons inbetween the houses and would make indents in the bricks. So the owner of one of the houses decided to spite everyone and build a house 7 feet wide ha ha! So we had to go check it out.

NEW BLOG!!!

Hey Readers! Hope all is well! So I decided to create a blog FINALLY for my photography and designs. I also will be putting some other stuff up from other designers and photographers. So please visit it and comment! There is a link on the right side of this blog and below is a link as well.

http://winsomefotodesign.blogspot.com/

Letter Press

My new interest! Okay so I'm kind of going blog crazy but I totally fell in love with these letter pressed items. I would love to have letter pressed business cards someday even though they would cost a hand and a leg but they are incredible. The pictures below are of wedding table seating cards.

This company also does wedding announcements and every day cards and even baby announcements. Below are some baby announcements that I really liked.

David Perry

So I'm sitting here after midnight surfing the net and I come across Linnea's Fun Blog List on her blog and everything went down hill from there. ha ha! I basically have copied all her links because they're AWESOME! I also randomly ran across this videographer's blog that was incredible. This guy so far is the best I've seen. I love the colors and angles he uses and he looks so professional. So I want you to check him out!

http://davidperryfilms.squarespace.com/

Update from the East Coast

So it's official. I can say that I live in the DC area. Currently I am living not even 5 minutes away from the Pentagon in a very nice neighborhood in a house. But at the beginning of July I will be moving. . . AGAIN. . .to the south side of Alexandria which is just about 10 minutes away from where I am right now.

What an adventure this has been! It's had it's ups and downs but I'm glad I moved out here.

So this weekend was amazing! One of my friends from the ward invited my roommates and I to his Cattle Ranch out in the Shenandoah Mountains. It was so beautiful! 14 people ended up going.

The place we stayed at for the night was the guest house. It was incredible! Part of it dates back to the 1800's. There is a family cemetery on the land.
So we went exploring and checked out the cemetery. Rumor has it that the family was buried on the inside and the slaves were buried around the rock wall as seen in the pictures below. We had to climb through this little hole to get inside to see the graves. There were only three of them that could be seen.


The next morning we all went hiking. The group I went with hiked to these beautiful falls and I couldn't help but stop on the way and take some pics.

Across the country in days

First off I keep looking at those wedding pictures and hate them. I re-edited them a few days after I posted them because they just looked so dull. I will try and put a few pictures up on this post so you can see the difference. I have also realized that when I post pics on blogger that the saturation/color fades majorly, again very frustrating.

So many people don't know this but I'm moving to DC. I officially left Monday morning with my mom. We drove through Wyoming and most of Nebraska Monday. We then took the trek through Iowa and Wisconsin (detouring a bit) to go see my brother Merrick and his wife Vanessa and two kids in Sussex, Wisconsin. They live just outside Milwaukee.

I have forgotten how great my two nieces are! Avery is almost three and Camryn just turned one. They are crazy cute! Camryn is always happy and just so full of love and joy! She gives me hugs and just openly runs to me with a huge smile on her face. Avery is a genius! She sings Disney songs under her breath too. "I wanna be, where the people are....I wanna see, wanna see em dancin!" Oh and did I mention she loves princesses?

(Avery all dressed up as a princess cuddling with grandma!)

So today we went to a place called Holy Hill. It's a catholic church on the highest hill in eastern Wisconsin surrounded by trees. It was way cool. It's nice to see that there are people not of my faith that still have a strong testimony of Christ and love him dearly.

(Avery & Me in front of the Catholic Church on Holy Hill)

(Camryn & Me on top of Holy Hill)

Today we also went down to Lake Michigan and hung out on the beach for a little bit then went to a brewery. ha ha I know kind of weird to go to a brewery when you don't drink beer, but it was fun. They also make root beer and other sodas. We were able to test them... lots of fun..

(Avery & Me at Lake Michigan making funny faces!)
(Avery looking at Seashells)

(Chugging down on the good beer at the brewery. We like to call it Root Beer!)

So Thursday we will be leaving to head over to DC. I'm nervous yet excited. I have a few friends in the area which makes me feel a little bit better, but this is going to be a huge yet great adventure.