Fireworks show! blah!

So we finally made it to Virginia to hang with my sister and her kids! They are so cute! Ok well we got here on the 3rd... so i guess we've been here quite a long time! And we've done lots! Like the 4th of July in Washington DC. That was a fun day! We hung out in DC all day. Ate at a hamburger Joint called Five Guys and then went to "the mall" to watch the fireworks! They were being shot off behind the Washington Memorial. However, it had been sprinkling all day so the whether was really heavy and muggy, and by the time we were supposed to stake out a spot to sit and wait for the fireworks it was pouring, my two year old nephew was screeming, and my four year old nephew was complaining about the rain. So we decided to hop in the car and try to go somewhere else where maybe we could wait in the car and watch them. and my brother-in-law came up with a good spot! So we packed up the kids and headed out... well, the place my brother-in-law was thinking about was all blocked off, and by this time we had about 20 min before the show. So we just started driving down the freeway, and there were people just parked on the side of the road in the grass waiting for the show to start. So we decided to pull off and watch it with all the rest of these smart people. Well seriously not even 10 min before the show was supposed to start police officers in their dumb cop cars came driving up and they started telling people that we had to leave and get off the grass or we would get a ticket... SO... we packed up again and decided to try something esle. We just started driving around and saw that the actual mall parking garage was open and we could probably see the fireworks from there! This was a great idea!! WRONG! We got up there and the top floor was shut off and the next floor was packed full of people. And then the fireworks show started! We got to see a total of 5 fireworks before the clouds of smoke from the fireworks began to put a wall up between us and them! We just decided to leave, and watched some of the firworks on the freeway driving home... and i couldn't believe it! We weren't allowed to park on the grass, but people were PARKED ON THE SIDE OF THE FREEWAY!!! That is so dangerous! It was rediculous! So ya it was a very eventful and busy day! But totally worth it! It was crazy fun! Here are some pictures taken throughout the day!

Vacation!!!

To anyone who still reads my boring blog I'm sorry i have neglected to write or put pictures on my blog for a while because one I'm lazy! And two... I've been traveling on a super long trip! We (as in my awesome family) are on a crazy trip and we've gone every where!!! And to remember where we went or which state we went to we are collecting Magnets! So lets see... we've been to: Salt Lake City, Utah (to see moms musical "1856 the musical" and to see grandma and Melanie)
Rigby, Idaho (spent time with ally and Ben, and Curtis Rachel and their kids.),
Aren't we just beautiful?!

Yellowstone Montana (to see where dad used to live and see his town. and to the Lewis and Clark caverns), I needed a picture of jonathan but the dumb thing wont turn!

I took this for ally... so here... i found your house for you! haha it was some random shack in the middle of no where...

South Dakota (Mount Rushmore, and Bear Country U.S.A., and the wall drug store "it's the biggest drug store in America", and the corn palace),

Correct (below)

Incorrect Happy Mad(growling) Surprised!! SadCrazyConfusedSeductive (check out mom and dad's seductive faces... haha)Cross eyed!!

Minnesota (Went to visit the Mayo Clinic mom and dad said hi to everyone there, then to the mall of America!!! it was totally awesome! me and Jonathan shopped all day long! And then at the end of the day we all went and saw Get smart. It is seriously one of the funniest movies i have seen in a LONG time!),

Nauvoo, Illinois (Saw Sharon and Hugh on their Mission for the church. They are doing so great! It was lots of fun to see them perform), St. Louis, Missouri (went to the top of the arch!),

Memphis, Tennessee (to the Gibson guitar factory, and we walked down Beale street! that was fun, saw Hancock... dumb movie... and then stayed in a cockroach infested hotel across the Mississippi because everything on Beale street was CRAZY expensive!!! But it was really fun!)