Our trip to D.C.

Well, I am officially back at work today and healing nicely from the appendectomy. Alli enjoyed having my mom out here while I recovered and certainly wore her out :)  Alli is still not great with the eating but we go back next Thursday to meet with her GI doc so hopefully we'll get some assistance or answers then.  Last Friday, my mom returned to WA and Garrett's mom arrived here.  We went to the Nordstrom opening in Burlington but because Miss Alli decided to sleep in, we missed the speeches and walking on the red carpet. Oh well, it was fun and Alli was thrilled because she got more pink bunnies (her lovey that shows up in many pictures!) Apparently, you can never have too many bunnies :)

On Saturday, Garrett and I flew down to D.C. for a weekend of fun. My law school hosted a weekend-long event culminating in a swearing in ceremony at the US Supreme Court. We had a great time visiting with my former classmates and touring the city. It is such a great place to visit but we overdid it a little with our walking on Sunday and were both feeling it!!!

Here we are at the cocktail reception hosted by my law school at the swanky Hay Adams hotel.

Touring DC ~ as close as we got to the White House :)

The actual swearing in ceremony was quite brief but exciting as we saw the justices up close and got to meet Justice Ginsberg ~ not exactly my favorite justice (yes, I'm a Scalia and Thomas fan!) but it was still fun and made for some good pictures.

With Dean John O'Brien and President Marty Murphy ~ both of whom have been wonderful to me!

Before the swearing in ceremony

After the ceremony with Justice Ginsburg

As much fun as we had, we were most excited to return home to see Alli, who gave us big smiles and snuggles when we got there!!! Nothing better than that! She and her Gramma had a very funfilled weekend. Garrett and Alli will fly back to WA with Adele tomorrow and I plan to joint them this weekend. Other than that, there's not much going on with us. As I mentioned, I'm healing nicely and no longer need pain meds but our trip to D.C. was a friendly reminder that I still need to take it easy ~ I'm terrible at that . . .