We had the opportunity to be tourist down in southern VA for a couple of days. We saw some of the fun sites that VA has to offer. We went & checked out Williamsburg, Went to see the U.S.S Wisconsin Battle Ship (which is actually right where Romney announced his Vice Presidential candidate less than a week later), Virginia Beach, and Norfolk. What a wonderful time we had! Going to the beach makes me so sad we don't live close by one. So much fun~

Preschool is officially over! We did a mother's group preschool with some of the mother's in our ward. It has been super fun & in some ways I will be sad to say goodbye to it. We went some fun places this year apple picking, cupcake shop, post office, farm, fire station, cherry blossom festival. To end it all we had a little ceremony & it was darling. I am going to have a little girl in kindergarten very, very soon.

Some of our best friends came to visit us! It was a week full of fun & adventure. We jumped on the subway & saw a month's worth of DC/Virgina stuff in 1 week of time. The girls & I popped in & out depending on the time (strollers do not fit on the subway at rush hour!) Anyways, we had a marvelous time. We went to the museums of Natural History, American History, Printing & Engraving, American Indian, and Air & Space. Toured the Capital Building, Botanical Gardens, Saw the White House & all the monuments downtown, Arlington Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Georgetown, Georgetown Cupcakes, Dupont Circle shopping & yummy restaurants. Are you exhausted just from reading! Anyways, here are a couple pictures, but truth be told we were so busy we barely took any pictures!  

 Aubrey's favorite exhibit in the Natural History Museum: The Hope Diamond. The girl loves her diamonds!

 All these are made of chocolate. Yep, you heard right! Chocolate!

Hello all- where have we been you ask! Good question. We have been all around. We went to my parents house in AZ for about 1 1/2 months. What did we do there for all that time!?! We enjoyed the pool almost daily, warm afternoons & evenings outside, went to our favorite Joe's Farm Grill, going on Easter Egg Hunts, museums, midnight Hunger Games at an awesome club like theater ( oh they exist) & of course having fun playing & light saber fighting!

 

We hope everyone had a great valentine's day!

happy holidays

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas & New Year's holiday. Ours was great! Greg's mom got to come & visit. We had fun seeing what DC has to offer for Christmas time!

Yes, the Botanical Gardens again! We loved it so much we thought Greg's mom would love it as well! We went with her & one of my best friends (who happens to live here too!). All the building is done with all natural materials like pine cones & such. So cool.

Mount Vernon

George Washington's house & grounds. So beautiful & so fun!

fun

The semster is over & the Christmas fun has begun in DC.

Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Downtown

National American Indian Museum

National Botanical Gardens: They have the funnest exhibit during Christmas of toy trains . This years theme was fairy houses that were replicates of different famous buildings.