Josh's 2nd news appearance

Well this time I have to say was unintentional. This week Josh's bank was robbed and as you can see from this picture Josh was the teller. So, if any of you recognize this man you can let us know so we can maybe catch him. Apparently he has hit several Regions banks in SC, GA and FL. Here is the link to the full story. Josh was okay and he only slipped him a note but it still was not a fun experience and it is never good getting a phone call from your husband saying "We were just robbed....but I'm okay".
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Sweitzer Farewell

We wanted to say goodbye to some of our friends the Sweitzer's. You know when we moved to Charleston we didn't realize that our friends would be in the military which meant they would eventually move away. If only I would have known that then....
Anyway, they are moving to Germany for a 3 year stay and I'm sure they will have a blast once all the details are taken care of...find a house, enroll in school, get a drivers license, get some of their stuff, 3 months later get the rest of their stuff, find the supermarket.....speak German??

I stole some pics off of Debbie's blog and I had to go a ways back to try and find a family photo of all 5. I found one of the girls and one of the boys and figured that would work as well.

So I guess all there is left to say is Viva la Sweitzer's ...

Oh wait...That's not German, oh well I guess just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you know everything :)

More pics

Ranger waiting for me to let him get his treat which is right in front of him

Visit Home

Here's Norman

Lilly Belle

We went to LA for the week and visited my family. We had a great time and celebrated my dad's birthday. I'll post those pictures later. Here are some other pics.

MS trip

Ranger asleep

Hannity asleep....they didn't get along too well but Ranger played with Miley (a yorkie)

Josh and Saxton

We went to a Thai restaurant in Hattiesburg and I just thought this was funny when they brought out my water and rice.

We went to Mississippi to visit some friends. Here are a few pics from there.

Rainbow

Just before we left for our trip to LA and MS I looked out in my backyard and this is what I saw.

youth trip

A few weeks ago I went on a youth trip to Kings Fest. We took almost 30 youth to Kings Dominion in VA. We spent 3 days at the park and the afternoons and nights were filled with concerts. We heard Casting Crowns, Skillet, Barlow Girl, Family Force 5, The Newsboys, Kutless, Toby Mac...and many more. It was a lot of fun but exhausting. I was surprised I was able to keep up.

To be continued....

I just got back from a youth trip and I am getting ready for our vacation to MS and LA. I will post some if I can when we are gone. I should have lots of pics to share.

The 4th

We went down to Folly Beach that morning and visited our friends the Tuckers who were staying at a condo on the beach. I had never really been to Folly before b/c we always went to the other beaches here. I actually liked it a lot. We stayed until a little after 1 and as we were heading back out the traffic was backed up for miles going in. There is only one main way onto the beach. That night we went over to the Nicklas's house for fireworks and food. There were several families there and we had a really good time. The kids threw two tubs full of water balloons with the guys.

We got our Fence

So.. When we bought our house we knew that we wanted to fence in the backyard. It is a very large yard and we wanted to be able to let our dog play without running around our neighborhood and we wanted to keep out the kids from our yard. We scheduled the fence about a month ago (busy time of year).. so this week a crew came out and in 2 1/2 days they were able to put it up. I was really impressed with the quality of the work. I don't like the color but I have been assured that it will darker in the next couple of weeks so it will probably look a little more like I expected but I can't tell you how great it is to have this fence up. I love it.

Cool Chest

I got this really neat chest at an antique store and I love it. It is so different and really old. Not sure how old but the inside is covered in Chinese writing. I was probably recently painted on but I liked the design on the front b/c it fits nicely in my living room.

DC Day 3: Monuments and Memorials

Our future home

DC day 3: Rolling Thunder

We watched thousands of bikes roll through DC on Memorial Day. There was a lot of people but it didn't seem crowded. It was pretty amazing. The bikes rode through DC for hours so you always heard a constant roar in the background.

DC Day 2

This is the Think Tank.
I was really excited about this b/c it is all about cognitive research. You can check our the link above. Unfortunately nothing was going on when we visited.

We visited the DC zoo, which was a free zoo. We spent almost 5 hours there. We did a lot of walking. Did anyone ever know that DC is not flat. There are many hills that make it quite a workout when you are walking all day.

DC Day 1

Museum of Natural History ( Reminds me of the movie Night at the Museum)

Just a gift Josh picked up for me..It looks a lot like the hope diamond doesn't it

A look down Pennsylvania Ave (if you look hard you the the capital)

Waiting for the Metro (we walked everywhere...)

Just a really cool looking building.

On our first day in DC we had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Natural History. Afterwards we went in to the bottom of this Smithsonian museum with our friends for a Friday night get together that has been meeting for 50 years. The Smithsonian scientists get together each Friday night in the basement of the museum (which is where their offices are). I have to admit it was pretty cool to see manuscripts and items that are not on display but are used for research purposes.