Christmas Vacation

This past week I had to send my kids back to school and my husband back to work and all I can say is it was a bummer!!! We had such a great time together as a family during Christmas break. The last week of December consisted of:

• sleeping in every morning



• lounging around in PJs all day if we wanted



• lots of reading



• LOTS of playing our new Wii
  

• a morning at Chuck E. Cheeses (what we do for our kids!)



• watching movies: The Smurfs, Kung Fu Panda, and El Cid



• riding new bikes



• finishing The Book of Mormon as a family




• game night with friends



• cheering our Utah Utes football team to victory in their bowl game



• practicing basketball



• going down to DC to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Riding the Metro down to DC.

Family picture in front of the Washington Monument.

We thought that the Museum of Natural History would hold the interest of the kids the best so that's where we spent the day. There were so many fascinating things to see but the day after Christmas was definitely NOT the day to go...it was packed!

We still had a lot of fun looking at the exhibits. We all enjoyed looking at the animals;

Noah liked the skeletons;

and all the kids enjoyed looking at the small insects and sea creatures through these bubble holes...we spent almost half an hour just in this one spot!

Noah was obsessed with the mummies, especially the one of this small child.

Xander measuring up to an elephant's leg bones!

Savannah and her rocks and minerals. Savannah and I also enjoyed our time looking at the Hope Diamond along with all the other amazing jewels they have on display.

Although there were too many people and we spent Savannah's first year college tuition on lunch, we enjoyed the day and all the many interesting things we got to see. We are so blessed to live close to DC!