Hopefully worth the wait.

I know you've all been waiting for it...okay maybe not, but here are lots of pictures from our busy month.  We have about 1500 pictures from our trip (many of them taken by Officers family - my hands were kind of full most of the trip.) and other things, so prepare to be overloaded.  It's hard to decide what to put on here because we saw so much, so I'm probably going to leave out a lot of the historical sites because if you want to see them I know google can probably get you some great pics.  But here are some (okay so maybe a lot) of our favorites.  Okay and I will say now that my 1000 pictures are worth millions of words so I'll only comment some of the pictures.

Tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington. We were able to have a "behind the scenes" kind of tour from a friend of some of the officers we traveled with.  Aside all the extra stuff we went to DC for,  you cannot leave there, or anywhere in DC really, without appreciation for our great nation and those who serve to protect it. You are surrounded by so much history and we felt such patriotism. 

President's Chopper - I can't recall the name.

Stairwell at the Capital

Police officer's Memorial during law enforcement week - about 10,000 officers I think were said to be there.

Window shopping in Chinatown - how could you not want this little guy - our cute nephew

Walking, we did a lot of walking...

The metro - we're such tourists - we used it to get around for most of the week. We climbed/hauled a stroller/infant seat up this because it was not working and there was a forever long line of lazies (some legit I'm sure) to take the elevator.  Gotta admit though, it was a tough climb about 3/4 of the way up.

The Hope Diamond on display at the Smithsonian

Georgetown Cupcakes...Mmm!

My cute Mother and Sister in Law.

The very center of the capital and other pics from our tour.

Flash Standing Long Jump Competition on the Mall.

This Veteran was at the WWII memorial - on his right is a picture of him at 17 in the Navy.

My cute Sister in law who took much of the Pictures and Our favorite cousin Carl!

  

White House

Cupcake meeting the grandparents and family for the first time.

Our view of the White House and the Rose Garden.

If you look closely at the next 3 pictures you can see us taking the picture below.  Officer's sister took that from the street outside the gates where most tourists take pictures. Kind of cool.

You can see the whole ceremony here on youtube .

Cupcake and I got to meet the President - whatever else he may or may not be - he is still the President.  He even talked with me very briefly about Cupcake.  He asked how old she was, if this was my first and then said she sure is excited to meet me (She was sound asleep you can see in the picture).  That was about it.  It's already written in her baby book.  She was a whopping 2 weeks old that day.

 

Following our White House visit we met with Senator Risch and Crapo - I only have a picture with Senator Risch.

Our view the next time we went to visit.

Top Cop Ceremony & Law Enforcement memorial

Back home for the Medal of Honor Ceremony.

Handsome pointing at Daddy's picture/plaque that will hang in the Department - FOREVER!

Cute cousins that came all the way from CA. - So glad they were there!

Being awarded the Medal of Honor by the Governor.  

Silver Star and Life Saving Award

Officer was awarded a Life Saving award and the Silver Star from the Police Department as well as a Hero Award from the County Paramedics.

This last picture is the woman whose life they saved.  It was really wonderful to meet her.  I'm sure it must have been difficult, but she even spoke about the events that night and how grateful she was for Officer and his coworkers.

Pheeew...Okay that was an overload - hope you enjoyed - or even made it to the end.  There is more to come of other fun things to come so check back!