Washington D.C. is awesome!

So at first, for like three seconds, I really wanted to act cool, and like I belonged there, but then I realized that wasn't going to happen cause I am a nerdy camera happy mom, and proud of it!Poor Lays about 3 seconds after I took this shot she tried to run through the wrong slot(Logan's) after he did, and the things closed, and she hit her head, and landed on her little bum!!!!

It was equally sad, and funny.

Everyone on the metro was sick of me and my camera by the end of this photo shoot.

Once we got there we went to the Air and Space Smithsonian.

It was so cool, we could probably go there every weekend for 10 years and not see/read everything.

All Lays wanted to see was Amelia Earhart(because of "Night at the Museum 2), but when we got there she wouldn't pose for me cause a guy was there telling her whole life story. I have to just come out and admit it. We are all info nerds. All of us just stood there forever listening to him talk about her f-o-r-e-v-e-r.

We also saw this camera/T.v. that showed your body heat.  Before we saw it I kept asking/nagging Tom about why he was still wearing his jacket.

Me- "Aren't you hot?"

"What are you still wearing your jacket for?"

"Are you sure you want to wear your jacket?"

"Let me put your jacket in the stroller!"

 So when I saw the monitor I made him stand there so I could prove that I was right.

And I was.

So he took it off!

I know what you're thinking. I am a bit of a nag aren't I?

Then we went to the Natural History Museum.

It was so "T"amazing!

Did you know since Lays was even little-er she has always said the giraffe is her favourite?

The rest of the day she kept saying- "I saw TWO Mommy! I saw two giraffes!"

I asked the boys to act scared of the T-Rex face. So I zeroed in on their faces so I could ask you if you think they liked my nerdy idea.

Then we hoofed it up to the Washington Monument.

IT WAS SOOOOOOOO WINDY!!!!!!!!!!

We were almost falling over!  I decided to take a little video. It was almost over, but you can kind of see what it was like.

Man that thing is tall. We found out you can pre-order tickets for like $1.50, so if you come we will take you to the top!

This is us after the wind storm, and on our way home.

End of the trip, and Happy Valentines day!

Tim wanted me to take a pic of how our stuff looked after the trip, so I did!

We are so very lucky to have a great ward out here who really helped us out.

I bet there were 12 strangers who spent their Saturday away from their families 

to move in all our junk for us!

Even though you hardly know me, and will probably never see this, I just wanted to say

THANKS!

The kids and I found out we had an "indoor hot tub!"

I love Logan's face in this one. It's like- "You're going to put this on your blog aren't you!"

I love these guys.

I also Love Tom, but I haven't got a pic for that.

The long long long long long trip with some highs and lows.

Ahhhhhhhhh!

For starters, we had to leave way late cause of the van stuff.

We were packed in there like pack rats, and I truly felt like a HOARDER, nothing was organized, it was just too much stuff!

Yep, we had our dog with us too. I had a Doggy "febreeze" that I sprayed on her when it got too bad. 

Day 1. We went from Boise to Tom's cousins house in the Salt Lake area. I want to say a specific town, but I'm sure I'll be wrong and Tom will make fun of me for it. We love Trent and Lichelle's family. I didn't get my camera out, but really wish I had. Our kids have such a blast with theirs. Kurt and Beth, and company, met us while we were there, and we got to say Goodbye to them. I swear we took pics, but it must have been with Kurt's camera. Hey Kurt...

is everyone sick of reading that I want them to send me pics yet?

Day 2. We woke up to find out that the roads were closed! So we spent the morning going and buying chains, and some wood cause Lays accidentally busted her cousins Puppet Theatre. Trent and Lichelle were so cool about it, but I insisted on picking up the wood to relieve my stress level which was rather high at this point. I was so worried that we weren't going to make it in time cause we had to be at our new house on Saturday to sign for our stuff, or they wouldn't bring it back till Monday, which was Tom's first day and, as a side note, Valentines day! I just read that, and HELLO run on sentence, but I think it shows how I was feeling. Anyways, the roads opened up at noon, and we took off shortly after that, but the weather was so crummy that we only got to Laramie Wyoming that day.

