The Brandt Family: March 2012

Last week was spring break, today is the first day back to school, YAHOOO!!! Lol. Most of spring break the girls spent there time with their other parents because of our work schedules. But then I had thurs and fri off so I was able to get both of them so we could have some fun. Friday we met up with some friends from church and went to the Mesquite Groves Aquatic Center in Chandler. The girls had a blast. We will definitely keep this place in mind for the summer and it was very cheap to get in too!! Plus, for me :)

The girls loved their lazy river, they spent most of their time going around and around.

And Janiece enjoying it by herself

While Ciera and Chloe waited for the whirlpool

Yep, its a whirlpool, like a giant spa that spins you around it. ha, they loved it

Ciera off the diving board

and when its time to go home they were still in the lazy river. :)

Well I guess our lives have been a little boring for a while since it has been a bit since I updated the blog :)
Well here is some excitement.
The hubby has a job site going on in Maryland right now so he decided to take me with on this trip to the site since it was an easy trip. He also has a long time friend that him, his wife, and little cutie son live in Alexandria, VA. So we made a little vaca out of the trip to visit and since I have never been on the east coast before, got to visit DC!!
I was forced to get up at 3:45am, yes that says AM to catch our flight out on Thursday. Got into Baltimore about 1:00pm and went straight to the job site which is on a military base so I was not allowed to take any pics :( After spending a nice 30-45 mins in the car, alone, while the hubby did his work stuff. We were off to check in to the hotel, get cleaned up and head over to our friends the Shaws for dinner.

A tunnel that goes under the harbor, too bad it didn't have glass windows :(

The capital from the freeway!

Washington monument from the freeway!

Friday morning we got up, of course I had to get my starbucks, which was in our hotel!!!!!!!

Then we walked around Old Town Alexandria, Va. Which is where we stayed.

The Federal court house of VA which was across the street from The Westin, our hotel.

Alexandria National Cemetery

Alexandria Town Hall

Remember the Titans?? ha ha

The harbor at Potomac River

Me and the hubby

Showboat on the river

The back side of the capital from the river.

After a nice afternoon enjoying Old Town Alexandria, with lunch at the Warf which had the best clam chowder, we drove back to our friends, The Shaws for their homemade pizza for dinner!!! Sooo yummy!

Saturday, we got up. Had breakfast at the Shaw's house and then headed to DC. So beautiful and yes, very, very chilly!!!!

The George Washington Masonic Memorial which was across the street from our hotel too.

The Washington Monument

Jefferson Memorial

The monuments from across the water

The top of the capital

Freedom of Speech,

Freedom of Worship,

Freedom from Want,

Freedom from Fear

Franklin Roosevelt Memorial

Me and Eleanor :)

Martin Luther Memorial

Represent AZ in the WWII Monument

Pacific coast!!

AZ baby!! lol. What a beautiful memorial!!

All the stars representing the fallen soldiers

I was sooooo bummed that they had a leak in the water system that they had drained the pool :(

Lincoln Monument

How talented am I to get us and the monument all in one shot!!

MUSEUMS!!!!!!

First museum on the list: National museum of American History

Jefferson's Bible, very interesting

The fall of the Great Wall

The straw hat and boots from Wizard of Oz

Jim Hanson's first puppets

Michael Jackson's hat!!! (too bad they didn't have the glove :()

My favorite part: The dresses of the first women!! Got Mrs. Jackie's dress. So pretty!!

National museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Castle

Luke found his new work truck!!

Then off to the National museum of Air and Space!!

The Wright Brother's plane

Love all the different planes!!

A model of an air craft carrier with tons of planes.

the snow planes with penguins!!

The Capitol!!

Luke's head is blocking the capitol but we were so blinded by the sun, we decided that it was good.

Some people "occupying something" :)

The White House, and yes Mr. Obama was home!

We found out that they train squirrels to kill on the front yard!! This one was training with the stick!

and this squirrel was the look out! He even ran up to the gate to make sure we all knew they were serious about their security of the yard!

The Federal Treasury Building

And I just thought this building was pretty!!

We got to look out over the White House!! How awesome is that with the sunset!!

Then we went to dinner at a fabulous spot that the Shaw's took us to down the street from the White House!!

David and his super cute son, Andrew!!

and that would be the Pentagon from the freeway, ha

Sunday, was our last day in Baltimore. So me and the hubby got up late and then headed to Baltimore to check out the sights there before heading home :(

Baltimore Raven's stadium!!

Love the buildings out here!! So different then AZ buildings!!

We found a pirate ship

Baltimore's aquarium

Inner Harbor, Baltimore

Had lunch at the Hard Rock!

And we found a submarine

And we were just in time for the St Patty's Day parade

I love how they changed the national bank into a chinese restaurant. :)

My lovely hubby sitting in Baltimore traffic. I guess the little parade didn't help the traffic downtown. Blah!!

Then I happen to see that we were in Charm City. WHAT..... We had to go to Charm City Cakes, I wanted to meet Duff, but unfortunately, they were closed :(

DUFF, WHERE ARE YOU???????

very beautiful church buildings!!

Well that's about it for our trip :( It was a great time to get away with just the hubby, but we are definitely going to try to take the girls back with us in Oct, HOPEFULLY :)