a little late thanksgiving

so I found some pictures of thanksgiving, turns out they did not all get deleted! enjoy

we love eachother



Ryan in his chair
John battling the pilars
awww he is cute
the boys
our friends John and Jenna
Ryan, John, Taylor
The D.C. temple
are other friends Scott and Maribeth
us, love this temple

the end. -whit

Ryan at the FBI Acadamy

So, yes this is my second post today but I just wanted a post about my adorable husband because I am so proud of him for working so hard at the intership of his dreams, really he is obsessed with it. His intenship ends tomorrow and then we will being heading home after the Thanksgiving holidays so here is a little of what he has been doing the last few months. His internship is at the FBI Acadamy in Quantico, VA he working in the International Training and Assistance Unit (i hope I got that right I always mess it up) anyways they plan and do all these training things for forgein country's. It's like mini crash coarses of what agents training is but for interational federal empolyees/police. For example for two weeks Ryan was with a group of police from all over Centeral America and every day got to sit in on awsome classes about gangs, street violence, how to tactically enter a room, crimes on children and terrorist crimes scense and also got to do hands on stuff with them, like role playing with guns with paint ball bullets. So pretty much he has loved his internship and I dont really understand alot of the stuff he talks about, but it sounds really cool and he is so happy and loves it :) He has also had to do crapy photo copying intern work but he says it's all worth it. So yes pretty much my husband is awsome awsome! OH! and last Friday he got to give me a tour of the Acadamy it was so cool to see and to see where he has been working and meet all the nice people he works with! Here are some pics for the tour!

Ryan in the J Edger Hover reading room at the Acadamy
Me at Hogan's Alley, this was my favorite part of the tour, Hogan's Alley is a FAKE town of several streets buildings like post office, motel, resturats, apartments, but none of it is real! it is used for training, they hiring actors to come in and play the bad guys and they role play, its practice for the agents, so cool

One of the Hogan Alley streets, loooks like there is some role play going on

At the Acadany there is the coolest memorial for 9/11 and this is part of it there is a piece of Flight #93, the Pentagon and the World Trade Center

This is the memorial, the two black thins are obviously the World Trade Centers then if you look close Pennsylvania is printed on them, and then the gray bottom is shaped like the Pentagon, then below that is the picture from above.

BENDA in the VA

So this was like two weeks ago, I have been slacking on my blogging, but Ben and Cynda can to see us for the weekend!!! It was so good to hang out with friends and see little Cyn, oh how I have missed her!

Arrlington Cemetery
Me and Cyn

Me and Ry and Washington D.C.

Me and Cyn at the butterfly exhibit, so cool!

Ryan and the Saber Tooth Tiger, at the Museum of Natural History, coolest museum ever!

Ben and Cyn looking up the Washington, I think this picture is so funny for some reason

yay! for D.C.

at mt. vernon

I have missed my bestie so this was a great weekend!!! They got here late Firday night so we stayed up and chated the Saturday went to Mt. Vernon in the morning it was so pretty the trees were changing colors and falling, i loved it. Then we went for a little lunch and Noodles and Co., yummy my fav! The ventured into D.C. and went to the Museum of Natural history! It was so freaking cool, I want to go back! there was so much to see we did not even get to half of it the Dinosaurs were my favorite! And so was the butterfly exhibit me and cyn went to. The museum was so cool we stayed till close and then went and walked arould to all of the D.C. memorials, which was so cool to see at night all lite up! After the long day we went home order some pizza and played Rook for way to long, i love that game. Sunday after church and some dinner we heading back up to D.C. and went to Arrlington National Cemetary, it was a beautiful day and so neat I had never been there. I could not belive how many people are buired there it seems like the cermetary keeps going and going. It made me so tahnkful for all the men that serve our country and that have died defending our freedom, I love America and I am so thankful to be an American! Thanks so much for the visit Ben and CYnda and cant wait till next week to see you at your place!!!

Happy Halloween!

I hope you all have a great Halloween, and i hope everyone gets to dress up and eats lots of candy!!! Here are the pumpkins we carved two nights ago, we love them.

our scary pumpkins
just putting mine on my head
Ryan's
Whittney's

sitting outside our apt. for everyone to see

Vistors!!!!

Outside the Lincoln
Ryan and his mommy
Ry and I
Grandma, Debbie and Ry
The Potomac River
The mansion
Us girls

Our Vistors

Finally! Ryan's mother Debbie and Grandmother came to see us in VA! It was so great to be with family, see some sites and eat great food! I wish they never had to leave! We had loads of fun we to Mt. Vernon (George Washington's estate) it was beautiful and we learned a lot, like did you know the he had no children of his own, yep its true just children from Martha's first marriage but he did have 38 dogs! We also went to the International Spy museum in D.C. it was so freaking cool lets just say I know what I want to do for a career now! We also ventured though the rain and saw some of the D.C. sights! Moral of the story, we LOVE visitors so come see us!!