Jefferson Memorial, Air & Space Museum, Washington DC Temple, and Lucy's Pigtails

Shea, Erin, Calvin, and Emily, came to visit us this weekend :) We had fun seeing them again this summer!! We saw some of the sights together, starting first with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. I must say, I LOVED this memorial, I think it was my favorite.I just really felt how amazing a man he was and how inspired he must have been. It was a beautiful building, I guess the dome top on buildings was Jeffersons style, so that was neat. It was a huge circular building with giant pillars surrounding it and a statue of Thomas Jefferson standing in the middle. The walls inside were engraved with different quotes from him. We went in the evening and that was so great, it was nice not to deal with crowds or heat :)

 View from the back, you can see Jeffersons' statue in the middle

 Front view, I wasnt able to get back far enough to see the dome top :)

 Inside, you can kinda see one of his quotes on the left

 Looking out and across the river, the sun was setting and it was so peaceful!

So HUGE!

The next day we headed over to the REAL Air and Space museum in Chantille. It was HUGE with hundreds of real airplanes, missiles, and other cool things...yes life size :) 

 Chads' "I Love Call of Duty"...this is a blackbird spy plane that I guess is in his game :)

It is very cool looking; sleek.

 I on the other hand, preferred this cute little thing :) Its a helicopter from the Korean War

 We decided Lucy would be a cute astronaut for Halloween :)

 Lucy was really bored the first half in her stroller, I took her out and she got SO excited! She was so playful :)

 Its hard to see the tiny helicopter in the background but it was this cute little one-man, open-air helicopter that was designed to be dropped behind enemy lines to stranded pilots that could then fly it out; it was never used though. There were a few other little one-seater helicopters like this, all I could think about was how much fun it would be to fly one around the gravel pit ;)

 Calvin holding the map :) and Emily

Oh my goodness I love her!

After the air museum and dinner Shea and Erin watched Lucy for us so we could go to the DC temple!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS AMAZING!! Such a beautiful temple :)

 Its such a big and gorgeous temple :)

 The grounds in front of the temple 

At night :)

....And just for fun I have to add this adorable picture of Lucy's head :) Erin let us borrow some of Emily's hair bands and we put Lucy's hair in pigtails!!!!!!!!!! All of it :) I couldnt get a good picture of them from the front, she kept moving and the background was dark and her ponytails just blended in..... we HAVE to get some hairbands so that she can wear these often, so cute! :) 

We had so much fun with Shea and Erin and the kids this summer! It is so nice spending time with family! We love you guys!!!