One Crazy Month

So this past month was super crazy for us and I have tons of pictures to share!  Rob had to take a month-long review course in Washington DC, and I didn't want to sit at home by myself with the kids all month.  So I decided to spend a couple weeks in Atlanta and was able to fly up to DC (without the kids!) for a few days to see Rob.  Rob and his med school buddy, Garrett, arranged it so they could take the course at the same time, so they were roomies for the month and then Hannah (Garrett's wife) and I met them for a few days and had a blast catching up and seeing the sites.  For some reason, when I posted these, the order got mixed up and I'm too lazy to manually drag them into the correct order. So without further adieu--the pictures!

Trunk-or-Treat #1 (in Atlanta)

Upside down picture of the Halloween bags to match their costumes!

Loving the swing at Andee and Dave's house

My little Dragon

Halloween playdate (Charleston)

"Music Lessons" with Papa

Our Halloween Queen

Playing with cousin Grant

After a fun night of kickball and hanging out with high school friends.  Sorry Mike, the only non-fuzzy picture is the one with your eyes closed!

Paining pumpkins

Pumpkin patch

Hayride and cousin Megan!

Lots of time spent reading with Nana.

Hammering nails into our jock-o-lantern to make light holes.

Halloween party for the cousins at Nana's house.  Adeline was so excited to help Nana plan and prepare for the party.

Way too many mornings spent with the kids coming into my room way too early.  Luckily the iPad and Netflix kind of gave me a few more minutes of rest.

Georgia Aquarium for Halloween.  There was hardly anyone there!

The dolphins were the highlight of the trip.  Especially the dolphin show!

Loving her Halloween costume!  Good thing too, because it was a LOT of work to make it for her!

Apparently, Bobby likes to drink sour cream.

Trunk-or-treat #2 (also in Atlanta)

Pictures for our actual Halloween trick-or-treating

White house!

The Washington Monument had scaffolding all over it and the lights on the scaffolding looked really cool at night!

China Town

Co Co Sala (Chocolate themed restaurant!)

Shopping with some crazy kids!  I still make them both sit in the cart every time we are in a store!

I wrote a piece for my writing group about my dad and his guitar while I was in Atlanta and we found this great picture of him.

Back at home Bobby cutting a vase of flowers from the yard for Grandma Sherie.

Rob did a little protesting while he was in DC

Bike riding at Rock Creek Park in DC.  They close the road on Saturday mornings for bikes so we road from Silver Spring, MD to downtown DC.  It was so much fun and absolutely beautiful!

LOVED the museum of Natural history.  Especially the parts about geologic time and evolution.  It was so interesting!  And this chart blew my mind.  You can't see in this picture, but the swirl represents the history of the earth and the green and blue and orange parts represent things like plant life and fish and reptiles, etc.  The part that represents how long humans have been on earth is a tiny red line at the end (you can't even see it in the picture)! 

Library of Congress.  Not a great pic of the building, but it is incredible.  We took a guided tour and it was fantastic.

Arlington National Cemetery.  Beautiful fall day.

We ate tons of great food!

At the James Bond exhibit at the International Spy Museum.  

More good food.  Nandos Peri Peri was delicious!

At Chinatown again.

Adeline learned to climb really high at this park in Atlanta.  Unfortunately, she didn't learn how to climb down by herself.

Stopping for lunch and some "light" shopping at ikea on the way out of town.  The kids decided to have a little tea party with the display setup.

Rob's buddy Ben was in Atlanta for a conference so they got to hang out for a day before we headed back home.