Thanksgiving!

Since we are going to be in the DR over Thanksgiving, we celebrated with my parents the week before. yum!!!

Eric & Karin got engaged!

and we had a fun time celebrating their engagement with a night out in Old Town - drinks at Chart House, champagne and dinner at Jackson 20, & music and coffee at Tiffany Tavern.

Our 4th Anniversary!

On Nov. 5th we celebrated our 4th anniversary! Kevin bought me some really beautiful flowers, which I took with us so I could enjoy them when we went away for the weekend. We stayed at a B&B in Roanoke, VA - it was SO nice to get away & just relax together. They have a great art scene & we REALLY loved the new Taubman Museum of Art and their Pae White exhibit blew our minds!

Isabela is born!

Sheryl and Joey's baby, Isabela, is born and we get to meet her at Morgan's dad's birthday!

Halloween

Halloween this year we went as Courtney Love & Kurt Cobain. We started the night at Art Outlet's Ofrenda event - which had some cool art installations & an AWESOME trapeze artist! Then we went downtown to an awesome costume party with some friends!

Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

Lisa & Brian's annual pumpkin carving party was a lot of fun!

Braxton comes to visit

Our SUPER cute nephew!

Fall Races

The fall was (like always) full of races. This year Kevin didn't run in any, but we did go to cheer his dad in the Army 10 Miler & his dad, sister and her husband in the Marin Corp Marathon!

Party Like It's 1999...

That's right....time for our 10 year high school reunions! Kevin's was in Bahrain so we didn't get to go :( However we did go to mine and it was a lot of fun catching up with old friends! Go Robinson Rams! I think Kevin had a pretty good time hanging with the spouses :)

Kevin's Birthday Fiesta!

We had a really great Mexican themed fiesta for Kevin's 28th! We had a lot of awesome food (thanks everyone for bringing stuff!) and we even had a Mexican 'thumb' wrestling tournament and fake mustaches :)

Elementary!

Went to see our friend Steve's band Elementary play at Rock'n Roll Hotel in DC - apparently after we left the cast from Real World DC showed up - although now that I've seen some of that season I think I'm glad we didn't stick around. Steve's band was awesome though!

Welcome home Eric!!!

Eric finally comes home from Afghanistan!

Lisa's bday!

havin' some fun at Lisa's 49th birthday!

2009 House Guests!

This past year we had a lot of friends come visit us at our new place. Brent & Erin came with baby Ander and stayed with us for a week while Brent was at a work conference up here. Matt & David came for a visit (and we even got to sit next to Arnold Schwarzanegger when we ate at Clyde's in Georgetown). Jason & Gray came and we did some site seeing - 2 of my favorites, the modern art gallery of the National Portrait Gallery and the Jefferson Memorial. Oh and of course many visits from Ralphy the dog :)

Artomatic 2009

Having some fun at the Artomatic opening on Friday - the gallery installed our "handmade garden" there all made from recycled materials (orginally installed/built by the community at the Torpedo Factory & then transferred to this years Artomatic).

Farewell Susannah!

Mary hosted a cocktails & sparkles party in honor of Susannah...who is leaving us to move to Raleigh...but I think she will be back :)

Jail, Bail & Cocktails!

this month I have been raising money for the Greater Washington Area's Muscular Dystrophy Association. On May 20th we (myself & 2 friends from work Mary & Tara) are being "arrested" and taken to "jail" and fed "bread and water" which is really lunch at La Portas. We have to raise our "bail money" in order to get out of jail! The goal is to raise $3000 & all of the money goes to benefit MDA!

Here are some pics from our fundraiser that we had last week...

Allison's Birthday

We celebrated my 28th birthday Kentucky Derby style. A lot of friends came out & it was a lot of fun (oh and mint juleps may look pretty, but they taste awful!)

Claire's Big Race

Bagels & Mimosa's EARLY Sunday morning - check

Tacky head gear & beads - check

Cool poster made by moi - check

Claire Rockin her first 10 miler - priceless

Messiah Ladies

Catching up with my girls (and our men) that I grew up going to church with. We had a great dinner at Mike's in Springfield. Lauren, Allison & Myself all have birthdays around the same time so heather made each of us these awesome pink strawberry cupcakes!