Tour of the Capital

We have a friend at church that is in the army but works at the Capital building. He had some free time on Monday and asked us if we wanted our own private tour of the Capital. He is switching positions in a few weeks and wouldn't have the time to give us a tour so we took him up on the offer. I must admit that I felt like I had been hit by a train but I really wanted to go and knew this was a once in a lifetime thing so we went and it was really fun. This was all on Monday and Tuesday morning when I went to the Dr. I have strep.


Here we are with our tour guide Ryan and his wife Melanie and her parents.


This is outside of her office. We didn't get to meet her which was fine with me.



This is the main area of the Capital building. Ryan is explaining all the paintings to us. This is the place where President Reagan laid in state after he passed away.

This is the top of the Capital building. So beautiful!

This is where Obama will be sworn in as our next president. They were just getting started on the construction of his podium. Change is a-comin'!

This is for Papa John!

Melanie and Ashton.

One of the many hallways of the Capital.

We got to go to Senator Sessions office but of course he wasn't in there.

Can you tell my throat is on fire? This is outside of Senator Sessions office. We had a really good time and as bad as I felt I am glad we went. The neatest thing we did was go through an underground tunnel that the Senators take to get from their offices to other parts of the building. Once we entered that area were not allowed to take pictures. We took a small train that took us to the Senate Chamber. This is the room that you see on TV where all the Senators are seating at these wooden desks and discussing very important things. We got to go in and see the room but the Senators had just taken a break. They have been in session this week discussing something about a car bailout.

Batman and Robin, A Little Disco Fever and a Burglar

Happy Halloween! Hope everyone had fun last night. We sure did as Tucker would say. The kids were so excited and really did have a blast. We loaded the kids up in the wagon and went to as many houses as possible. It was pretty chilly but the boys didn't seem to notice.


Batman and Robin.


Robin is ready to go.


Hippie chic, tarot card reader, disco anyone? Check out that scary burglar!


Super Hero's to the rescue!



Scary!

It took Johnny 4 hours to carve these pumpkins!

I really love the lipstick!

Look at all that candy!

Open House

About 3 weeks ago our local fire station was having an open house. My boys are obsessed with big trucks especially fire trucks so they were very excited to go to the fire station. Kasey was sick and Beau was working so we had Mary Raines for the day to make it even more fun for the boys. I was planning on taking the kids but I was getting ready to have about 25 people from church over to my house and just ran out of time. Who saves the day? DADDY!!! Johnny got home from work early and took all 3 kids to the open house. I was a little nervous that he might have some trouble with 3 little wild kids but of course they were great and had a blast!

It Was Fun

It was fun and went by tooo fast. This morning when Tucker woke up he told me he missed Grammy and Pop. Well, so do I. We had a great time and look forward to more visits from Grammy and Pop. We had fun at the truck show and had lots of good food but most of all it was just nice to be together. I feel so blessed to have such good parents.



Tucker and Jacob loved getting horsey rides from Pop.


For some odd reason Jacob loved wearing Grammy's socks. He was obsessed with them. Every night when she would put them on he would pull them off and wear them. I don't know!


We took Grammy and Pop downtown to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which is the place where they make money. It was really neat to see the process of how they print all the money. After that we went to the Air and Space Museum. Along the way there was a carousel and that was the only picture taken the entire day.

The boys were very excited to go to the train station and wait with Grammy and Pop. They were so excited to see all the trains coming and going.

Here comes Grammy and Pop's train.

All Aboard!

See ya later! It was fun!!

Monster Truck Show

Whenever you mention something to Tucker he is not going to forgot it especially if it involves trucks. We have had this planned for about 3 months and how great the weekend of the truck show Mom and Dad are going to be here. I knew they would be thrilled to go, sorta and I couldn't tell Tucker we couldn't go so last Friday night we headed out to Old Dominion Speedway for a little Monster Truck Action. I'm sure you can sense some sarcasm but we actually had a good time and I think Mom and Dad did too!


Wow, look how big. This is Big Tamale.

This was Jacob's expression the entire night. I like the rebel flag in the background.

Just another night with the Grammy at the Monster Truck Show.

Tucker was trying to stand like the driver. The name of this truck was "Brutus". Very fitting.

Tucker sure did have fun with his Pop.

My Boys!



Time for the show!

Wow, look at the "Avenger"! Crazy stuff.

Mom is thinking, we came 19 hours on a train for this!


4 tickets to Monster Truck show: 80.00

Sweatshirt with hood for Dad's cold head: 20.00

Popcorn and Drinks: 8.00

The look on Tucker's face all night: PRICELESS