Our month in Virginia

Just before Christmas our time in San Diego came to an end and we headed back to DC/VA for a month. The first week was full of classes for Peter and a conference for me. Almost every night that week we met up with friends to catch up since it's been so long since we've seen everyone. Here's a picture of the sunset one morning of the way to work and pictures of a "Minute to Win It" game our friends Chris and Leigh threw.

Then the following two weeks were spent having fun with Peter's family. All the siblings except for Tommy and his family were in town. It was really fun to be able to spend time with everyone. We spent most of our time playing games, eating, watching movies and football, and playing basketball. We went to the temple one day to see the lights and another day to go inside. We even spent a day in the city viewing some of the museums and showing things off to Kathy. We attempted to go ice skating, but the wait was too long. So we headed over to a friends for pizza and Settlers of Catan. I'm not sure if introducing that game to the Bell family was a good

choice or not. We spent the next several days playing all the time and there were many boisterous games. New Years Eve was spent a First Night in Alexandria

enjoying musical performances throughout the night and ringing in the New Year with a firework show at the Masonic Temple.

The last week in VA was spent saying goodbye to family and some more work and school. We are now in San Antonio for the next 2 1/2 months for Peter's surgery rotation. The weather was about 70 degrees when we arrived, so I think we're going to enjoy our time her for the winter.