Weekend in Pictures

We had such a great weekend!!! It's a little out of order (why is it that you have to put your pics up in reverse order? Am I doing something wrong?) Anyway, these first pics are actually from Monday! Gary had his first 3-day weekend, so we spent Monday downtown! We visited one of the Smithsonian Museums, the Air and Space Museum!

Alex got to "fly a plane" - he LOVED this!

Alex REALLY enjoyed all the "big space stuff", rockets, planes, huge engines, planets, stars, things with buttons/wires, etc. We couldn't believe how into it he was... we thought he'd lose attention after the first little bit - but he was talking, pointing at things, running from one thing to the next, and asking for more the ENTIRE time! We were there almost 3 hours and he was totally engaged, having a blast! This was very surprising because there was only one section that was really geared toward kids. Maybe he'll be an engineer, pilot, or astronaut! haha!

Here he is telling daddy about the rockets and space stuff! He talked NON-STOP the whole time we were there, he was so excited!

He was dissappointed when it was time to go... we assured him that we'd come back again :)

Taking a little snack break on the lawn of the National Mall! It was beautiful!!

Here we are in front of the WWII Memorial... the boys were fast asleep at this point.

Worn-0ut kiddos :)

Washington Monument :)

Alex and I in front of the Capital Building. Everything was so beautiful... we had a great day! Next time we're thinking we'll visit a museum in the afternoon and then see the Mall at night when the monuments are all lit up! And I love that all the Smithsonian Museums are free... we took a picnic lunch and some snacks and spent only $18 for the entire day downtown - and that was just to park the car!

These pics are actually from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday... we enjoyed making chocolate chip cookies on Sunday afternoon!

Here's our first trip to the pool (It just opened on Friday since it's a new complex)

Nathan loved the water!!

Alex was a bit hesitant to go out into the actual pool... he spent most of the evening playing in the wading pool area playing with his beach ball and the fountains :)

We also spent some time at the Potomac Mall in Woodbridge... it is HUGE! It takes about 40 minutes just to walk from one end of the mall to the other... it's crazy! The mall is split into 5 sections and each one is practically it's own mall. I got some great deals on end-of-season sales for clothes for the kids for next spring/summer!

And Sunday we checked out the second church we've been to since we got here... more on church hunting later though... it's time for breakfast!