Happy birthday Karen

 I am glad you are having a fun trip.  I love the pictures.  I am sorry Luna had a hard day, that sounds like a really long day.  Casey's caving friends wife does photos so he got me her number.  Thanks for getting them done also, I am excited.  This morning Isaac had driver's Ed.  They drive around as course in Smithfield so I dropped him off and went to exercise class which was high and I had so much fun.  Last we we ordered a really expensive field detector so we could find gold up in the mountains.  This morning we went and got a old metal detector off of ksl.  It will be fun.  We picked up Isaac and met up with Randy then went up to Idaho and went fishing in his boat.  It is so beautiful up there and the leafs are starting to change.  It ended up being winding and they had to go to a different dock to get out.  They caught two small fish that we couldn't keep.  Oliver's hat fell in the water and he fell in while trying to get it.  A really nice guy kayaked over to it and got it for us.  We had a fun time overall.

Love Rachel 

Saturday

​Luna fell asleep so early last night. I had a hard time falling asleep so I didn’t go to bed till late. Then Luna woke up early. I was tired and felt under the weather.So we watched sponge bob. We needed to get our truck inspected. So we took that and got it done. Basics the second we left the house till the time we got back Luna so was emotional. I think she cried for 2 hours straight. While the car was getting Inspected I took her to slim chickens and got chicken nuggets. She calmed down for a bit but then something made her upset again. The Grover’s daughter had a play tonight we went to. I told Luna she could have chocolate if she didn’t cry the whole time. It worked and she did great. It was a long day of emotions for the little one. We are planning on taking it slow tomorrow to reset. I’m glad your trip is fun. Thanks rachel for setting up pictures for us

Robin

Saturday

 Vacation has turned out really fun. Today we really did it all. My legs are tired. I bet i almost got as many steps as rachel today. 20578. We at the archives and saw a lot of the documents. I was surprised how faded they were. It was hard to even tell what they were. Man was there a lot of security. We went to the art mueseum. We had lunch there. We walked over to the gardens by the capital. Casey would have loved it there.  We went over to the capital and took a tour. It is a beautiful building. I was really surprised that most of the pillars are made out of sandstone instead of marble. The tour was nice. You could walk over to the library of congress through a tunnel. What a beautiful building. It didnt look like there were any books. We went to the lookout and you could see.them all. You had to have a card to go.in and touch them. They checked our bags to make sure we didnt have any books on our way out. We got a.crazy idea.to go see the Lincoln memorial at the other end. We hopped on trax and got off by the washington monument. We walked over to the Lincoln memorial. It was a ways. Luckily they did have an elevator up to the statue. It was magnificent. We walked back to trax and came home. We were going to eat out but the places we picked was closed. Go figure. We just came home and had dinner. We are going back to the mall and pick a few mueseums we haven't seen. It wont be so much walking tomorrow. Unless we go back to the Lincoln memorial. The chances.of that are slim. it is hot and humid. Have a great Sunday. I cant believe how fast time is going. Love mom

Friday

 Today was good.  Work was slower this morning and I worked on somewhere reports.  I had some change orders in the afternoon.  For cross country Isaac ran to Aggie ice cream and they got a free one then they drove him back.  I picked him up after work.  Ruth's friend Liliana came home and they walked over to the park and had fun.  I was so proud of Oliver, he had a bad grade in math so he talked to his teacher and figured out what was going on.  Then we worked on what he was missing today.  He knew how to do everything and had been paying attention.   He is doing great.  Oliver had a birthday party and then he played D&D at the library.  He had a lot of fun at both of them.  Isaac had a cross country dinner at the park and then he went out with his friends.  Ruth's pants ripped and we tried to find a new pair but shopping is so emotional for her.  We didn't get anything.  I am glad you guys are having fun and we love seeing the pictures.

Love Rachel 

Friday

 We had a good day. We had to take the red line to the zoo and I have never seen such long elevators. They went on and on. We were way underground. I have never been on that long of an elevator. The zoo was so beautiful. It was so tranquil. I was just amazed how much room the animals had. It had such big windows on the displays. The elephants have a huge place. There was an orangutan that had a hand broom and dust pan and would get a handful of hay and sweep and sweep it. Then he would. Lean his brushes and start again. We were there all day. The pandas were asleep.and we went back and they were eating. That was something to see. It rained last night so it was humid but.cooler which was nice. No one wears jeans. They all.wear linen. Makes a lot of sense. Have a great weekend. Love mom rachel i love your rug

Friday

 I like your rug Rachel, it looks nice. My day was good we got up and went to the zoo. It was a really cool zoo. They had nice enclosures for the animals. I am still having trouble getting pictures to post on the blog so that is why I texted them. Robin there were national guard men's at the metro station when we got off on the way back. Tomorrow we are going to hit the monuments and museums on the mall tomorrow. I hope everyone had a great day. Bye

Thursday

 Oliver has a cold so he stayed home from school today.  He had a sore throat and a cough.  Isaac had early morning practice so it is hard to work out driving him there and picking him up.  It is so dark also.  Work went well.  I just have a couple projects that I am working on slowly and it is going great.  Isaac had violin lessons and Oliver had cello lessons.  I took Ruth to the hobby lobby so she could get more beads.  Isaac had driver's Ed.  They brought a family in that was a in a bad car crash to scare the kids to drive safely.  Me and the little kids mowed Peggy's lawn.  Casey went running and then helped at the end.  We went and got ice cream.  Ruth got three scoops.  Oliver wanted three scoops but he ordered wrong.  I got a new rug for downstairs and I love it so much.

Love Rachel