We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

We woke up bright and early to drive to the nation's capitol!  Thanks to Google and my friend from the area (you'll hear about her later), we mapped out what we wanted to see and set off for a long day of walking and seeing the sights.  Oma and Opa thankfully offered to keep Ian and Maddy or else I don't think we would have lasted as long.  We drove in and parked at Union Station and walked over to the capitol building.  On our way there we passed the senate house and saw a car with Nez Perce County plates in Idaho!  That is the county that both Scott and I were born in and grew up in!  We thought that was pretty cool!   I love this picture of Rylan looking up, can he change our country?!?! Maybe when he is running for senate we can use this picture! We made the trek towards all the monuments,  we could see the Washington monument from far away.  They were doing construction on it so we couldn't go up into it.  T...

  For spring break this year we decided to actually go somewhere!  M'Lynn has been studying U.S. History this year (and Scott and I have had the privilege of helping her study) and Scott has always been a lover of history so we decided to go to visit Oma and Opa who live in Richmond, Virginia. They are only an hour away from some of the old colonies like Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown.  Plus they are only 2 hours away from Washington D.C.! Plus we kind of like their company as well! Oma loves to play and here she is "talking on the phone" with Ian.    Opa is sharing his nice remote control off-road truck!  He even let Rylan take it home with him!  Oma has some famous songs that she always sang with Scott was little, that she taught the kids while we were there, including this one: Love his endearing face in this picture!   Colonial Williamsburg was quite an adventure, everything was from the 1700's li...