Friday (Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday…. Don’t know this reference? Watch this video, it’s a pop sensation) my college roommate Katie Dalton became our first official house guest in our new place. She came down from Philly and stayed the night. I hadn’t seen her since she left for her mission for our church a year and a half ago. It was so great to see her! She’s one of those friends that you can pick right up with, like no time has passed at all. What a treat!
Saturday we bid Katie adieu and headed in to DC to meet up with our friends Gene and Rebecca to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival. I worked with Rebecca in Lexington before they moved to DC, and now that we live just an hour or so away we are excited to get to hang out with them.
The blossoms were gorgeous and Charly was an absolute trooper on her first outing to DC. Seriously, she slept nearly the entire time we were out as I had her snuggled up next to me in the sleepy wrap. Lets hope she does that well with air travel when we fly to Utah this month!
Me, Charly and Rebecca
While admiring the blossoms we were met with a little surprise rain-storm-turned-hail on our way to the Jefferson Memorial and got SOAKED! Rebecca let me borrow her small umbrella so Charly and I stayed dry (aside from my feet and new shoes… sad story I’ll post about later) but Matt was not so lucky. Here he is with Gene, soaked completely through. In addition to the rain and hail, there was some fierce wind, so the poor wet boys were chilled to the bone.
Matt and Gene, Soaked at the Jefferson
We rode the metro over to East Market and checked out the vendors there, where we happened upon Curbside Cupcakes. Of course we had to indulge. I had an oatmeal raisin one and Matt had red velvet. I’d totally buy them again. We also happened upon a mini donut stand, and I have to say, the donuts stole the show. We only bought one small bag (since we had all just eaten cupcakes) but we could have easily each eaten our own bag. Oh man. They were good.
There is a baby under that blanket...
From Gene and Rebecca’s we made the 2 hour trek to Richmond to watch General Conference with Matt’s fam. We have a tradition of having a craft girls night while the fellas are at the priesthood session, so Saturday evening we made these adorable fabric necklaces I found on this blog.
My new necklace
We stayed there through Sunday and enjoyed a few sessions of conference. Love, love conference weekend! The talks were fantastic. I can’t wait to finish listening to the Saturday sessions (since we were in DC and didn’t watch them)
All in all, a fantastic weekend!
