The Capitol of the United States of America

On Saturday, we toured the Capitol building. A friend of Jake's from USU has an internship with Senator Hatch and pulled a few strings to give us a personal tour. Michelle, Reed, Christy, and the kids joined Jake and I on the tour. It was really fun. Isaac had a lot of really cool facts to share.

 After our tour, Jake, Isaac, and I went to We The Pizza, a restaurant opened up by a guy who was on America's Top Chef. Super. Good. I highly recommend it. We talked for a couple of hours then caught the metro back home. What a fun day!!

This is the stop we got off at. It is on the same line as us and not too far away. 

Capitol

Freedom statue on top of the dome of the capitol building

Freedom Statue

Looking at the ceiling of the dome from the inside. The dome is 180 feet from ceiling to floor. 

A close up on the mural in the center of the dome. This picture takes up 1400 sq feet.  It features George Washington on a throne with justice and fame on either side of him. There are 13 virgins surrounding him representing each of the first 13 states. Around them are 5 pictures of attributes. I can't remember them all, but there is liberty, strength, science, etc..

All the around the top of the wall is a mural showing different events in the history of the USA. It is 8 ft tall, though it doesn't look like it. This section shows the building of railroads.

This section shows Cortez. I am not sure why this is on the wall of the Capitol building..

Each state gets to choose two important people from their state to have a statue made of them and put into the Capitol Building. Utah chose Brigham Young as one of its statues. I think the requirements to have a statue made of you is you have to be dead for 21 years.

This is the statue room. Statues of the representatives from each state surround the room.

Me, Jake, and Brigham Young.

This is the Supreme Court building.

Date Night

Tonight was date night! It was probably one of the funnest nights EVER!

I picked up Jake from work at 6:45, then we came home and made pizza together for dinner. We ate it all up before I had a chance to take a picture of it. This is all that is left..

After we made pizza, we made a FORT in the front room! I put Jake in charge of the construction...he was SO excited. We pulled chairs together and draped blankets over everything. Jake "laid the carpet" on the inside, while I pilled the pillows.

(NOTE: the 'carpet' was just another blanket.)

I made some popcorn while Jake got the laptop set up with a movie. We crawled inside and watched "Strange Brew".

We slept in our fort.

THE FORT

Inside our fort!

We were sleeping...

"laying carpet"

The Entrance

catching up to speed

It has been a while since I last posted..not much has happened. 


Jake has been jumping clients this week, which he is really liking. He has helped at the McLean office, a client in Fairfax, VA, and, for the past couple of days, he has been at a client site here in Arlington. He really enjoys moving around and being with different teams and in different places. He is gaining confidence and skill in the tasks they assign him. Because this last site is so close, I have been dropping him off at work. It is extremely nice because I get to have the car all day. 


I have been bored, as usual, entertaining myself with homework, pacing the house, straightening things, and making Thank You cards. 


For Family Home Evening this week, we went through our finances trying to figure out where we stand. It was fun and very helpful. We hope to continue to overview our financial standings monthly.


I think we are all up to date now.