Sunday, December 10, 2017

Washington DC


 Rick went to a conference in DC for a week and I got
to come and meet him for the weekend. We didn't sit down
because we wanted to see and do everything we could!
It was especially great because it was Veteran's weekend 
which made it even better to visit all the monuments 
especially the Marine ones :)



 Rick took me to a place where George Washington ate
it was super romantic and definitely cool to be somewhere 
that our President ate at. Of course it was freezing when I got 
there, so that was hard to adjust to especially the wind chill. 
Even Rick was cold!


 we did get to Georgetown to have a cupcake!

 Future Senator right here!




 the best part- riding bikes in the city! too much fun


 the White house was much tinier than I thought







 we stayed at the Mayflower hotel which many presidents have 
stayed at and tons of scandals.





 made you really think about what men and women have
been through, with Vietnam to the Korean and World War 2 
as well as the Holocaust Museum .

and the leaves were beautiful! It was a fun weekend :)

Fall happenings

 4th grade pic
 prek pic
 Kellan's school Halloween party




 Halloween!


 We headed to Staheli farm in St. George
to hang with the cousins!










 then Lucy and Addie came for the weekend
and we carved pumpkins




 It's been so beautiful, we took the kids to the Dolphin habitat
at the Mirage





 and Rick took the kids to bull ridin
 just cute pics of Oak and Rick

 we tried to go to San Diego for a few days before
Thanksgiving but the cousins got the stomach bug so 
we left but managed to go to the beach for a few hours
 and get fish tacos
 and go to Sea World

 Kellan finished his soccer games and had a great season!




 He's constantly is dressing up as a police officer
and is doing awesome at school!! 
Mia won 2nd place in literature at a school writing contest
She gets to put her piece in to a National contest too so that 
awesome! She's a very talented writer!
 this pic probably offends most but when your
dad is a police officer? I think it's actually funny
we missed Kellan's Thanksgiving performance going to Cali
and then we could have actually gone since we came back so
I felt bad but Kellan brought home his costume and did all the songs
and repeated the Preamble to the Constitution .