HALLOWEEN

Man I am behind on Blogging! Here are some Halloween pics. The boys were each Link from the Zelda video games. My mom made their costumes. Noah was very specific in what he wanted and probably drove my mom crazy!!! They looked great though. Hannah was Hannah Montana. Not too far of a stretch for her, all she does is sing and dance around here! We went to a party at my dads and did some trick or treating. It seems like Halloween came and went way too fast this year!

Star Wars LIVE in Concert

I took my 3 boys (Noah, Jonah and.........RON) to see Star Wars in concert when we got home from DC. It was actually quite cool! We are a home of Star Wars nerds so it was the perfect show for us. Actually I emailed Ron the concert info ( that is how we communicate, since we never see each other) and he bought the tickets. I was kind of surprised cuz they were expensive, but really, how could we resist? They had this huge screen showing movie clips and an orchestra playing the theme songs. Anthony Daniels - AKA C3P0 (in all 6 movies)- was the host. That was pretty cool. There were lasers and characters and costumes and props and all kinds of weirdies (not us, of course!) there. We bought the boys each a little light saber key chain. In true Jonah fashion, he broke his right after the show before we even made it to the car. UGH.

C3PO

DC/PA Trip

Ron's mom works for IRS. For the last 11 or so years she has been sent out to different IRS locations to work for a couple of months at a time. We have visited her in the past in places like Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati and DC. This is her last year since she is retiring so we decided to take the kids out and visit her. Noah and Jonah have each been a couple of times, but this was Hannah's first time in DC and first time on a plane. So here is our 10 day vacation. I took like 700 pictures but tried to pick out the best ones to blog.

She really did have fun. I don't know what this face is..... I think she gets sick of mom taking pictures of her.


Iwo Jima Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

On the steps of the Jefferson Memorial looking at the Washington Monument. I love this picture!!!

Natural History Museum

Hannah with the White House in her hand.

Vietnam Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

Korean War Memorial
National Zoo. Its free!!!

Panda Bears! The kids love Pandas

Playing in the Metro Station

Forever long Escalator!

Independence Hall where the Declaration was signed. So Hannah got car sick on the drive up to Philadelphia and threw up in the car. We found a 7-11 and Ron bought her a shirt to wear. It says something about opening a can of Whoop A** on the front so all the pictures from this day have her lovely message there for all to see. Nice. You will notice after a while she started hiding behind her brothers cuz she was embarrassed! So was I!

Liberty Bell

Hannah hiding behind Jonah

Ron and Troy got Philly Cheese steak sandwich's in Philly!

Ford's Theater where Lincoln was shot.

Fords Theater

After Lincoln was shot he was taken across the street to this house where he died.

Back to the Natural History Museum. We went twice.

They had every kind of animal. It was pretty cool!

American History Museum

C3PO

Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers from the Wizard of Oz

White House

Hard Rock Cafe DC

Welcome to Intercourse, PA!

Amish at the Bank! Weird!

Kennedy Graves. After explaing to Hannah that Pres. Lincoln was shot and killed and Pres. Kennedy was shot and killed she asked me why everyone wants to kill the President. She was very concerned. I was trying to teach her the history, but for her it was a little disturbing.

Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown soldiers

National Archives

US Capitol Building

Inside the Rotunda

Brigham Young statue. Each state has 2 satutes to represent them. The other was Filo T Farnsworth. Who is that you say??? He invented the TV.

So that was our trip. It was LOTS of walking. The kids were bored after a while, but I hope they learned something. :)