Wow DC in a week is not enough!

Our lives have been a whirl wind these last couple of weeks, some good, some bad, but I am sure to feel you in as things become more solid, however when I got home I found that we had taken somewhere close to 800 pictures and I am not going to post them all here so I will give  you a quick couple of pictures and tell you all what great kids I have and how thankful I am for the family that we stayed with! I have to say Dan & Jill are the best!!!!

The kids in front of the Washington monument!

bureau of engraving and printing

messing around on the Mall (I think it is time to mow!)

the White House

Too cool for hair and Bacon

we got to see the thinker, we were a little disappointed with the size! but here we are with the firepower pose!

For ASL class we got to go to Gallaudet university! It was really neat for two cool for hair! She wants to be a interpreter when she grows up.

Us in front of the Washington D.C. temple

My DH had a birthday on Vacation and he got to go with the boys to a Washington Nationals Baseball game! They had a blast and the best thing was I didn't have to go! (I am not athletical in any way)

Monkey man massaging feet after the long walk!

The Navy Museum! GO NAVY!!!!

air and space,

well that was just a few of our pics and highlights! I promise I am just about back to normal after a fantastic vacation,

Heather

D.C. days 3-4

when we made it to Ohio we decided to go to the great lakes, We have never been up there and it looked pretty close on the map so we took our picnic up to lake Erie, It was really windy but we had a great time!

like I said in my last post, please help me with my hair! its getting bigger and bigger! we had a great time splashing in the lake at this cute park, It was in this little Victorian area and so much fun!

here are the girls and monkey mans legs in the sign in front of the park, now back into the car,

now to Pennsylvania, the words that describe are: trees and hills, but I would call it the land of roadwork!

here is the back seat, poor packed in little people!

yeah we are almost there! We didn't get a picture of the Virginia sign because we got in after dark and it was really busy and had road work maybe later! but we made it and to everyone who thought we were nuts (Julie) It was so much fun! we saw a lot of things and my kids were great there was very little arguing and fighting lots of laughter and fun! More pictures later tonight or tomorrow!

Our Trip to D.C.

As many of you know My family and I have gone on a little trip across the U.S. for our family vacation this year! so I thought that I would try to blog every night so you all could keep up with us so here it is day 4 and my first blog entry... oh well
Day one!
We got a late start today on our drive and so we ended up eating lunch in Evanston WY. it was like... the best! LOL

Here we are in front of the WY sign. I would just like to add that monkey man must have had some kind of mental lapse in judgement because he can not pose for a photo!

Too cool for hair by  Buffalo in the park where we had our picnic lunch!

I think this is monkey man dead from the fire wagon? When I asked my kids one word that described Wyoming they told me weird rocks. and that about sums it up except for maybe Lincolns Head?

Here we are in front of the Nebraska sign, wow we are moving along quickly now! We stayed in a KOA in Grand Island we got in really late because of our late start! We pulled in after dark and we just planned on throwing out sleeping bags and sleeping under the stars, well, We went up to the door on the office to pick up our map and there were 10000 frogs on the side walk and grass! I about freaked out! wait who am I trying to kid! I totally freaked out, Needless to say my DH pitched the tent and we slept like babies.

Day 2

Here are some pics of monkey man on the great frog hunt the next morning, to bad no one told the frogs about his mad mouse catching skills!

here is more of the hunt!

and here is the proud hunter!

So day 2 we drove again but I must tell ya I asked my kids to describe each state with one word and the word for Nebraska was Stinky, I agree but would perhaps add Froginfested! Iowa is the next state we passed through and the kids said that one was farms. For some reason I don't have a picture of the sign

So here we are in front of a Danish Windmill. My mom (who is the reason I am hair obsessed) and I really enjoyed this, due to the fact that we have a lot of danish blood in our family.

here is Too Cool For Hair posing as Hans Christian Andersen, I think he was missing off of the statue base for some reason.

I think the family that plunders together stays together? LOL Nice pigtails DH!

Here we are coming into Illinois, The road was crazy busy and we had just crossed the Mississippi, so We just got a picture of the sign. the one word for Illinois is more farms

playing at a park for lunch

boom boom firepower!

We stayed at a KOA in South Bend Indiana, where I took a shower and now look at my hair!!!!!!!!!!!!! so this being a hair blog if anyone has any tips for hair with high humidity PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Petting the goat Sonny Donny or Jonny, he didn't answer to any of the names so we don't know what one he is

We took a quick trip to Michigan, (like a block off the freeway) So we could say we went there!

Monkey man is still how can I say this nicely? Weird.....Yep Weird

and check out my mop!

its 11:00 I will work on this more tomorrow