Bamboozled By Burks

Oct 19, 2011

Back Home!!

After a fantastic trip to Phoenix and St. George Bryn had to catch up on a few of her favorite things.

She played with the blinds, secured her fort,

made a mess while eating, and tried on all her shoes to make sure they still fit!

She had lots of things to do, but luckily she had her trusty flamingo to ride on while she did them all!

Most of all, she's just happy to be home!

These pictures are actually a mixture of the Phoenix and St. George trips Jen made while out west. Not long after Jen booked her tickets her cousin got engaged and happened to plan her wedding the weekend that Jen arrived in Phoenix. Luckily Jen was able to see most of the Plumb side while on vacation.

It didn't take our little girl long to shed her clothes and jump into the nearest

dirt pile. Her new favorite thing to do is strip naked in her crib at night.

Unfortunately she isn't quite potty trained yet, so there's that...

Earthquakes, Hurricanes, But Not the End of the World as We Know it

The girls are safely back from Phoenix, the kitchen remodel is about 90% finished and yet the earth still shakes!! After surviving ice storms, tornados, and two blizzards of historical proportions, we assumed that we were done with the natural disasters that we were told "never" happen in D.C. Liars!!!

First: the 6.0 earthquake that didn't do a dang thing. The internet meme going around after the earthquake involved people blogging and tweeting pictures of the devastation. My favorites were those with crooked pictures or tipped over water bottles. Behold our devastation!

This was our Earthquake

And our Hurricane

To be honest the earthquake was slightly scarier than the Hurricane, but only slightly. If somebody hadn't told me there were two natural "disasters" I would've thought we had just had a normal rainy weekend with a little more wind than usual. However, the earthquake did provide a little excitement for the girls. Bryn had just settled down for a nap in her crib when Jen felt the house start to shake. She bolted up and ran for the nearest doorway before remembering her child in the back room. She then sprinted into Bryn's room, scooped up the bewildered child, and rushed to the doorway. By the time she got there the earthquake was over so they made their way outside where she met up with a few of our confused neighbors. I on the other hand was sitting outside and felt the ground shake. Seeing a large semi truck driving through the neighborhood I deduced that the slight tremble I felt was not dissimilar to the movement of a bridge when a heavy truck passes over it. I commented to my buddy that "trucks that large shouldn't be driving in neighborhoods like this." Moments later thousands of students came sprinting out of the law school whereupon my group of beer loving buddies reasoned that the best thing to do in our situation, was to head to the bar and catch happy hour!! Only a bunch of lawyers would think about drinking immediately after an earthquake.

Phoenix Rising

Our story continues with Jen's adventures while Nate was busy destroying the house. For those of you who know us, we're suckers for a good deal on airfare. Last year, the girls (Jen, Bryn, and Grandma Steph) snagged some unlimited Jet Blue travel passes and ended up visiting nearly every corner of the country. This year our favorite Pehrsons were all congregating in Phoenix and Southwest just so happened to run an airfare deal from DC to Phoenix. With all of the boys in their last year of graduate school, Clay in Pharmacay, Cody in Medical School, and Nate in Law School, we figured this might be the last time the Pehrson kids will all be together for a long time.

Heather played the gracious hostess and kept Jen and Bryn well fed, entertained, and gloriously occupied for 10 days. Although I suspect most of this trip was spent taking pictures of the kids. Heather and Jocelyn have done a wonderful job documenting the week, (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here,) that we're just going to add our favorites to the blog (mainly for our yearly blog book we print out!)

Enjoy!