Thanksgiving Day at the Register House

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Well, this will be a pretty boring blog since we didn't take many pictures. Now, it would have been a SUPER-interesting blog if we had had the camera ready for action when the oven burst into flames while Todd was trying to save our poor turkey, nearly singing his eyebrows off in the process. But alas, these were the only two pictures we ended up with. And in case you were wondering, Todd is burn-free and his bushy eyebrows remain in tact, and, more importantly, the turkey turned out really great. We had an enjoyable Thanksgiving despite the near turkey disaster. :)

Space Shuttle Enterprise

It was pretty impressive to walk underneath this thing.

Riley tries to escape

DC Trip

Well we just got back from our trip to DC. We went down on Monday morning and stayed with Robyn and Peter. All of us went to the Air and Space Museum out by Dulles Airport, complete with SR-71, Space Shuttle, Concorde, and just about every other type of plane. The next day Mom, Dad, Sara and I (Robyn graciously offered to watch Riley) drove into Arlington National cemetery to catch the tourmobile! I was a little skeptical at first but it turned out to be really great. It stops at all the major destinations and you can hop on and off all day with narrated tours in between the stops.



The group in front of a Huey Chopper at the Air and Space Museum


Sara and I at Arlington National Cemetery. 680,000 buried; 25 more buried every day; There's enough room at that rate to keep going till 2060


Outside the Museum of Natural History. Mom's leg was killing her!


Disaster struck at the Lincoln Memorial. After making the switch from film to digital, Dad went to take a picture and poof; "memory card error" was all he got. All his pictures were hosed. I said, "Gee Dad, that doesn't happen very often." We're hoping he's not scarred for life.


Riley absolutely loved this train table!! He would disappear for hours down in the basement just playing with the trains. I thought about just shutting him inside the drawer before we headed home but Sara said no. Oh well.

Traintastic!!

Riley had a great 2nd Birthday last night. This kid definitely has trains on the brain. We had train books, sweaters, tracks, legos, ectc. all out in force at the Register household. It was great having Mom and Dad out for the event. They loved seeing Riley in all his trainage.

Riley's 2nd Birthday!!

He was a little timid at first but got the idea of opening presents soon enough.

No thank you

Riley was not impressed with the microphone.

Sharing the Dirt

So Dirty...Again!!!

Well, he's at it again!!! What can we say, our son LOVES dirt...and really, can you blame him? Yesterday was such a beautiful day that Riley and I spent most of it outside. We went to the park for 1 1/2 hours so Riley could "run, run, run" as he so eloquently puts it. Then Todd took 1/2 day at work and spent the afternoon clearing rocks in our backyard with a neighbor boy up the street. Of course Riley wanted to be outside with his daddy, so I told him he could go and get as dirty as he wanted and play to his little heart's content. Needless to say, he took me at my word. He got VERY dirty. I had to wash his hair twice to get all the dirt out. But, it was worth it to see him playing outside. How sad that there will probably not be anymore days like that left this year!!!

Thanks to Riley, and Todd of course, our backyard is looking much better...now we are only semi-white trash instead of full blown. One more trip to the dump, a little weed-wacking, and planting the maple tree we bought last night should do the trick until spring comes along. I can't wait!