Starting to blog??

Okay I am going to give this a try. My family and Dan's family now have blog sites so I figure I can post things on all three when I have updates.
The beginning of my posts....

We finally got to go to The Cherry Blossom Festival! This is the fourth year we have been here but every year we have had something else going on..visiting family out west, Dan has been on call, and last year we were in Thailand. This time family came to us! Dan's mom is out here for a conference in Arlington so she came to stay with us for a few days before the conference. On Friday we went in to DC to the festival. The National Cherry Blossom Festival annually commemorates the 1912 gift to the city of Washington of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and celebrate the continued close relationship between our two peoples. Then in 1965 3800 more trees were given! It is so pretty. I am going to try posting a few pictures. I wish we could somehow show all the trees there are! Out here Spring is amazing! It is almost like the Fall. Trees start changing colors. Red, pink, white, and then green. The area we live is surrounded by trees the bloom! I love it! I can look out our windows and see them all over. That is one of the things I will miss most when we move back out west (no news right now about us moving back).
On Saturday morning we got to plant some Willow trees along the river that runs through the Manassas Battlefields. They are hoping that this will stop the erosion that is being caused from more and more water running through it from all the building going on around the area. The person in charge of planting the trees told us that Willow trees grow pretty fast so we should be able so see them change in the next few weeks. The battlefields are only about 15min away from our house so it will be neat to watch them grow and always remember that we helped plant them!


Okay there is my first blog. Now I am going to try and post some pictures from our weekend.