Drostan's First Birthday

It seems impossible but last Saturday, May 16, Drostan turned 1 year old. It has been so much fun to watch him grow up and play and learn. Drostan is one of the funnest, happiest, and definitely cutest babies ever. So to celebrate his birthday Dad took Drostan out to the woods. Our ward was having the Father and Son campout so we went and gave mom the night off.

Drostan chilling out watching the fire. He is tired so he looks a little zoned out. but check out his cool boots from Gma &Gpa Madsen.

Gma & Gpa Ball sent Drostan's present and lucky for us it arrived on his B-day. Drostan hit one of the keys on his musical caterpillar as he was opening it and he wouldn't even finish unwrapping it he just wanted to play with it as it was.

Everybody thinks that Drostan does not like the phone because he will never talk on it when we want him to, but he loves to play with the phone when no one is on it. So mom and dad got him his own along with some chew toys which happen to be some of his favorite toys.

Ain't my wife great. She made this teddy bear cake all by herself.

Drostan only needed a little help blowing out the candle. He needed a lot of help to keep from tearing the cake to pieces before we could take a picture.

To be continued..............

Spring has sprung

Spring has officially sprung in DC, and with it all the tourists. A few weekends ago we decided to go and see the cherry blossoms. Drostan has "sort of" been there before but we thought he might like to get out and walk around. Generally DC traffic is not so bad during the weekend, but there was a hockey game and the Cherry Blossom festival, so it was a little crazier than usual. We finally made it to the Tidal Basin and it was worth it. The trees were in full bloom and everytime there was a breeze it looked like it was snowing because of all the blossoms in the air.

Drostan played it cool. He was just chillin until....

............we let him out of the stroller. He had a great time. He is so fearless, he was running after other little kids (mostly 2-5 yr olds) and walking up to complete strangers. He can be quite the charmer when he has an audience.

He especially liked being in the tree. He thought that was the greatest thing.

A night on the town

Living in the DC Metro area is great, there is always something to do. Some of those things are free (Smithsonian, monuments, animal rights protests) and some of those things are not (a night at the Kennedy Center, football games, and the circus). We have tried to do mostly the free stuff, owing to our status as poor college students (again). However, while Randy and Kris were visiting we decided to do both. We heard on the radio that the circus was coming to town, oddly enough it was the same time as Randy and Kris (hmmm). Neither Cassie nor I could remember the last time we had been to the circus. So we took the Metro down to DC, and amazingly no one got lost. We popped up right in front of a show. PETA or some other group had come to protest (you can never have enough protests in DC). People were screaming and chanting for Barnum and Bailey (who I think are dead) to "go home" they also threw in there animal molesters, animal abusers, and just to cover all their bases child molesters. It was quite entertaining, I think there were more freaks outside the "big tent" than inside. Oh and the circus was fun too. They had all the usual accoutrements, clowns and acrobats, and animals. The stadium was so dark that a lot of the pictures didn't turn out but some of them are posted below.


The elephants were probably the coolest part of the animal segment. These might even be termed "big elephants" by my dad. Its amazing what they can do.

But for me the coolest part of the circus was these guys.

I gotta get me one of those.