D. C.

We went to D.C. back in June for Jared to take his Facial Plastics boards!! I had never been there before so it was fun to see everything. Of course, it would of been more fun if Jared could have gone with us to all the sites but his tests were pretty much all day! 

We got in Friday evening and decided to run down to see the Jefferson Memorial. 

It was awesome because we were there right at sunset. 

Always the adventurous one! 

Daddy and Kai taking it all in!

Checking out Jefferson.

 There were some pretty amazing quotes in there by Him. 

Our Fore Fathers sure were religious men. Too bad our leaders today aren't!

 

 As we were reading all the quotes, I looked down and noticed that Kai was gone. So scary!! We were calling her and running around. There were people everywhere so it was so scary! We found her out here just chilling on the steps! 

Little Stinker!

 

Jared and never ending work calls!

 

The sunset wrapped around the monument. 

It made for some awesome photos!

 Playing with my favorite squirt!

As we were walking back to the car we came across a little grassy section with a bunch of Fireflies. These are seriously the coolest things I have ever seen and by far my favorite thing about living in the East. At our house in Syracuse we lived next to a field and there were hundreds of fireflies out there every night.

 So  Amazing!

 The next day, Saturday Kai and I headed off to have our own adventure while Jared went to his test. 

Our first stop-Arlington National Cemetery!! 

This place was obviously pretty cool. W

e walked around and saw John F. Kennedy's grave as well as other presidents.

 But of course, my favorite part was the tomb of the unknown soldier. Just such a reverence and spirit there. Makes you grateful for all the unknown and known soldiers who have fought for you!

By this point it was getting pretty hot and we decided to head down the the Natural History museum to cool off. It was cool but not really great for toddlers.

 

 The best part was meeting up with our dear friends Sean and Tiff and their two cute kiddos.

It was so awesome to see them and hang out! 

It felt just like ole times in Hawaii!

These two hit it off right away!! 

So cute, they held hands as we walked towards the National monument. The Capital is in the Background.

Sean was their own personal vehicle. 

He is a stud and made sure these two little monkeys were safe!

Saying goodbye to our friends. 

Our visit was definitely way too short!

By this point we were both pretty wiped out but Jared was pretty close to being done and I really didn't feel like taking the subway home so we headed over to the white house to check it out. 

Kai feel asleep on the way there. I asked these two gay guys to take the photo and one of them was like you have to wake her up for the photo and I was like oh no we don't, clearly you don't know anything about children!! You never wake up a sleeping toddler unless you  have to. 

It was funny!

It was a fun day but we were pooped. Walking around all day and being 5 months pregnant in the heat and humidity not fun!! Thankfully Jared was able to come pick us up.

The next day, we went and saw the Declaration of Independence, etc. It was cool but so faded you really couldn't see much of it. Mostly it was just really nice to be inside the nice cool building.

Then we headed out to the national mall.  This is the World War Two Memorial! This was one of my favorite things we saw! I took a photo of Kai in front of all the state she has lived in and Utah since that is kind of our home base!

One of the coolest things about this memorial is that you are able to sit around the edge of the water and dip your feet in it.

 It felt so nice. 

It was definitely tricky to keep this two-year-old from jumping and splashing in the water but she did pretty good. 

We hung out for quite awhile just people watching and enjoying the day! 

 

Then we made our way down to the Lincoln Memorial. It was super crowded but really cool to see. 

Although I must say that this was the most stressful places for me. Kai just kept taking off up the steps because she loves steps and has her whole life but I had the stroller and couldn't just run up after her. She was being a little stinker and not listening to me. A few times random strangers would grab her while she was running away and bring her back to me.

D.C. was fun and cool to see but next time I want to go sans kids so I can actually enjoy it!

Jared came and picked us up and we headed down to Virginia for the next leg of our trip.

 If your wondering how Jared did on his boards, he passed with flying colors. It was funny because in  April he had taken his ENT Boards and called me halfway through them telling me he should just quit now because there was no way he was going to pass them. He was certain that he failed them so the whole time preparing for the facial boards he just felt defeated and had a hard time focusing. Then the day we were leaving to go to D.C. he received his ENT board results in the mail and found out that he had passed, just like  I knew he would the whole time. That was perfect timing and really lifted a big stress off of him!