Day 3. Yep on day three we were out of the Hotel before 7 and it was -28*F. Yuck! I was holding Zepp's metal dog dish for like 20 seconds and almost pulled a less funny "Christmas Story" it was so cold. 

By the way, did you know how flat the middle of the country is? For like EVER!

Dad, this shot's for you!

And these pics are just for me.

At this point we were all going nutty. The top pics are of the glow sticks.

Henry loved them.

Did you know there was a place called Santa Clause.

it's all a blur, but on the 3rd night we stayed a ways outside of St. Louis.

Kurt that ones for you, and then we finally saw the castle that meant we were at Jacklyn and Ramsey's house!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack was shocked to find a naked Henry in her oven,

 and I do remember you said something

like- "Wow, my kids have never done anything like that before!"

Good job Henners.

Awwwwww. Aren't they adorable? Or as Jack would probably like to say "darling!"

Cute kids, hey what size of shoes are we looking at?

Logan fancied himself a musician.

I love my sister!

O.k., so the funniest part of this trip is that we hit some toll roads.

here is how it went down-

We were driving through some hills and right as we were turning around a sharp corner we saw like 20o feet in front of us was a toll booth.

Tom- "We'll just use our card."

Me- "I thought the sign said cash only."

Tom- "No it said no cash."

can you tell we were totally spent?

Toll booth guy- "Cash only." 

So we scrounged for way too long and found $2.00 in change.

Toll booth guy- "Sorry about your team, that was a sad game."

"THANKS"

So we go driving down the road glad we squeaked that one out. Never thinking that 30 minutes later, far away on the horizon

there would be another BOOTH!

SHOOT, SHOOT, SHOOT!

Tom- "Oh no! Emily, what do we do?"

Me- "I don't... wait! Logan has his stash of money in the car. I just have to go-

past the 50 foot tall mess of stuff,

slide in next to my sleeping Lay's, which just so happens to be

on top of Logan(who instantly starts freaking out about the "added weight"),

and dig in the trunk,

under Tom's suits(which I tossed on Lays who woke up screaming),

and through every single other persons stuff!"

Well to make a long story short, I didn't find it in time, and If you want me to paint you a picture, just picture me shoved upside down at the bottom of the trunk and almost falling out face first when Tom puts it in park, and opens the trunks door so we could steal Logan's Birthday money he has been saving since September.

And by the way, the next day we opened one of our many little compartments in our van and

 4 $1.00 bills roll out!!!!!!!!

The last Weekend in Boise.

These are Missy's kids. She also has a little baby, but he wasn't there when I took this pic. I am so trying not to cry. I might write more later, but for now I think I'm just going to talk about the pics.

These are our friends the Dallings kids. Thanks for sending the pic Jen.

We had a p.j. party before we moved and had tonz of fun eating tonz of POPCORN!

Once we packed the kitchen table

we had to get a little creative the last few days when we were packing up.

Thanks to all the people who helped us move. We couldn't have done it without you!

 Carol helped a ton with the kids, and Tim was a master packer.

Because of him, we didn't have anything break, and fit it all our stuff in.

Missy darling, I accidentally let you take all the pics of the going away dinner except for this one.

I'll add them as soon as I can make you send them.

So we were supposed to leave the next day, but our van decided it wanted to break, so we got to spend the weekend at Tom's parents house. And my brother Max and sister(in law) Melanie came to say goodbye with their kids/my way cute niece and nephews!

They had a blast together.

We went to the Boise zoo one last time, but I can't find the pics, Max, do you have them?

 We also had a lot of hot tub fun that I didn't catch.

The sad part of moving.

 My "T"amazing friend Missy threw a party for me to say goodbye to my Boise friends. I won't get to see them as much as I wish I could, and I already miss them tonz.

She did a great job. Doesn't she look so smug about it?

Jokes. I love ya, and just wanted to put that pic in.

Moving is so hard.