White House Easter Egg Roll 2008

I don't know what I was thinking!  I should have taken like 50 more pictures of the kids in front of the White House.  How cool is that?!

THIS IS THE COOLEST THING WE HAVE EVER DONE!!!  (and we've done some pretty cool things)

The morning started off with FREE breakfast.  It was a good breakfast too!  Fruit, juice, breakfast burritos, and free Starbucks.

After we ate- we went to our assigned tent, to wait for our entry time.  The excitement I felt, borders on ridiculous!  In fact I'm excited just thinking about it!  

The security was crazy!  They went through our bag, and our stroller.  They even checked the baby!  They checked all of our electronics, and took a picture with my camera to make sure it was real.  The place was crawling with police, secret service, and sharp shooters on the roof.

There were characters walking around EVERYWHERE.  

They were kinda silly- and the girls were a little old for most of them- but it was still fun.

I have never seen so many free things in all of my life.  In fact- I don't think there was a thing you could buy.  They gave the kids a T-shirt so that they could paint on a giant canvas.

There were about 25 people doing face painting...

That was a huge hit!

Crew isn't a big fan of grass.

Elle could have painted all day!  There was a photographer who took about a million pictures of her.  I wonder where those will end up?

This photographer took Pypers picture for the newspaper.  I didn't get NEAR enough pictures.  There were so many cool people there.  Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, and Jenna Bush, read stories to the kids.  Along with Kyle Massey from Cory in the House.  President Bush spoke, and rang the bell to start the event.  Troy Aikman read stories as well.  The list goes on and on.  It was just a feel good kinda thing.  I am so glad that we were able to go.  I have to wonder- in today's world- how much longer they will have this historical event.  I'm sure it's a legistical nightmere!