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Art Merit Badge for Carson

This is for the Art Merit Badge Requirement 7: An acrylic painting based on Bob Ross Medium: acrylic paint A few sketches of a logo I will soon make. It's based on a C. medium: pencil A cool logo I drew with pens. medium: pens Another cool logo

Visit to the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum

Melvin and Nan just finished their Church History Mission in Salt Lake City. They started a trip in Ohio, then drove over to Pennsylvania, then to visit us on Friday and stayed with us through the weekend. We went to some places we've been before but they hadn&

Smithsonian's National Zoo - Zoolights

More lights, at the Washington DC Temple

There was a full moon, so Carson suggested that we take the picture with it as the 'star' on the top of the tree. Inside, there is a room with a bunch of nativities from around the world.

Ford's Theater

This man in period dress played the part of a constable from the night of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was really good, he set the scene and told us how Washington DC looked back then and how things were, then went through the timeline of the night and

International Spy Museum

We have been wanting to go to the International Spy Museum for a while now, so we finally went yesterday. We didn't realize there would be such a James Bond emphasis on all the exhibits, but that IS the epitome and glorification of spying, so..... There was a

Early Christmas Tree!

We couldn't wait to get a Christmas tree, so we went to Whole Foods and were probably the first people to purchase one.

Cox Farms

We went to Cox Farms with some friends last Thursday. It's a big pumpkin patch amusement place in Centreville, VA. We met our friends at our PE class in Chantilly last year. They live in Reston, VA, and we wish we lived closer to them, cause their boys

Air and Space Museum

We try to go to one of the Smithsonian Museums every week; we went to the Air and Space on Tuesday this week. Above, we were looking at the planet/space exhibit and Carson is using a device to zoom in on the various planets. Part of the aircraft carrier

Smithsonian Postal Museum

We went to the Smithsonian Postal Museum last week. It was in a building that used to be solely a post office, but recently they turned part of it into a museum. Old postal train car Mail transportation. Owney was the USPS mascot in the early 1900s, and he would

National Museum of the American Indian

We went to the National Museum of the American Indian. I thought it would be about Native American history and culture in North America only, but there are exhibitions on the indigenous peoples in North, Central and South America. I couldn't take any good pictures of the exhibits,

Our new place to live for 6 months

View of the backyard from upstairs. Entryway (one of the cool archways) Sunroom This house was built in the early 1920s, and has a few renovated rooms. I love the old smell throughout the house, and the old light switches, the old windows and baseboards. There are a couple of

Lexington, VA and Virginia Military Institute

On our way home, after the Natural Bridge, we stopped in Lexington for lunch. Keith wanted to see how close the Virginia Military Institute was, and it was just a few minutes away, so we drove over. Luckily, we had perfect timing, because we walked up right when the cadets

Natural Bridge, VA

On our way home, we stopped at Natural Bridge. This is a little display right before we got on the trail down to the bridge. After the picture was taken, I heard a couple of girls laughing about 'blah blah slaveowners!' That's all it's

Catawba, VA

We  went to dinner at the Homeplace restaurant in Catawba, VA, which is only about a 10 minute drive into the hills from where Dixie Caverns was. If you look closely, you'll see the flagpole with the confederate flag. Saw lots of these flags everywhere and lots of

Roanoke and Salem, VA

We have been wanting to check out Roanoke for a while now, so we finally went there this last weekend. This was a farmer's market they have downtown. We bought some raw honey from a man who lives in Catawba, VA. This is some honeycomb we tried eating;

Bethany Beach, DE

On the drive to the beach, we had to cross over water and had to go on these crazy bridges. The drive there was beautiful, as always, the countryside is full of green fields and lots of old farmhouses. In order to find parking, you have to get to the

Breath of the Wild figures

The kids got a Nintendo Switch recently and have been playing the game "Zelda: Breath of the Wild". Carson saw a DIY video on making a Breath of the Wild felt figure, and here are the results: Carson's is called a "Korok" in the

New apartment for the month of August: Shirlington Stay

We moved out of the NW DC basement apartment yesterday and are now living in an apartment in Arlington, VA in the Shirlington area. We'll be here for August. This place is much more urban than the DC apartment, which was in a quiet suburban neighborhood. We park

Our Nebraska Avenue DC home

Right through that white door Main common area with couches and table (Tucker and Savannah are looking at a little remote control robot car on the ground) Small kitchen area

The Georgian Hightree by Tucker Knight

One day, there was a tree called the Georgian Hightree. It was very tall. It was the tallest tree in the forest! But another day, when it saw that it was tallest tree in the forest, it started to brag to his neighboring trees like Redwood. Thinking that he was

Good Knight Art

Tucker's Bob Ross paintings Carson's Bob Ross paintings by Savannah Savannah's family portrait

Going to Utah

Here are our pictures from our trip to Utah! They will be out of order, yay! I can't figure out how to put them in order in the file folder, and there are about 200 of them, so I am just going to load them on the blog

Utah 2

Savannah in a kid's play area in the Family History Museum Campfire with family Looking out at Salt Lake from the capitol building Above: at Eyring Science Center at BYU holding bunnies at Phil and Nicole's house Above: Salt Lake Temple Visitor's Center viewing

Utah 3

Savannah holding her cousin at the anniversary dinner Church History Museum Inside the capitol building all the grandkids at the capitol building, you could act like you were speaking from a podium Hogle Zoo Connor, Cameron and Carson inside the capitol building Jace, Jaren, Ryan, Carson and Tucker Lori, Nicole,