My recent trip to New Zealand was amazing! I highly recommend New Zealand for it’s cozy B&Bs, friendly people, tasty food, amazing scenery and incredible adventure sports! Certainly a change from my normal long hours at the computer. 🙂
I keep getting requests for pictures, but there’s been a lot to catch up on this week before I could look at my own pictures. I finally was able to start sorting though the tons of images and picked out the “best of the best” scenery shots to make a coffee table book. Here they are!
Beautiful little Audrey is 4 days older than Lincoln and made her modeling debut at 9 weeks. Isn’t she a doll?? I think she likes the camera. 🙂 And check out the pictures of her “talking” to her dad in the slideshow. I’ve never heard a baby have a conversation before, it’s so cute! I wonder what she was telling him…
I’ve been out of the county for a few weeks and these were taken the day before I left. Travel pictures to come soon!
While millions watched the historic events downtown on the mall, I was privileged to be part of a much smaller ceremony at Andrews AFB sending President Bush off to Texas. The ceremony was private so as not to take away from Obama’s day, but very sweet and sentimental all the same. While I certainly didn’t agree with many of President Bush’s big ticket items when it came to his domestic agenda, as someone who was working on the Hill on September 11th and who lives down the street from the Pentagon, I’m very grateful that his dedication to protecting us did allow me to eventually return to life as usual after those intense days. While he enjoyed some of the highest and lowest approval ratings, I believe history will be more kind and agree with him that he accomplished his goals and kept us safe.
It was difficult to get any pictures worth posting of the speeches (the Cheney’s were there as well); they were on the edge of the hanger and back lit, plus there were tall people in front of me. But here are a few shots of George and Laura leaving on “Special Air Mission 28000”. The plane is only called Air Force One when the current President is aboard.
This plane is incredibly large, and so clean and shiny, as you’d expect from the military. The Bushes were joined on the flight by daughter Barbara, Bush 41 and Barbara, plus many of the President’s top advisors who were going home to Texas. This is just as they were pulling away.
Special Air Mission 28000.
After takeoff they came back around for a finally goodbye. A patriotic and awe-inspiring moment for sure. This also the last flight for the pilot who is retiring.
And one of the best parts of the day was – we were in a hanger the whole time and not out in the freezing cold and wind for all those hours like we expected to be! 🙂
More pictures of Alayne and Matt from our fun shoot in Jacksonville a few weeks ago on a beautiful, warm afternoon. (Boy does that sound good now! :)) They are such an elegant couple that it was hard to pick only a few favorites. So, here’s a sampling. Enjoy!
