Washington DC and Virginia

Pat and I went to Washington/Virginia at the end of June to July 5th, for the World Police and Fire Games. It was an amazing week with so much to see and do but we definitely didn't see it all! It was wonderful to spend time just the 2 of us (and 20 teammates!), we had a great time! They got silver in the games and we got to experience a part of the U.S. we never thought we would!







The Vietnam War Memorial was powerful, the picture below doesn't grasp its magnitude since you can't see how many lives were lost.

This massive helicopter flew right over our heads, while we were on the double decker tour bus. We decided Obama was in it!

All the museums along the National Mall are free, they are so impressive!
Natural History Museum

Hope Diamond















Air and Space Museum




National Museum of American History


We ended up being in the middle of the 4th of July Parade. It was amazing!






Hockey Wives: Zavisha, Kelly, McCann & Stachniak

National Harbour


Athletes Village: a Brazilian competitor died during a cycling race, this was the night they had a memorial for him.


Brutal picture quality but it was hilarious silent dancing. Everyone wears headphones so you can't hear what music they are dancing too. And if you're not wearing headphones at all it just looks like a bunch of people gone crazy!

Julia Graduated….

….preschool!



Her sweet friend Danica

Julia worked on her map all year. She wasn't allowed to finish it until she could point out all the continents. She was taught the Continents song at school and Pat and I would find ourselves humming all the time.


Julia lost her first tooth when we were in Virginia, she lost it somewhere when playing at the lake house in Sylvan so her and Graggy wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy.



Then a couple weeks later, Owen pulled out Julia's 2nd tooth! She's happy in this picture but she bawled her face off while Sydney, Ben and Owen (still holding the tooth) laughed!