Pathway of Peace

This weekend we went downtown to take some Christmas pictures near the white house and the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse. Surrounding the big Christmas tree they have a smaller decorated tree for each state and a whole miniature train village set up. They also had Santa's workshop and a santa to take pictures with. The workshop was really neat; Brady loved it! He also loved the train and cried when we had to leave. Poor little bear! It was freezing so we didn't stay long.

When I was in first grade and we lived in the Northern VA/DC area, we went downtown to see this pathway of peace and I think i have a picture of me just like this in front of one of the state trees. I thought it would be fun to re-create it 20 years later.

If you look closely this is a picture of Santa's workshop with the Washington monument in the background.

The boys sitting on Santa's lap. Neither one was afraid and both hopped right up and started cheesin away. It could be because this was inside in a heated building, so they were nice and toasty after we had frozen them to death taking pictures outside!
Photo shoot at home while the boys were in their Christmas duds. Brady's face in this picture cracks me up!