National Air and Space museum!

Here is our trip to the Air and Space museum. We didn't get to spend as much time there as we wanted, by the time we got there everyone was pretty tired. Hubby and I have decided next time it will be our first stop!


Yes I was being goofy and getting the girls next to things just to take their pictures :)
I love Caitlynn's smile in this picture!







Oh and now on to the space exhibits
The kids LOVED it!! I just wish it hadn't been our last stop before we headed home.



It's the moon!!!
And here was the very last thing we saw :).
I can't wait to go back again!!!! Next post I have some pictures of the mall and then our trip to D.C. will be done!

Natural History Museum, Early life to the Ice age

Ok here we go, This was the last of the natural history museum for us.My girls really really love dinosaurs
Nathaniel is ALL about fossils and rocks
Giant dinosaur!

and a quick trip upstairs so the kids could see the hope diamond


Then back to the dinos!

And now on to the ice age (those are early horses)
and a quick jump on a big rock :).




And that was it. After we saw this display we had lunch and headed over to the Air and space museum!

Natural History Museum, Sant Ocean Hall!!!

And here is the ocean hall! I didn't get quite as many photos of this area but the kids really loved it!
All of the kids were awed by the size of the whale


They really loved the Megalodon mouth

There where a ton of exhibits I just didn't get pictures of including a really awesome fish tank!
Next will be dinosaur fossils!!!!

Natural History Museum, Hall of mammels!

Ok I just have to many pictures! I'm going to have to split up the museums into seperate posts... darn these kids and their cute pictures!
walking into the hall of mammels

Can't you just hear them now "ohhhhh look!!"Brianna remembered where her favorite animal was!

The giraffe!Alex was saying "Look at it's tongue it's black!"

Caitlynn seeing the giraffe
A Giraffe drinking, and then Brianna...
Trying to do it also
"ohhhhh look!"Caitlynn is ready to move on


a vampire bat

hehehehe


It was so much fun! The Sant ocean hall is next!!!

conversations from the dinner table..

Our table is fun, we have a lot of thoughtful, and serious discussions there. Like last night, The kids recently got to watch Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa. (Which they LOVED) The parts of it that I saw where very cute, but for most of it I was busy doing mom things (cleaning, doing dishes etc. etc.) Ok and back to the table now. During the movie some one says they put something together with "Grit, spit, and a WHOLE lot of Duct tape". This phrase has since been repeated ad-nauseum. Well yesterday the boys had some questions about it. Nathaniel asked what grit was.. Easy in that context it would be hard work. Everyone knew what spit was.. Then they asked what is duct tape? To which we replied really strong silver tape.. Then they asked.. Well what is duct tape made of?.. So Steve being silly says "well ducks of course" they thought about that for a few seconds and the Alex blurts out "Yeah rare ducks, silver ones!!!"
Yeah we are all about the serious discussions here!!!
(Next post will be about the museums I PROMISE!)

Our trip to DC.. The metro!!!

Yes the metro, a fun 30 min train ride to the museums. And my crazy kids fooling around :)




I am working on more posts but I took about 260 photos on our trip :). We had sooo much fun!