Grandpa comes for a visit

Grandpa Saunders came for a visit this week on his way back from Kurdistan where he will be building luxury houses for the next few years. It is a long story, but the good news is we will probably get to see him more often when he takes a layover here for a day or two on his way back home. Yea!! we love Grandpa!

On this visit we took Grandpa to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport. The building opened in December, 2003, and provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot be exhibited on the National Mall. The two sites together showcase the largest collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world.

There are lots of plaques that tell you all about how cool the planes are but we didn't need that because we had Grandpa who loves planes and could tell us how cool all the planes were all by himself.

Evan spent the day running around like a lunatic telling Grandpa "I found the airplane! Come this way Grandpa, how about this airplane!" It is difficult to keep up with a two year old's energy level.  He was very excited to be spending the day with his Grandpa Saunders and it showed.

Mommy's favorite part was seeing the Space Shuttle Discovery. It is about 4-5 times bigger than I thought it was going to be no wonder it needed all those huge rockets to get it into space.

We are so glad that Grandpa came to visit and can't wait till we get to see him again.

Flowers In our Garden

Its spring here in Virginia and the flowers are out. Evan and I have been working hard getting our garden ready and planting lots of flowers.

Evan has been a great little helper. He loves to dig in the dirt and show mommy where all the flowers should go.

He takes digging in the dirt very seriously. My trowel is now Evan's Shovel and he will tell you all about it.

Our hard work has paid off and we have lots of pretty flowers in our garden. We love to go out side to smell the flowers but no touching. I got too close to some of the flowers the other day and Evan pulled me away and told me "no mommy, no break it". So we take our flowers very seriously around here.

Happy Easter

This year for Easter Evan participated in not one but TWO Easter egg hunts. The first one we went to was put on by the city of Falls Church. They had it divided into age groups to avoid trampling. We were in the three and under group. There were a lot of kids there and Evan was very excited. It was over in about 1 minute. That is about my child's attention span so it worked out perfect.

 Considering the amount of time he had to collect eggs and candy before it was all gone I'd say he got a pretty good haul. The apple slices were mom's addition hoping that he wouldn't just fill up on chocolate eggs before lunch.

Mmmmmmm... chocolate!!!
Evan had a lot of fun running around with chocolate all over his face and he even got to say hi to the Easter Bunny. We will definitely be back for the fun next year.

We also participated in a Easter egg hut at our friends house where the eggs were empty but there were a lot more of them and no elbows were needed in the search.

        HAPPY EASTER!