American History Museum

We had a great time at the Smithsonian. They had tons of displays. They had an entire display of President Lincoln, Dorothy's ruby slippers, actual trains and buses, 1st lady dresses, etc. The restoration of the Star Spangled Banner has been completed, the one that inspired Frances Scott Key to write the National Anthem, was on display too. Last time we were here, they were still working on the restoration.

Happy Birthday to me!!

I had a wonderful birthday. It was snowing in the morning, so I thought maybe church was going to be cancelled, they tend to do that here. Alexis made me a chocolate cake from scratch, frosted it with chocolate ganache, and chocolate chips, and of course, homemade icecream. It was so yummy. She's becoming quite the chef.
The day before my birthday, Saturday, we went to DC and went to the American History Museum, had really yummy Greek food for dinner and the best cupcakes ever. Lavender Moon Cupcakery in Alexandria. They have the best cupcakes ever!!! Even better than Cakelove, well, maybe not better than Cakelove, but they have different flavors. I had a chocolate cupcake with bloodorange and chocolate ganache, vanilla cupcake with lemoncurd, hazelnut cupcake, it had hazelnuts in the cupcake and a rasberry hazelnut frosting. My favorite the Belgium chocolate -- this tasted like the Godiva Cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory.

I can't believe I'm 36 now. 40 is right around the corner, yikes.

Gymnastics Meet, Feb 19th

Alexis has been taking gymnastics, she had her first gymnastics meet. She placed on the uneven bars and did an amazing job on her balance beam routine. She did a fantastic roundoff of the beam. She had lots of fun and really enjoyed her meet.

Valentine's Day

We started out the day with heart shaped pancakes and pink eggs, thanks to Alexis, it was yummy. We also made big sugar cookies for our treat, so good. Friday I went to a deposition for a divorce case and they wanted the transcript by Monday, which also happened to be Presidents' Day. Are you kidding me? The deposition was of two toxicologists, so not your typical divorce case. They were trying to prove or disprove whether traces of cocaine, sprinkled in milk, would show up in a drug test. Are you serious? So I learned everything and them some about cocaine, it's composition, etc.
So I spent the entire weekend working on that transcript. Up until midnight Friday and Saturday, all day Saturday and yeah for Sunday, break.
I still had not completed the transcript, so I woke up at 12:30 am Monday morning to finish it. Completely insane, but I wanted to keep the Sabbath Day holy. I finally finished it by 9:00 a.m. and took a little nap. What a weekend. Since it was a holiday Saturday, I did take a small break. We went to Confessions of a Shopaholic. I was the best break ever. For a few hours I was able to completely lose myself in this movie. It was definitely the most eventful Valentine's Day I've ever had.

3rd Snow Day February 2nd

Yeah for snow days, no school. Alexis played with her friend Alexis all day. They didn't miss being at school at all.