the trip

I am relying on friends and family for pictures, so pictures may be sporadic. We left thursday morning at 2am for Maryland. The girls apparently thought it was great to be woken up at 2, and therefore didn't go back to sleep. It took Kennedy 1.5 hours before she fell asleep and Reagan lasted 2.5 hours in the pitch black morning hours before she finally closed her eyes. Then, at the first crack of light they were wide awake. Yikes! So crankiness was inevitable. We checked in to our hotel and headed to DC to spend a few hours before we needed to be back at the hotel to meet everyone. We didn't see a whole lot, but the girls were happy to be out of the car and run around. Reagan rode the carousel twice, Kennedy only once, and we hit the Museum of Natural History. They thought the Metro was awesome!

Next we headed with the family to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. We ended up waiting 1.5+ hours before we got seated. Luckily Kennedy snoozed for half of it, and Reagan wandered the mall with Aunt Amber. They rode the escalator way too many times and watched a band play music. Dinner was yummy, of course!

Day two we headed to the Temple at 9. Lots of pictures and a wedding ceremony, then we headed to lunch about 1. The girls napped for most of the drive to Philadelphia, phew! We checked in at our hotel and then headed to the reception. The girls (especially Reagan) loved, loved, loved to dance! Afterwards we took them to the hotel and put them down and played games with the family (we miss you Tuckers!)

Sunday we decided to head in the opposite direction of home and drove to New Jersey. They have an awesome Aquarium there! I am hoping to get pictures from Jon to show you this weekend. We got to pet, yes PET, sharks, starfish, anemone, jellyfish, shrimp... It was AWESOME! Plus we got to see penguins and seals and hippos and turtles and fish and... Yea, I will just have to show you pictures. Then we embarked on the 12 hour drive home - fun!

So here are some pictures of my cute lil girls in their $15 dresses brand new off Ebay!

They danced...

and danced...
and danced...

My little momma's girl

An *attempt* at a family picture...

My sweet lil beauties - what troopers!

Congratulations to Eric and Khirah - pictures to come!