Harpers Ferry West Virginia

Harpers Ferry West Virginia

Harpers Ferry is a Key little town in American History

• This little town was the first successful application of interchangeable manufacture
• It saw the arrival of the first successful American railroad
• John Brown lead an attack on slavery here
• Harpers Ferry was home to the largest Federal troop surrender during the Civil War
• This was also one of the earliest integrated schools in the United States educating former slaves.

Harpers Ferry as a deep and rich history, a visit to the tiny town feels like a step back in time 150 years ago!

We toured the little town and our hearts yearned to go back to small town America where you can live in peace, where neighbors care about each other and where there's no such things as manners, the motto is simply, love on another.

We realize now how amazingly blessed we were to live in the beautiful Heber valley surrounded by the most loving, wonderful people in all of America. Harpers Ferry reminded us of the great things about America....namely....small town life!

Enjoy this little video clip of our tour of the beautiful town of Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. If you want to learn some of America's greatest history, do a search of Harpers Ferry on the internet and you will learn a lot about American History! Enjoy!

Air and Space Museum

Air and Space Museum in Dulles, VA

Me and the kids in front of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

Okay so you've all probably heard me whine about Virginia, the snobby uptight people that think:

• If you don't use a coaster the cup will burn a hole in the table
• It's rude to ask for a drink of water at someone's house??? (Yep you read right, this was actually something a Virginiaite told Kenzi) Go figure, psychos!
• Take your shoes off
• My carpet is worth more than your life, or anyone alive for that matter
• Everyone drives a mercedes, a traffic jam looks like a mercedes dealership
• Even if you live in a studio apartment you waste your money on a car with a hood ornament cause it's all about the money out here. People are worthless, money is everything. It's scary I tell ya.
  
• A spot in their beautiful house or car means certain death....
  
• blah, blah, blah right?

First thing I would like to say, I'm SOOOOO glad I don't have any maners!!!!

**Atleast by Virginia standards ha ha.



Well how about I tell you some of the positive things about living in Virginia:

• All the American history sites
• Visiting D.C.
  
• The monuments
• FREE museums
• Gorgeous country when you get outside the city
• STICKY FINGERS!!!!! YUM!
• Dave's school is 2 blocks from the White House
• Trees, Trees and more Trees
• You can be camping in the mountains or chillin on the beach within a 2 hour drive!

Okay okay, they aren't really mountains by Utah standards, how bout, big tall hills ;-D

Today we actually went to Harpers Ferry where the civil war started but I am behind in my posts, ha ha. I can't be too perfect you know or I'd be translated so I've got to have some flaws. Okay I guess I can't fool you all, you already know I'm about as far from perfect as it gets so you'll all just have to deal I guess.

Here Kenzi and Camdyn are standing in front of Space Shuttle Enterprise.

The thing was monstrous, this picture does not do it justice at all. It was amazing to stand there looking up at it. It's an experience I'll never forget.

Living in Northern Virginia has it's definite perks, experiences like these are amazing. As much difficulty as we have had being accepted by the traditionalist Virginians who can't stand that I am so non-traditional...homeschooling, vegan, alternative medicine etc... We are truly enjoying the experiences where we don't have to interact with the natives, ha ha.


Me and the kids, well obviously :-). I have no idea what kind of fighter plane that is behind us, so I'll just be Vanna White. See how pretty this plane is.....

Okay, so anyway, we were having a great time seeing all the fighter planes in this area.







Here is a photo of the Concord!!

You cannot even imagine the sheer SIZE of this plane. It is amazing!

I can't believe they could fit this thing into a building. It is such a sleek, awesome looking plane. It would be awesome to fly in, especially since it's FAST!!

The BLACKBIRD!!

This plane is AWESOME!!
It flew from Los Angelas to D.C. in 1 hour 20 minutes!!!
It flies at 2200 miles per hour!

This thing was LONG and very cool looking. I think I need to buy myself one of these so I can fly out to visit y'all and I can be there in under an hour. See we could fly out on the weekends and be home for Dave to go to school on Monday nights. Hey, even better we can all pool our money together and buy one.

Okay, okay, in my dreams but it would be nice.

Okay, in this video you will see a picture of a ride, a red space ship looking thing. It gave an interactive tour of the international space station, so cool! The kids hated it. It didn't even move that much, the pansies. We can't take them anywhere.

Kenzi's Birthday Party, 9 years Old!

Kenzi is 9 years old!

Okay, before you start the crazy judgements:

I humbly admit that my darling daughter looks like a homeless child. I wanted to do her hair and make her look like a pretty little princess for her birthday, but alas I was in the kitchen ALL DAY making the cupcakes, cake and two different kinds of frosting she ordered.

As soon as the cake and cupcakes were done kids were already coming and I was painfully aware that she was going to just have to look like the scrounge muffin she loves to be! SIGH!

I must admit, the endless hours I have spent combing out her hair while she wails at the top of her lungs have been rough. I guess today I might as well let it go and spare us both the pain, UGH.

My dream of having a daughter so I could do her hair and make her pretty are completely lost on Kenzi, if she had it her way she'd never take a bath, never have her hair done and would wear the same dirty sweats with holes in them EVERYDAY! What's a mother to do :-(

I made chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and chocolate ganache. Then I made a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and sprinkles. If you want to know how to make whole wheat chocolate cake eggless and delicious, let me know, this cake was a HIT!

Here my little scrounge muffin is blowing out her candles.

She had more boys at her party than girls, if this is any indication of the future, I want nothing to do with it :-)



She is staying 9 forever!











Camdyn ate half the cake, literally, no exaggeration. That must be why he is in the 90th percentile in weight for a 6 year old.




Yes, we eat healthy but this kid can pack in the food like a 300 pound football player. I fear he may end up looking like one. We may end up living in a cardboard box just so we can feed Cam.







Whoever said vegan kids are scrawny will have to eat their words when they take a look at Cam. He's anything but scrawny.










The party crowd. It was a small party but they had fun. I wasn't able to take a picture of the HUGE birthday cake they drew in the cul-de-sac with sidewalk chalk because it washed away in the rain. All in all the party was fun, Kenzi loved it and well, mommy just let her have an enjoyable day in her old, grubby clothes and 'clean' but messy hair.