Red Ribbon Week

This tree was in DC. Isn't it just amazing? I tried to get some pictures of all the leaves changing color but I drove and Kirstin isn't the wiz I am at fast camera pics so this was our lone tree.

This past week was Red Ribbon Week at the schools. Red Ribbon Week is the school campaign for Just Say No to Drugs. Every day is a theme. Kirstin's school had an 80's day. I'm not quite sure what the catch phrase is but she had fun trying to look like I did in the 80's. I tried to explain to her that there were the early 80's and late 80's but it didn't really compute. I had fun doing her bangs and pegging her jeans.

Noah's look was mix and match. So we went with swim trunks and a polar fleece top. Well you get the idea. His newest camera pose is best described as droll.

This week was Emil M.'s court of Honor for Scouts. It's been a very long time since they've had one in our unit so he got 5 merit badges. He's getting ever so closer to his Eagle. He's an outstanding young man and we are very proud of him.

We had a youth temple trip on Saturday. Emil, Myself, Kirstin and Emil M. went up on Friday night and spent the night. Emil's parents were kind enough to take Noah for the weekend and spoil him royally I'm sure. We went to do some sight seeing on Saturday morning.

We wanted to go to the top of the Washington Monument but we needed tickets and they were all already taken for the day so we walked around it and then walked to the Lincoln Memorial. I cannot imagine being talented enough to carve this statue out. It was massive and just as impressive as you have seen it portrayed in countless movies. Lincoln was a truly compassionate president.

I'm thankful that we live so close to the nation's capitol and get to do fun things with the kids like this. Some of us definitely enjoy ourselves more than others. Well, at least on the outside anyway.

The weather was wonderful. It rained a bit but never very hard and the temps were most comfortable.

Kirstin's highlight was the Metro ride. She said she could have ridden it all day. The simple pleasures in life right? Kirstin and I had fun setting up this picture.

In between the Washington Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial is the WWII Memorial with this really cool fountain that I so wanted to walk right into but resisted the urge.

Kirstin and I made Emil M. stand on a lower step so we could be taller than him for once but even then we had to stand on our tiptoes!

However I did have a fun time taking some picks of the ceilings in the underground Metro stations.

I just loved the patterns. I like them better as black and whites then the true color which is very yellowish.

I thought this was a cool platform shot as well.

Come visit us. We have plenty more places we haven't seen and Kirstin will be your tour guide for the Metro!