April 2018

Playing at a local park with Jack

Chilly Easter egg hunt

Happy Easter

Beginning our adventure

Enjoying the museum with Blaise and Simeon

Great day with Reuben's family

Bike tour of monuments

Roosevelt Memorial

Washington Monument

Lincoln Memorial

Martin Luther King Jr Memorial

Pandas!

Komodo dragon

Great day at the zoo

Uncle Martin and Aunt Laura

 -We had a spring break trip!  We spent Easter weekend at Mike and Colleen's house. The cousins played non-stop- our kids especially liked the air hockey table and trampoline. We did the sunrise Easter service at a local park- freezing. Then we did an egg hunt, Aunt Colleen had a lot of candy filled eggs! After that we went to the regular Easter morning service.  We all enjoyed our time with family.
-On Monday we drove to Reston,VA and stayed at Stacy's Uncle Martin's house.  Martin and Laura were amazing hosts.  So friendly and Martin cooked/baked continuously for us.
-On Tuesday we took the subway into the city, very interesting for the kids.  We met up with Reuben's family for a day of sightseeing.  We saw the Air and Space Museum and the Natural History Museum.  The museums were packed! Very challenging to keep track of 12 kids.  We lost Mattias for a little while, but Reuben had written his cell number on Mattias' arm so a lady called when she found him.  The funny/not funny? part is, no one knew Mattias was even missing. We ate lunch from food trucks- a first for our family. We also walked over to the capitol building for some pictures.  So glad we could spend the day with Reuben's family!
-On Wednesday we left the littles with Martin and Laura and we headed back to DC with the older 3.  We went on a bike tour of the monuments- we highly recommend it! Way better than walking around DC in the heat for miles on end. We also walked thru the American Indian Museum.  Stephen and Lexi went to a park and had a fun day as well. Martin discovered that Lexi will do anything for a dollar. :)
-On Thursday we drove to the National Zoo.  Lexi was so excited to see pandas! The lions and komodo dragon were also big hits.  For dinner we went to the Lotte store with Martin and Laura for some Korean food.
-On Friday we packed up and drove home, grateful for a fun spring break trip together.