VISIT TO THE CAPITAL BUILDING BOISE, ID

This is our second part of the trip. Tour of Capitol building. I mean self tour. We all enjoyed that day with everybody.

We think this is the best picture of all. Loved it..

After all the pictures we got from this tour, this is one of the best pictures Raja captured. He asked Andrew to jump so that he can get a still image of Andrew flying in the air. This is such a good picture. We loved it...!

While we are walking around we asked some strangers to take our family picture. It was a struggle to keep the kids at one place. But finally we succeeded.

Andrew posed for this picture. When I am looking at this picture, I think he is growing so fast and becoming a big boy. The way sits and poses for the picture is very teenage style.

Raja tried to be creative with this picture. We are all looking at the ceiling while he tried to take this COOL picture. This ceiling dome was pretty cool and pretty.

Inside the Capitol Building, there is a sculpture of George Washington on a horse. We wanted her to take a picture in front of it.

Raja tried to throw Natalia up in the air and catch. While he is doing that I tried to take a picture.

End of our tour in State capital, Raja tried to take a picture while throwing Andrew in the air. I think it came out to be not too bad at all.

OUR FAMILY TRIP TO STATE PENITENTIARY MUSEUM

Last two weeks before Raja suddenly decided to explore Boise Idaho Area. So he did research some areas to see and came up with the idea to go and see old state Penitentiary. That was so cool.

This is the laundromat. All the inmates brought their clothes and exchange for one bad set of clothes for one good one. This is old style laundromat.

In this museum there is a gun history selection too. We are all enjoyed that part. Andrew thought this would be cool to take a picture.
Andrew & Natalia is in front a cell.

Inside these cells they tried to cram four people. It is like tin sardine can. Not only you go potty in that tin cell, but also there is a potty place fixed onto the wall. It was insane... When you see the cell you can get cluster phobic.

This is the Gallows witness room as you see on the picture. Actually people can see who is going to hang. It is pretty scary place.

During our trip to prison, this is the most uncomfortable place to see. "The Death Penalty" section. You can see beyond this glass where the person got hanged and the hole beneath it. It is a gruesome place....

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

We started the day with green eggs and ham. (yes, the squares of 'blue mold' are actually squares of ham that sat in a little water with green food coloring.)

The kids decked out in their green! Andrew was on his way to gymnastics and insisted on wearing his swimming suit (for obvious reasons!) Natalia is trying to show her green fingernails.

Andrew's self photo

Me- green x2

This is the 'lucky potion' that Andrew and Natalia created by picking the 'clovers' found growing in our back yard. Andrew decided that keeping them in water was the best way to keep them from getting crunchy. He also brought some to school in a plastic bag to show his class.

Andrew's kindergarten teacher has made St. Patrick's day so much fun for the kids this year. It was complete with a Leprechaun trap with green noodles inside to catch the little fellow so they could ask him where his gold is. Apparently, at school the leprechaun came, didn't get caught, made a mess of everything red (a color he isn't fond of) then left them with chocolate gold coins.

Andrew was so excited, he made his own trap.

Unfortunately, he didn't catch the leprechaun either (although he did eat the left over green mac & cheese we had for lunch and took the green kazoo Andrew left.) In return, he shared some of his favorite green candy.

And Natalia, seeing that Andrew got his picture taken with a box, wanted to have her picture taken with a box too!

Andrew's School Carnival

When we first walked up to the school, outside the front was Andrew's principal, sitting in the dunk tank. So, Andrew immediately knew what he wanted to do first! He didn't hit the target, but we did get to see some other kids hit it!

Dinner is served! Nachos- yummm. They actually enjoyed it a little more than they show!

I'm pretty sure this is the first purchase Andrew has ever made with his own money, on his own. He has a little money that he has earned, but anytime he wants to spend it, we insist he save it. However, we decided that the only way for him to ever learn the value of money, is to use it. So, he brought some to his carnival and planned for days that he wanted to buy us all popcorn. He was very sweet- he wanted to make sure he got enough for us all!

This is the balloon-dart game

Face painting

Andrew wanted a batman symbol

Natalia picked a flower

Soda ring-toss

Natalia won!

Showing off prizes !

Spring is coming!

The weather is getting warmer and Andrew and Natalia are soaking it up! (Eventually Natalia put on a jacket, and Andrew downsized to one;) Here, they are playing on a wooden horse that Raja made for them.

Family Home Evening

Usually when we have family home evening, Raja or I take turns teaching a short lesson. Tonight, Andrew volunteered to be in charge, with the wonderful idea of acting out a Book of Mormon story. So, here we are, Lehi, Sariah, Nephi and one of Nephi's sisters. We walked back and forth across the living room a couple of times while Raja held his hands together pretending to hold the liahona. We talked about faith and trusting in the Lord.

(This doesn't have anything to do with family home evening, but I just had to show Natalia's fashion sense- hair accessories included. She's into the layered look:)

The Rock Show

Raja found out about a gem/rock show here in Caldwell. He wanted to take the kids, but had to work so we had to go without him. There were all sorts of gems, crystals and displays (some of which didn't seem to have anything to do with rocks, but were still fun to see.)

Andrew wanted to make sure to show off the helicopter he made earlier that day. It was pieced, glued and painted by him.

Probably the highlight for the kids, was the booth than gave them a scoop of sand in a pie tin and the chance to find some treasure! There were tiny polished rocks and crystals that the kids could find and take home- they loved it!

Girl's Day!!!

Since Andrew has started kindergarten Natalia and I get to have 'girl day' about once a week. We usually spend our time just running errands or doing everyday things, but we make it a big deal, call it 'girl day' and I get to spend one on one time with my daughter!