Beautiful Days!

We have been having the best weather here this past week. It's been great. It's so warm, in fact, that we went to the beach on Saturday. We didn't go into the water past our ankles, but that's 'cause it's the Atlantic and it's COLD!!

It's been so nice and warm that I made a batch of home-made strawberry ice cream! It turned out very good (I think). I bought the strawberries from our local farm stand and I milked a cow for the cream (just joking- about the cow). This could be a bad combination though: pregnant woman with ice cream maker. I'm considering what my next flavor should be, either peanut butter with peanut butter cups OR peach. Any suggestions?

We had a great Memorial Day weekend. Like I've mentioned already, the weather's been great, so we spent most of it outside. We watched "Pan's Labyrinth" on Friday (not for the weak-hearted) and then Saturday, we headed to the West Hampton beach to enjoy the sun and sand. Sunday, we went into New York to meet up with our friend, Liz. We had a great day there. We went to MoMA for the afternoon for FREE!

Here's Liz and Jason in the garden at MoMA.

One of the displays in the Design and Architecture section of MoMA.

Just a picture of the Empire Building.

Monday, we helped out at our church, giving out free pop (out here- it's called "soda". I guess people in the Mid-West call it "pop") to people who were marching or watching the Memorial Parade.

We just bought our first BBQ. So, we have been cooking on it regularly, it's great. I think it's a necessity for the summer.

Other necessities for the summer:
-Body Shop body butter KEPT IN the fridge
-home-made ice tea
-a fan
-ice cubes, lots of ice cubes
-a nearby beach/body of water
-sunglasses
-flip flops
-ice cream (in any form, on a stick, in a cup, on a cone)

Big Changes and Little Changes

Well, I know that I have been pretty bad about blogging lately. We recently had Jason's mom and dad out visiting us. We also had some friends from Cambridge visiting. Finally, I was in Alberta for 10 days, visiting friends and family.

As the title suggests, there has been some big changes and some smaller changes as well... the biggest (and smallest) change is that I have a new neice! Her name is Emery Janae and she was born on May 6th. Here's her picture.


I was able to meet her five hours after she was born! I flew to Calgary and drove up with my mom the day before her birth. My welcome to Alberta? Driving through a snow storm on the way to Edmonton. Unbelievable.

Another change that we have experienced at the Olfert house is the shaving of Jason's beard. He has had that thing since September and now with the warmer temperatures and his favorite teams out of the NHL playoffs, he decided it was time to shave...

Before

After

And in between...

Here are some pictures from our trip to Washington, DC with Jason's parents. Here we are at Arlington National Cemetary. It's the cemetary where JFK is buried and the Unknown Soldier's memorial is here as well. We had great weather in Washington and saw lots of cherry blossoms on the trees.

Here's a picture of the White House. We couldn't go inside but we were able to tour the grounds and see the gardens.

At the WW II war memorial.

There were so many beautiful flowers there.

There's Abe.

Korean War memorial.

Iwo Jima memorial.

Capitol Hill.


An artistic attempt.


Here's a picture of Jason, working in an airplane. See kids what you can do after you get your PhD! This is Jason testing out his sensor that he has been working on. His research group is going to be flying over Oklahoma City this June, gathering air samples. This is a test run.