{East Coast Adventures}

On the train after we landed





On the plane to Virginia!

Waiting to check in at SLC Airport

Trip with Paul

We moved to Herndon, VA about one and a half months ago. Paul got a promotion and is the Associate Director of the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer (that is a mouth full).

I got to go out for a few days and look at a couple of places and see some of D.C. It was a nice little get away.

Our flight from Salt Lake City to the Dulles Airport was about five hours. It was exhausting. Audrey did not sleep a wink. She still happens to love her binky when she is tired and of course we lost her binky for most of the flight. Found it about an hour before we landed and then lost it again about five minutes later. But founds it again when we landed by the same guys foot! Everyone on the plane was nice and she our girls did a really good job. So that was nice to hear after trying to keep the babes happy.

Tinker our dog also got to fly with us and did really well. We thought she might have diarrhea after all the stress but she didn't. We were so relieved to find a clean kennel.

After we picked our the dog and our luggage we waited outside for about an half an hour waiting for a bus to take us to the car rental place. Needless to say some people got a nice ear full from Paul. The kids were cold and Audrey some how managed to throw her binky in traffic. Luckily Paul saved it before it got ran over. We eventually got into our temporary apartment at about 2 A.M. and the girls slept through the night. It was wonderful. Anyways

So far we are loving it here. It has been hard being away from my sister but still exited for the new opportunities here. Here are some pictures from our trip over!

Ketchup!!!

The last time there was any activity on this blog it was September 2010. For whatever reason "Canning" seemed to be the death of our blog for a while. Not what I would call going out with a bang, but hey we are back! There is so much to "ketchup" on and talk about. It will probably take a while to get all caught up, but hopefully this will become a much more regular part of our record keeping now that we are a lot farther away from loved ones. Here are a few things we will hopefully get caught up on that our blog missed out on...

• Audrey was born...holy blondie!-January 2011


• Paul got a couple promotions...yay!-May and November 2011


• We got kicked out of our Layton house...grrrrrr!-October 2011


• Oh well, we are moving to Virginia...what the!?!-November 2011


• Welcome to Virginia and four-story living...fun stuff!-January 2012


• Audrey is Walking...victory!-February 2012

There is obviously a lot to talk about and some explaining to do, but I only have time for the last one on the list tonight. Our little baby girl Audrey (nickname-Audsy) started walking today. She has been standing up for a few months now and scooting around the couches and other things, but tonight she started spontaneously walking and then we immediately brought her upstairs so that we could document this awesome event as seen below...

Hope you enjoy these very short little clips. There is more to come from the Blanchard Clan, East Coast edition. Much love!

Laterz