The DC megapost: Thursday evening

Wow. Where to even BEGIN?? The past 6 days have blown by and we have definitely made some lifelong memories. I guess I should start out our adventures by just saying how much we LOVE the Perry's. We met in our old Boise ward a few years ago. Em and I hit it off right away serving the Beehives in our ward and we soon became fast friends. Who would have guessed that a couple of years later we would BOTH be moving away from Boise. Friendship knows no distance and this is a very rare and special thing to find...especially when both wives and husbands get along SO well. Emily is a dear and treasured to friend to me. She is such a light in my life and I am so grateful to both Tom and Emily for rolling out the red carpet for us. They made us feel so welcome and we had an INCREDIBLE time. The friendship we share is unfathomable. ☺

I think I'm going to have to break up this post as not to completely OVERWHELM myself. I took about 500 pictures so, I have some major condensing to do!

We flew in on Thursday evening. I had a sneaky suspicion that Em would so something silly at the baggage claim. Sure enough, everyone was all lined up with some beautiful Gem State signs for us! LOVED it!!!

Then we jumped into the car and were off to see the DC temple. We found ourselves in some SERIOUS traffic which was a bit of a shocker to this small town gal. Once we got there though, we knew it was TOTALLY worth it!

After the temple we grabbed dinner and headed back to The "Perry Estate." Homes over in DC are all HUGE and BRICK and GORGEOUS! Em had a beautiful basket of all sorts of treats and goods for us laying our bed. She is the cutest ever!!