Family!

It has been so great to have seen so much family in the last two weeks!

I am so glad My Mom and Sister were able to come visit us! They flew in late friday night to the DC airport so we stayed the night in DC so we could go see some sights on Saturday. I was a lot of fun , But very cold! We weren't very well prepared for it so while we were there we were buying hats and gloves and scarves to keep us warm. We bought tickets for a bus that you could hop on and off thinking it was a fantastic idea, But we ended up waiting for the bus more than anything. It was nice not to have to drive and find places to park though. We saw a lot of things and had a good time anyhow. Sunday we went to the Luray caverns which we really cool and Milt and Shawn were able to come with us too so that was nice. Monday we went shopping at a fun outdoor mall that is a lot like the Gateway in Salt lake for those of you that have been there. Grandma wanted to pick out Christmas presents with the kids so she helped Elli do Build a Bear, or in her case Build a Kitty and Shawn got a really fun Bobble Head Train set. (Thank you Mom! Both the kids really love their gifts!) My sister enjoyed DC so much and there was so much that we didn't get to see and do that we wanted to that we decided to go back Monday night again and stay the night so we would have more time in DC Tuesday before they had to be to the airport. We went to the top of the Washington monument (Very Cool!) and we went to the National Archives building to see the Declaration of independence and other neat stuff that was there! It made us all want to watch "National Treasure". We had a lot of fun together and saw a lot of neat things! I was sad to have them go, I hope you will both come visit me again! 

Thanksgiving!

We had a really great time visiting Tia, John and Toma for Thanksgiving. It was a really long drive, it took about 14 hours to get there and about 10 hours to get home so the drive was crapy, but it was well worth it to be with family. We ate Thanksgiving dinner with some really nice people from Tia and Johns ward and it was really good. The kids enjoyed it too because they had lots of toys to play with. Tia and I went shopping the morning after and had a good time, I really enjoyed going with Her and it was great to be able to do something with out the kids screaming at me for a sec. and on the way home Tia stopped and treated us to some Dunkin' Donuts which I had never had before and the were great! Later that day we all packed up and went shopping followed by Olive Garden, YUMMY! (Thanks guys!) Then on Sat. we visited the Children's museum there, It was awesome! The kids loved it and i think the adults liked it almost as much as the kids it was really fun! I had so much fun with Toma The entire time. She called me mami it was so cute! man she is getting big! I am really grateful for the chance we had to spend time with them. (Thanks again for everything you two!)