My Family's Visit...Restoring Honor in DC

The day after Drew's parents left a big chunk of my family showed up. Once again, it was so great to have family here with us. There were nine people stuffed into our little apartment for the week! It was great! I love being surrounded by family and staying up late talking with people scattered all around.

My older sister Haley brought Darcy her birthday present and I am totally in awe of all the work she put into it. She made her a quiet book for church and it is absolutely amazing!! I am totally in love with it...oh and Darcy is too. :) I'm having a hard time letting Darcy play with it because I just can't stand the thought of it being ruined. Thank you soo much Haley!

The main reason my family chose this particular week to come was so we could all go to Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in Washington DC on 8-28. It was amazing how many people were there! I just looked up how many people were there and I found an estimate of 300,000 but I'm pretty sure Glenn Beck said there were over 500,000 people there. Either way, it was a lot. It was so awesome to be a part of that sea of people all there to take a stand. We thought Glenn Beck did a really great job of bringing people of so many different religions and backgrounds together. I actually kind of thought it might be a huge majority of Mormons, but it really wasn't at all. I feel so strongly about standing up for what you believe in, and I am so happy I got to go be a part of something as major as that. I am proud to be an American. I am so grateful for our Founding Fathers who were men of faith and honor and for the freedoms we enjoy in this country. I pray that we can restore honor to our government and remain a free people.

Darcy getting her birthday present from Haley.
The whole crowd was excited to play with the quiet book!






Darcy playing with her new book.
We got to DC the day before the rally so we got to go see the temple there. It is so gorgeous. Darcy loved running around the temple grounds.
A family picture in front of the temple.

Haley suggested we swing Darcy while we walked so we could go a little faster. She loved it!
A family picture at the rally. Haley found a pattern on a blog to make these flag shirts. It ended up being quite the project to get them all made, but it ended up being worth it. We had people come film us and take pictures of us a lot. We were so popular! :)
A sisters picture at the rally. It was SO hot!
Look at all the people!
After the rally. I was trying to get a picture of the sea of people walking away.
After the rally most of my family went to the Holocaust Museum. I had already been and didn't think I could handle it again at this point, so a few of us (with the little kids) went over to the Natural History Museum.
Ashley at the Museum of Natural History.