Wendel Family: May 2009

Friday, May 29, 2009

Wendels Love Our American Heritage

Mount Vernon

George Washingtons resting place at Mount Vernon

At the base of the Washington Monument

Standing tall like the Washington Monument!

JFK's resting place at Arlington Cemetery.

Arlington Cemetery

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The Lincoln Monument

Jefferson Monument

Learning about the realities of slavery

I wish I had taken pictures of California and Connecticut! Fifty Nifty United States. May they always remain independent, but united, states.

I tried to put names next to each gown but it kept screwing up the placement of the pictures. Check Jessicas' blog for names.

Cemetery Hill at the Gettysburg battle ground. "But every night at Gettysbury when everything is still, they say a golden bugle blows at Cemetery Hill"

The Cemetery at Gettysburg. This cemetery was dedicated by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address. Many of the graves dedicated that day had no names.

Doing what we can to stay as American as we can be!

Family trip

Who's the hot mama with the canon! woooeee! ha ha ha

This is Corey on the hunt for alphabet letters. We played the alphabet game about a million times. It was good fun. I am realizing he is not buckled up. Stinker.

Roamin' around DC.

This is Megan carrying the 'snack pack'. Everyone had to take their turn. It held vital things like water bottles, allergy medicine, chapstick and, of course, snacks!

Mom and Megan lagging behind. (We were lagging on purpose so we could eat our Symphony chocolate without anyone noticing! Ha Ha! Look at us! Our cheeks are packed full!)

The first day we were in D.C. it was sooooo cold. It doesn't look cold in the pictures but we were freezing! It was so cold even Corey's legs were beginning to feel it--and his legs are accustom to weather because he wears shorts all the time! So we traded socks. He pulled my socks up to his thighs and I squeezed into his!