Another victim of the over the hill club!!

Yep Walter has joined the ranks of over the hill. We celebrated his birthday this past Monday in true 40th birthday style. I had a guess a little too much fun with this. We had a nice party for him in the evening where we were joined by friends and family. I think he really enjoyed his day. Although this is what he woke up to. LOL!!

































I did have a little too much fun with balloons, but hey you only turn 40 once.


















































































































That is not a Christmas tree in the background, LOL, it is our Halloween tree. Here is the cake I made for him and some of the food we had.





















































Here is the birthday boy and his inferno cake. (Yes I got a fire permit, LOL). He almost got them all blown out, but there was one stubborn candle.

Summer 2009 in Pictures

Well I have been a bad, bad blogger over the summer and thought I would do a quick recap of what we were up to over the summer, but do it mostly through pictures. We went camping to Fort Meade, Maryland near Baltimore, took a quick trip to Ocean City, Maryland, went to Chocolate World in Hershey Pennsylvannia, had a fun get together at our house on the Fourth of July, went to Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvannia, took a trip down to Charleston, South Carolina to scope out the area before we move there next year. Went to the beach there and got to see our first alligator!! Celebrated Vanessa's birthday, enjoyed some summertime thunderstorms and finally sending off the kids to another year at school. Whew!!!

Crazy, busy weekend!!

Well we had a whirlwind weekend here in the Bennett household. Vanessa went through the temple on Saturday and a friend of her's from Washington State flew out for it. Walter was still sick and Nicole was coming down with the same thing so he stayed home with the kids while I got the great opportunity to go with Vanessa. It was a gorgeous, hot day here in Maryland and the temple was packed. Parking was hard to find, which is a wonderful thing. We enjoyed our session and spending this special day with Vanessa.






















































After the session and photos we headed out to a late lunch to Red Robin in Germantown. I haven't been to Red Robin since Spokane. We had a nice lunch with Vanessa, David, Ben, Kathy and me. Walter graciously agreed to pay. LOL!! It was a long day and we finally got home in the evening. Then Vanessa, David and I headed to Sam's Club to pick up Skyler's birthday cake and decided after that to show David the covered bridge. We got home pretty late and we were exhausted and had to get up early the next day to head into D.C. Oh ya, the dogwood blossoms at the temple grounds were just stunning!! These are my new favorite blossom. Just gorgeous!!



















































On Sunday, Vanessa, David and I headed into D.C. for the day to show David the sites. It was going to be another scorcher day here on the east coast. In fact it got into the 90's there and I thought I was gonna die. LOL!! We took him to the White House, Washington Monument, Holocaust Museum, World War II Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and then walked the entire mall up to the Capital building. Whew!! That's alot of walking if you know D. C. We then headed to Union Station for lunch and a little shopping. After that we caught the metro back to Shady Grove to head home for Skyler's Birthday dinner, cake and ice cream. (I will post about that tomorrow). It was a jam packed weekend and my feet are throbbing and even managed to get a blister, LOL, but it was fun and exciting. Okay, I am off to design for NSD!!!