Focht Family Blog

I really liked this picture of Josh walking towards the Capitol…

And a picture of the Capitol building…

We were able to take pictures inside the Capitol but went in very few rooms. Also, our tour guide wouldn’t let us walk around so I don’t have any good pictures from inside.

We walked from the Washington Monument to the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. Nathan laughed that I took a picture of a duck but I loved how this duck was sitting in the falling water from the reflection pool…

A picture of the outside of the Lincoln Memorial…

And of the inside…

A picture of the Korean War Memorial…

A quote from Harry Truman that I liked (I believe this was at the World War II Memorial)…

I had too many pictures of Washington DC to put in only one post so I am going to break it up into three. Our first stop in Washington DC was the White House but you can’t even have a purse with you so I don’t have any pictures. I was a bit disappointed in the tour. You can only take photo ID in with you and the only places you see are rooms that I could google to look at. Oh well…after going back to the car for our purses and camera we headed to the Washington Monument…

Here is a picture of Nathan and the kids waiting for the elevator…

A view of the White House from the Washington Monument…

A view of the Lincoln Memorial from the Washington Monument…

A view of the Jefferson Memorial from the Washington Monument…

A quote from George Washington that I particularly liked…

And the last picture for this post is Samantha and Josh at the Museum of Natural History watching a movie on evolution…

Timmy turned 8 this September. We decided to go to the Hershey RV show and to Washington, DC so we actually celebrated his birthday while at Hershey. First, before we left we had a party at the RV with Aunt Christina. Here is Timmy with his cupcake…

And opening his new Nintendo DSi…

I don’t usually put more than 8 pictures in a post but looking at it this one will have 12. When we got to Hershey Timmy wanted to try making his own candy bar at the new attraction…

First everyone has to get aprons, gloves, and hair coverings on…

After choosing your chocolate (our only choice was milk but dark and white our coming), you choose up to three inclusions…

Next you can choose if you want sprinkles on top of your candy bar…

Confirm your choices…

Next you get to watch your candy bar being made…

When your candy bar comes to an inclusion station that you have chosen the inclusions are deposited into your chocolate shell…

After all of the inclusions have been added it runs through flowing chocolate to cover the bar…

While your candy bar is cooling you get to design your cover….

Here is a picture of all of our candy bar covers…

I really need to go back and fill in some pictures on events that have happened this year. We have spent all of January in Florida. Only 10 days were at Disney this year. However, we found a really great campground in Orlando and I think next Winter we will come down here for 5-6 months and my mom and I are going to try getting a job with Mickey Mouse.

Sunday we leave Florida and head back to Statesboro, GA for another month. Nathan and I will be busy getting ready for CommerceV3’s 2011 User Conference that will be held in Chicago at the end of February. After the conference we will spend a few days with my brother in Atlanta and then spend a few days being tourist in Nashville. We then have an appointment for repairs at Newmar and plan to be back in Pennsylvania by the end of March so that Timmy can have his First Reconciliation with his class.

I will try to spend some time editing pictures this week so I can fill in some blanks on the year.

My dad told me about IKEA a few months ago but I still had never been to one. When we came down to FL, my in-laws came with us for the first few days and we headed to one for the first time. We had so much fun we went back twice more while in Tampa. Once with my mom’s college roommate, Esther, and once with our friends Scott and Nancy that now live in FL during the winter.

During my first visit I just looked. The second visit I bought some plastic bowls for the kids, towels for the bathrooms, and some decor. When my grandfather Henry passed I received two African sculptures that I had put in my kitchen. However they were getting really wet so I bought some cool baskets that looked African to me and put the sculptures and baskets in my bathroom….

A bigger shot that shows my new black towel and the baskets…

One of the other things that I noticed at IKEA that I liked were some pictures of beach scenes that were in black and white. I realized that I had some great pictures from the beach in Pacifica, CA that were just as good so I bought four black frames and started picking out pictures to print out in black and white to decorate the bathroom with. I was going to stick with four pictures of the beach but then I decided to do all four seasons. Winter is a picture of a tree that is outside the Newmar office in Indiana. It has beautiful red berries on it and the branches are covered in ice. Spring is a picture of a flower in Helen, GA that was taken by my mom’s friend, Tom Nash. Summer is a picture of the beach in Pacifica, CA although Nathan is quick to tell me that the picture was taken in the winter. Fall was taken at Twin Lakes RV Park in Cumming, GA. Some of the pictures would probably look better in color but I wanted to stick with the black and white look….

A closer look of the pictures…