St Louis

We drove to St Louis for Christmas this year. My poor mom was sick when we got there, but luckily got better before we left. My brother Alex flew in from Texas so we got to spend time with him as well. Because of school schedules, we didn't get there until the afternoon of the 23rd which didn't give us much time before Christmas, but we were able to stay for a little over a week and certainly packed a lot in.

Making gingerbread houses.

We did the Holiday in the Park at Six Flags in St Louis. It was fun, but the one in DC is much better.

Sawyer's different perspectives on the Ferris Wheel from "I can't look!" to "This is so much fun!"

We went to the kids favorite place, The Incredible Pizza Company. 

Sawyer loved air hockey.

After reading The Hungry Caterpillar to him one day I told him about the butterfly house at Nana's. We were in Maryland at the time and he got up and said "let's go see the butterflies at Nana's!" So it was on our to do list. I always enjoy going there.

We saw the movie Trolls

Jason and Alex took the girls to the city museum.

 The Science Center in St Louis is huge and it's free! You can't beat that. We hadn't been in a few years, so a few things had changed. There was so much to see.

 Digging for fossils

 There was a room just to make things and test them like a real scientist.

 Building the arch.

 We finished it, turned around to take a family photo (someone offered to take it for us) and right before we said cheese Sawyer knocked it down on all of us lol.

Bye St Louis!