Some vacations!

This last month has been crazy for us!  So fun, but nuts.  During the last couple weeks of May, we traveled all the way back east to see our family.  I was raised in New York, and a good portion of my family is still there.  We live in our beautiful small county-Wallowa County, so my kids don't know much about "the big city."  It was just the girls and I, the boys were at home with daddy for 10 days.  We did have a ton of special time with just the girls.  It was a lot of opportunity for teaching diversity and love.  They also learned how busy and loud the city is!  We all loved it a lot, but we were so grateful to get back our peaceful mountains.  Then a few days later, I got to travel a few hours to get to practicum.  I'll tell you about that in a later post.  (Practicum, is the 3 day training CC Foundations tutors have to go to).  Now I am finally back from that, we will try to restore some order to our household this week, only to have to leave again for Seattle on Friday..  We are going to see the Olympia rain forests also and go to the beach!  We are pretty excited :)  So here are some pics of our trip to the statue of Liberty.  This was Summer's favorite part.  It was pretty cute how each one had a different part that they loved.  Their personalities are soo different.  Summer was eating up the wealth of knowledge at the statue of liberty.  Acaydia's favorite was getting to see Medieval times.

We just had to get a picture of our gorgeous mountains :)

Ferry ride to Ellis Island

Our Lady Liberty!

She had to stop and read EVERY.SINGLE.PODIUM.  It was beautiful actually.

Something incredibly fun about riding at the top of the ferry in the rain!

What is a vacation without a little selfie?

Of course we had to read all the info at Ellis Island.  My dear sponge :)

We found our last name a lot here :)

I think my sister learned about as much as they did :)

It was fleet week at the city.  It was awesome seeing all the military and veterans.  The girls enjoyed running up to a lot of them and saying "thank you for your service".  It was so cute.

Acts in the street?  A new kind of culture that they enjoyed.

How can we go to NY without getting pizza?

She didn't even need to be told to fold it!  LOL

I will post more pics at a later time :)  Have a great day!