Aren't they so cute when they are little?

Happy 60th Birthday Mom!

Two months of preparing came down to last Saturday nights surprise party. What amazes me the most is that she was actually surprised. We sent her on a treasure hunt around town to her favorite places (Walmart, Sam's club and the movie theater). The last place was our house where she was met by 6 cans of silly string. We had a BBQ and then presented her a "life book". This was a book of stories, pictures and memories submitted by family and friends. We all had a good laugh.
For years she said it would be fun to get a pie in the face.

To top off the evening she got her long awaited wish.

I have a crazy mom.

Liberty

Liberty gets her own blog.

http://lookatmeliberty.blogspot.com/

The rest of our trip

We're home from vacation. boo-hoo! Here aer some of the remaining pictures from our trip. Here is a picture of Karen (Jay's mom) working hard on her mission.

It tooks us 3 failed attempts at finding a beach before we found this one. It was the only thing Liberty wanted to do was go to the beach and collect sea shells. Here we are at Sandy Point in Annapolis, MD.

Jay and I were walking ahead and out of the corner of my eye I noticed Liberty was missing for a split second. I turned around and this is what she looked like. She claimed she tripped and fell into the water. Secretly I know she wanted to get wet and of course we had no change of clothes.

Here we are at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.

This is at Arlington National Cemetery. In the background is the tomb of the unknown soldier from WWI. It is guarded 24 hours a day all year round. We were able to see the changing of the guards. It was truly amazing to be there and feel the sacredness of such a reverent place.

This is George Washington's house at Mount Vernon. If you have seen National Treasure II you will remember that part of it was filmed here. They actually had a tour for the movie that we went on. The next picture shows the door that leads into the cellar that Nicolas Cage and the President went in to find the secret tunnel. Here's the bummer. There really is no secret tunnel. But it was still cool to see the chambers.

This is the tomb of George Washington. Next to him on your left is Martha (his wife). I sound like a tour guide don't I.

That's it-of course we didn't get to see everything when we were there, but it was still an amazing experience. If you ever have the chance to go, I highly recommend it.