Jason's Surgery A Success

I've been so bad about keeping updated with this blog...so sorry. It's been a crazy few months but we seem to be in a fairly good routine now. Hopefully I can get back to regularly updating this. Although, Jason heads back up to Ft. Bragg on the 25th and it looks like he'll be up there for at least a month before he can get transferred into the home based unit to recover at home. Hopefully it won't be too much longer than the month...

Jason's surgery up at Walter Reed was a success and while he's still recouping and has limited abilities to lift and move things he's doing well.

The trip to DC was pretty fun, considering what we were up there for. We ended up with a lot more time to see the sites. Jason was supposed to have his pre-op appointment all day on the Monday, but was done by 11am, so we got to enjoy DC altogether.

The Cornwell's visit the White House...

The boys do a flyover of the National Monument.

Flyover of the Capital....

Jack took over the camera for awhile and these are his compositions...

The boys do a flyover of The While House....

Visiting the new World War II exhibit. It was a very warm afternoon and that water looked so inviting. After this photo Ethan made his way over to it trying to climb in!!

Monday night we headed up to visit my cousin and her family for dinner. This was the boys meeting their second cousin, Lincoln, for the first time. It was so sweet how they all enjoyed each other so much. Lincoln is almost 15 months and was quite the charmer. Both boys LOVED spending time with her.

Christy flew into town Tuesday after Jason's surgery and we expected to leave town Wednesday morning. However, it's the government and it took a lot longer for Jason to be discharged than planned. So we spent Wednesday morning checking out more sites with Grandma Christy.

Here we are at the Lincoln Memorial. Very powerful.

We finally got out of town around 6pm headed for Ft. Bragg, NC. It was a long trip back but we made it.

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