Sacramento!

Jake's oldest sister, Crystal and her family, live in Sacrament. We have never been to visit so we decided to start our Spring Break off with a bang and go on a little vacation.
I don't have any pics of our Saturday because I forgot the camera. But, on Saturday we went to the Folsom Temple and walked around the outside with the kids, beautiful! Then we went to the Fish Hatchery and fed the fish, that was great fun!!!

The boys played dress up on Friday night after dinner. Ashton had so much fun!!!

Ashton and Curtis had matching Cars jammies. How fun to wear matching!

Sierra was attached to Kelly's hip the whole weekend. I never saw her. They loved making these bead things and playing Rock Star. On Monday night before FHE they put on a show for us in Kelly's room and then we all voted (like American Idol) who was the best. Kelly had the giggles, Sierra won! :)On Sunday, Aunt Crystal was so nice and let the boy's help her make Chocolate Chip cookies. We enjoyed them the rest of the visit, the boy's did a great job!

All the kids were on the trampoline most of the time that we were hanging out at home. Even when it was freezing outside they would be out there in t-shirts. Jake was so fun, he would go out and jump with them and they loved it.

On Monday Crystal took us to see the Capital Building. Those tiny people are Crystal, Sierra, Kelly, Bryce, and Curtis standing in front.
There is a hallway with all the counties of California and Sierra had her very own County. :)

WE LOVE L.A.!!!
(the kids were not happy taking this picture, we took Ashton from his buddies and Sierra from Kelly)

Inside of the dome that you see from the outside. Beautiful!

All of the doors were original from the time it was completed in 1874. It took 14 years to build this amazing building.

"Honest Abe" watches over our State Assembly.
State Assembly Room. This room is green because green was a color of the common man. The desks and chairs are original from the time period.

George Washington watches over the Senate.
This is the room for the Senate. It is red because red is a color of royalty and when George Washington was first President people wanted to call him King and he would say I'm not your King I'm your President.
The kids were troopers. They did not love this but they would look and listen. We are sitting in the balcony where the public can come and watch our Legislators and Senators make decisions for our State.

Then we went to the Train Museum in Old Sacramento.

Ashton loves Trains.
Curtis was asking the manikin for a ticket to ride the train. :)
Ashton would not look at the camera, he couldn't take his eyes off all the trains.
This train we are standing in moved a bit simulating how it must have felt for people walking and sleeping in a moving train.
This was the Dining Car and this man was showing us with the bells how they used to tell passengers that it was meal time before the public address systems that we have now. He allowed the kids to try.

They used real China at meal time on these dining cars and they had displayed all the different patterns they would use and they were beautiful.
Then we went upstairs and they had all the toy trains for the kids to play with. Ashton was in heaven, he loves Thomas!

Thanks Coppin family for a GREAT weekend!