Our bestest friends, Austyn and Dustin, came and stayed with us this past weekend. We had so much fun! We loved hanging out and reminiscing about the good ol' days, fung wah, mumufuku, and how Tyson used to not like Dustin. haha. We did so much while they were here. I don't know about them, but we are still recooping after all the walking and sight seeing! Here's what we did:

Friday:
Supreme Court Building
The Capitol
Air and Space Museum
Museum of Natural History
Musueum of Engraving and Printing
Washington Momument
Lincoln Memorial
World War II Memorial

Saturday:
Arlington National Cemetery
Iwo Jima

The Holocaust Museum (don't get there at 4:05pm - we didn't get to see much)

PF Chang's
The Eye and Indiana Jones


Sunday:
The White House
Vietnam Memorial
Korean War Memorial

Striking a pose - don't ask me what I'm doing in this picture, but aren't we cute???

The boys doing their "blood" sign - aren't they cool???

Can't wait to see you guys again - I took this picture without you knowing - it's so dang cute! Thanks for the awesome weekend!

FDR and Jefferson

This week we went and saw the Jefferson Memorial and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. It was such a pretty walk, right along the water. Both memorials were a lot bigger than I thought they would be.

This picture is actually taken at the George Mason Memorial

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

The view from the memorial

*Highlight of the day: When Gina was taking the above picture, a group of Asians, at least 15 of them came by and started gawking at Landon while he was in the stroller. They were smiling, laughing and even taking his picture! Landon was loving it, smiling and laughing right back. We came over and they started doing the same to Lexi and Jace. Lexi and Jace on the other hand were not very animated and didn't think it was as funny as Landon did. But, every one of them wanted a picture with the cute little American kids (and I was in some too). They were there probably a good 10 min. and Gina and I were just laughing the whole time. Pretty funny!

FDR memorial - it's basically a lot of waterfalls the the picture below

D.C. temple

Today after church we went with the sister missionaries, Ee Ming, and Richard to the temple. Sooooo pretty! While the missionaries, Ee Ming, and Richard were inside the visitor's center doing a tour, we walked around the temple grounds with the kids and took pictures.

Fish hook

Are my eyes big?

Lexi and Richard - Richard is really missing his family right now! We miss you too Mcrae!

Richard, Ee Ming, Lexi, Miche, Jace, Tyson

Isn't it gorgeous!!!

The Capitol

Gina and I decided to go tour the Capitol this past week. We knew we had to get tickets for the tour and we had heard that the tickets go pretty fast. So, we got there around 9:45am and we didn't get tickets until 3:00! So we walked around, had lunch, and saw some more sights.

The boys

These two (above and below) were taken outside of "The Castle" - the information center

A statue in the American Art Museum - Lexi thought it was pretty cool

Picaso painting (I think this picture is upside down...can you tell???)

A picture with ALL of us!

Teach em' young

The other day I changed Jace's diaper and stuck the dirty one next to me. Without telling him to do anything with it, he just picked it up and put it in the garbage. One less thing I have to do I guess!




The other day it was raining outside and so we stayed inside and watched movies. I just thought this was a cute picture of the kids sitting and eating their snacks...so calmly. It's very rare that Jace will just sit there and focus on something for very long...it was kind of nice!