reunion...

We met up with a bunch of friends from past DR trips to celebrate the return of Joey & Tracy Johnson, who had been living/traveling around India and into eastern Asia. We ate delicious Indian food at Panjshir in Falls Church (down the road from our place) & it was great to hear stories form their trip!



In the picture: Dave & Risa Marburg, Antony & April Fletcher, Joey & Tracy Johnson, Caroline & Tedd Baker, & us

Corbin's 1st birthday

we had lots of fun at corbin's first bday ... who wouldn't with a moon bounce, elmo, and balloon animals :)

Trip to the National Portrait Gallery

There was a great hip hop exhibit that featured graffiti, video, photography, installation & spoken word...and my favorite or the day- paintings by Kehinde Wiley

here are a few pics from our day there (I even went back with Mary for a work fieldtrip - you know, gotta keep in the know about the DC arts scene :) One image is from the hip hop show and the others are from 2 permanent exhibits in their modern art section (sculptors Duane Hanson & George Segal).

Check out the show here...

Sheryl & Joey's Wedding - May 3rd, 2008

Sheryl is a good friend of mine from high school. Morgan and I were in the wedding party and we all had a great time. We stayed at the grand hyatt in Reston town center, and the rehearsal dinner was right there at McCormick and Schmicks. In the morning MOrgan and I walked to meet the gals to get our hair did at PR at Partners. There was a huge dog festival going on so that was a lot of fun :)

Her cousin from NY did our makeup and she did a fantastic job. We then all got dressed and took a limo to Raspberry Plains in Leesburg, VA where Sheryl got ready. The ceremony & reception were both there & everything was SO beautiful. The cake was made by her sister Alison who hand painted hundred of sugar flowers over 2 months to decorate it. She is so talented.

The wedding was a lot of fun ... the 80's rock band & the jelly bean favor bar was my favorite part...and I think Kev loved the sliders (mini burgers) we had at cocktail hour :)