Spring Break

So, there are some benefits to being students again. Not only do the kids get a spring break but so does Andy - 2 weeks of break for him. It was heaven having him around and home for dinner. We spent our first week getting some things done around the house and then spent the last week in D.C. We had so much fun staying with Andy's brother and family. It was fun seeing the kids together. They all had so much fun!

We enjoyed spending a lot of time in D.C. Jim (Andy's brother) was so nice to drive us around to the memorials one night. They are so far apart from each other we realized our kids would never be able to walk it all so he dropped us off at one and picked us up when we were ready and took us to the next. It was so nice of him. We loved it!
We've spent a lot of time in this car over the past year. This is what our road trips look like. Lucas who could care less about T.V. spends his time talking to us (yes, it gets tiring) and eventually it gets quiet and I look and this is how we find him. He wore himself out talking!! So, it takes a good 6 hours to get him to sleep and no fail no sooner than he drifts off to sleep someone has to go to the bathroom which means it'll be another 6 hours before he is asleep again!!
Lucy and Ethan do their own thing in the back. They are perfectly happy watching movies all day long!!
And Jane is so sweet. She was a good little traveler and was thrilled when any attention was given to her!
We loved visiting a lot of the museums in D.C. Here is Ethan in the natural history museum.
We loved going to the air and space museum near the airport. We especially loved seeing the spaceship. It was HUGE!!!
Here are Ethan and Lucas standing under the spaceship.
We also had fun visiting Jon and Monica and kids.
Here are all of our kids together
We had a lot of good weather but a few rainy days too. Ethan and Katie had lots of fun together while we were there. Wish we lived closer to cousins!
Here are Andy and Jim and kids in the Air and Space Museum standing by the Pioneer 10 which was the first satellite to make direct observations of Jupiter and their dad helped design it!! Cool huh?!?!?!

What does that tell you when the car Andy had growing up is found in the museum!! Hmmmm.....are we really that old?!?!?!
Katie, Ethan, Lucy, and Marc - All of the kids had so much fun playing

We got to see the world war 2 memorial which we had never seen before. It was beautiful with lots of fountains everywhere.

Andy and Lucas

Lucas, Andy, and Ethan

Lucy and Katie

Lucas looking at the elephant and the zoo

Here are my crazy cute boys!!

The kids loved riding the metro into the city.

We did lots and lots and lots of walking

Lucy and Lucas

Here are the kids in the Art Museum. Lucy and I had fun walking around looking at the art while Andy hung out with the rest of the kiddos. Lucy LOVED the art museum.

Lucas thinks he's so cool....and he is!

We had tons of fun. Thanks to Jim and Kristina for letting us stay with them!!