D.C. Day 3

On Monday morning we got up early and left Norfolk, Virginia and headed back to D.C. We made it back around noon and made our first stop at the Lincoln Memorial.

This is the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial on the way to the Lincoln Memorial:

The Washington Monument on the opposite side of the Lincoln Memorial:

Then we headed to the White House on foot. Of course we had to stop at get popsicles for the walk...Ninja turtle popsicles to be exact! Aren't these the best things ever??! Such a perfect, creamy consistency.

We got a hot dog at a food truck and went back to the hotel to drop all of our bags off from our Norfolk, VA stop. Then we got ready and headed to the Smithsonian District. It was almost 5:00 p.m. and the museum normally closes at 5:30 p.m. We got there and saw this sign out in front:

We read online that the museum stays open a little later on some Mondays randomly throughout the year. How lucky were we?!?!

Our first stop was the National Museum of American History. (pics from my phone)

This is a replica of Julia Childs' kitchen. 

Of course the most important thing to see at this museum were the ruby slippers. In case you didn't know, I had a Wizard of Oz obsession when I was younger. I had a shelf full of Wizard of Oz collectibles including collectible barbies, snow globes, ceramic plates and mugs, monopoly and trivia games, beanie babies and so much more! It wasn't all packed up into boxes until I moved away to college my freshman year.

Who remember ipods that big??? I don't!

I thought this was cool. This camera was used to capture the only known footage of the first plane that hit the  north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

So many other cool things! Then we ran over to the National Museum of Natural History.

Construction on the Washington Monument:

The Hope Diamond-45.52 carats

Once the museums closed we decided to walk to the U.S. Capitol as it was getting dark.

After walking back to our car we headed back to the hotel and got ready for dinner. We walked to a little Cafe down the street from our hotel . We were starving!!

Such an amazing weekend trip!! So many priceless memories. We went to bed at about 1 a.m. and woke up at about 2:30 a.m. to pack and head to the airport for our 6 a.m. flight on Tuesday morning. We learned that the street lights in D.C. are horrible! The roads were empty, but we were stopped at EVERY single street light on the streets. Not only were we stopped at every light, we had to wait minutes until it would turn green!! We thought somebody was pranking us it was so bad! Plus it was 3 a.m. and we were just EXHAUSTED. We basically didn't sleep much the whole trip PLUS we did tons of walking, but we're young and going to do crazy stuff like this while we can! : ) Who needs sleep anyway...

Spencer bought these at the airport and we basically slept the whole way home. 

We got picked up from the airport by my younger sister, got home, showered and headed to work on 3 hours of sleep. We are so blessed to be able to do little fun trips like this. Such good memories we will have with us forever! 

Thanks for following!

~Nat

Day 2-Baby Jaxon

The following day we got up at 7a.m. so we could pack everything up and took it with us to go see my sister, her husband and their new baby. They live about 2 1/2 hours from D.C. so we wanted to leave as early as possible. Let's just say we didn't get much sleep this trip. It was worth it though! We wanted to spend as much time as we could site seeing and visiting family, so that requires staying out late and waking up early. We probably got a total of 16 hours of sleep for 3-4 days. No regrets. : )

We made it to Newport News, Virginia around noon and headed straight to the hospital to surprise my sister. My brother in law knew we were coming. Thank goodness for him! We almost spoiled the surprise 2 or 3 times. Stupid group text messages! The whole family is on a group text message and a couple of times I texted or another family member texted about us being at the airport or being in Virginia a couple of times. So we had to call Nick and tell him to delete that message from her phone before she saw it. He saved us MULTIPLE times. Thanks Nick! : )

We were lucky enough to be able to help them bring baby Jaxon home from the hospital that day. So fun!

So cutttteeee!!

Not liking his car seat too much...

Lenny and baby Jaxon meet for the first time:

We hung out with them all night and tried the rest of the cupcake flavors. They didn't disappoint!

Every time Spencer held Jaxon he always looked so interested in Spencer. 

Here are some newborn pictures of baby Jax...

Just ridiculously adorable! 

The next morning we said goodbye and headed back to D.C.