Alright, so the site was not necessarily slow.  The problem is that on EC2 micro instances a bot can take down my website.  Still an issue but one way someone recommend to help the issue is to use the super cache plugin which will make html files and doesn’t spike your CPU on the instance.  Here are the stats:

Before adding super cache:

ryanandmelissaalberts.com 97.41 KB 0.71 seconds 0.01 seconds

After enabling super cache:

ryanandmelissaalberts.com 97.43 KB 0.41 seconds 0 seconds ryanandmelissaalberts.com 97.43 KB 0.34 seconds 0 seconds