Friday, July 1, 2011

Owen and Weston just being cute. They were walking around the house with these flip flops singing and laughing and being silly.
I was traveling stand by because a friend gave me a buddy pass and I thought I would try it and see how it was. Traveling to Washington wasn't to bad - I made it on the same day. But my flight was full on the way home and looking at the following 5 days the planes had no extra seats. I found a ticket that would leave three days later that was a better price than all the rest and hurried and bought it.   Instead of leaving Thursday morning I left Saturday night.  So I got a bonus 3 extra days in Maryland. Yea!  But I don't think I will go standby again - at least not in the summer.  
This was one of the first space shuttles.
We decided to do another tourist attraction. We went to the National Air and Space Museum.  It was not the one at the Smithsonian. It is 1 1/2 miles from one of the airports.  It was amazing!
The architecture of this building was incredible, this was one HUGE building!
Stacy and Owen
Below Myself and Owen. The small white bomber plane behind us was a Japanese suicide bomber. The plane is a bomb with a small place for pilot to sit and direct bomb.  There were 5,000 missions  which means 5,000 Japanese pilots died. Very worth while.  They had tours going every half hour which when I did catch a few things they were saying it made it so much more interesting.  Hard to do with little ones but if you don't have little ones I highly recommend it!!!

Friday, June 24, 2011

Painting Stacy's Walls

Stacy has been telling me she abhors the peach walls in her new house, so we decided to have a "painting party".  We did the kitchen, bathroom and upstairs hallway. I have to say it looks amazing!
 Stacy painting the bathroom and below Scott putting things back together again.
 Here we are in the kitchen having fun!
 Here I am laying down on the job!

 Oh, the neck!

Monday, June 20, 2011

Owen's First Swim Lesson

Picture above - After working with Owen for 4 days he was not afraid to put his head under water and was in the beginning stages of swimming without floaty's. He could jump in and swim on his back and was having a blast.  I wish I could have had one more week swimming with him. 
 Below - Owen swimming with his teacher, Krista.  (Krista is in Stacy's new ward.)


 Owen wants to jump so bad and is trying not to be afraid. And he does it!
  Weston wanting to join in the class.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

National Aquarium in Baltimore

  I have been visiting my daughter, Stacy and her cute family in Maryland. During my stay we decided to head up north to Baltimore and check out the National Aquarium.  I highly recommend it!  This is a state of the art facility, sparing no expense.  The kids had a ball and so did we.  Here are some pictures of our big day out:

The architecture in Baltimore was an experience in itself.  This is the building where the Aquarium is.

This is across the way from the aquarium.  I love the style of these buildings!

Feeding time!!!  They have full-time scuba divers that feed all of the fish, every day, and all different foods.  It's quite an operation.

 My darling Owen!

They had everything you could imagine and many things you would never imagine! (below)

Weston and Scott.

                        This is in the rainforest they have on the top floor.  We saw everything from sloths to pineapples growing out of the ground.
                                                                Sharks lurking around
      Scott and Weston were mesmerized with all the fish and sharks swimming around. This place was huge!
                                        Sweet Weston watching intently to all the action going on.
                                                 Dolphins playing and chasing each other.
                           This is one of many different varieties of Jelly fish.  They were very cool!

Friday, April 3, 2009

Owen and Kaylee at the Park

Kaylee and Owen love to be together.