Isaac

August 24th, 2016

Free Library of Philadelphia

We stopped by to see the exhibit in the rare book section...

August 24th, 2016

The Franklin Institute

After a ton of fun stops, this was a bit overcrowded. But...

August 24th, 2016

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

This dinosaur museum was a ton of fun. After looking at...

August 24th, 2016

Liberty Bell

To start with, it was big! It had a couple cracks on it,...

August 23rd, 2016

Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum

This was a fun children’s museum. There was a log...

June 9th, 2016

Tinker Creek Greenway

Family geocaching day! This happened to be the anniversary...

May 11th, 2016

Greensboro Science Center

We made a stop on the way home from the beach. The museum...

March 22nd, 2016

Virginia Civil War 150 HistoryMobile

A big truck with a Civil War museum inside of it parked...

March 7th, 2016

Brigham Young Monument

This big statue was made for the World’s Fair. It...

March 7th, 2016

Assembly Hall

The Assembly Hall was used in the same way we use a modern...

March 7th, 2016

Welfare Square

A sister missionary from Mexico and a sister missionary...

March 6th, 2016

This Is The Place Heritage Park

It was raining. I ran into the gift shop with Anna so get...

March 5th, 2016

Bountiful Utah Temple

Yet another temple on this trip. We got out of the car and...

March 5th, 2016

Antelope Island State Park

We saw both antelope and buffalo at this state park. We...

March 5th, 2016

Ogden Utah Temple

It was a beautiful day so we got out and enjoyed the...

March 5th, 2016

Hill Aerospace Museum

The Hill Air Force Base has a neat museum full of...

March 4th, 2016

The Tabernacle on Temple Square

This is the building where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir...

March 4th, 2016

Eagle Gate Monument

For some reason there is an Eagle straddling the road in...

March 4th, 2016

Discovery Gateway

The kids played for a few hours at this children’s...

March 4th, 2016

Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point

After several awesome Thanksgiving Point visits, we had...

March 4th, 2016

Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point

This was probably Isaac’s favorite stop. He rode a...

March 3rd, 2016

Joseph Smith Memorial Building

There was a cool genealogy center in the basement of this...

March 3rd, 2016

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Conference Center

This is where the church meets twice a year for General...

March 3rd, 2016

Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple

This was a beautiful temple, but we just drove by.

March 3rd, 2016

BYU Museum of Paleontology

This odd little museum was unmanned and open to the...

March 3rd, 2016

Provo Temple

This is the temple Jacob went to while in the MTC. We ran...

March 3rd, 2016

Provo City Center Temple

We were able to tour the Provo City Center Temple before...

March 2nd, 2016

Museum of Natural Curiosity

The kids spent SO much time at this museum. It was easily...

March 2nd, 2016

Jordan River Temple

This is the temple Jacob used to go to on his mission. It...

March 2nd, 2016

Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple

This temple wasn’t around when Jacob was on his...

March 2nd, 2016

Draper Utah Temple

The stake center on the same property as this temple was...

March 2nd, 2016

Salt Lake Temple

Our first stop on our family SLC trip was the Salt Lake...

March 2nd, 2016

Church History Museum

Dad did a survey for a new part of the museum. In...

January 6th, 2016

Virginia Museum of Natural History

Our ATSC membership brought us to this out of the way...

October 30th, 2015

Red Bank Sports Complex

After lunch, the whole family met up with the Allreds and...

October 15th, 2015

Amazement Square

Becca and the kids wound up in Lynchburg after having to...

September 30th, 2015

Longwood Park

Becca and the kids enjoyed a picnic lunch and day at the...

September 20th, 2015

Wayne National Forest

Our stop on the way home from Ohio to stretch our legs was...

September 19th, 2015

Boonshoft Museum

Mom was wary of travelling all the way to Dayton to go to...

September 19th, 2015

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

This is one big zoo. There are different sections for most...

September 19th, 2015

Columbus Ohio Temple

Becca’s best friend from college married her eternal...

September 18th, 2015

Longaberger Basket Home Office

Jacob likes to take his family on the craziest of...

September 18th, 2015

Clay Center’s Avampato Discovery Museum

We picnicked outside this little museum on our way to...

August 20th, 2015

Museum of Life and Science

They had lots of fun boats there. We went on a long long...

August 19th, 2015

Marbles Kid’s Museum

We played a fun puppet show. We loved that whole museum....

August 18th, 2015

Mill Mountain Zoo

I loved riding on the train. At the Zoo, we look at lots...

August 14th, 2015

Buchanan Playground

This park doesn’t have an official name. But when we...

August 8th, 2015

Metalmorphosis

We ran around at this odd broken sculpture. Anna really...

August 8th, 2015

Discovery Place

We played all morning with Grandma and Grandpa and then...

August 7th, 2015

Ray’s Splash Planet

In Charlotte, we met up with the Allreds to play in the...

August 4th, 2015

Green Hill Park

The kids had a playdate with some friends at this park....

August 2nd, 2015

Greenfield Recreation Park

The kids needed to stretch their legs so we hit up a play...

July 29th, 2015

Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem

Anna and Isaac had so much fun at this children’s...

July 28th, 2015

Science Museum of Western Virginia

We visited this museum a long time ago when it was...

July 25th, 2015

Elmwood Park

Becca and the kids hung out at the park while Jacob got...

July 11th, 2015

Manassas National Battlefield Park

Anna, Isaac, and Becca stopped by this battlefield in our...

July 2nd, 2015

Enchanted Rock State Natural Area

Wow was it hot. We’ve heard a lot about Enchanted...

July 2nd, 2015

Hill Country Science Mill

A new science museum opened up not far from home, so we...

January 27th, 2015

McKenna Children’s Museum

Anna met up with her friends at this children’s...

January 26th, 2015

Guadelupe River State Park

Anna talked us into a hike around a little bit but the...

January 19th, 2015

Memorial Park

Anna made a quick friend as usual. Isaac worked on...

January 19th, 2015

Amistad National Recreation Area

Passing by this large body of water that is shared...

January 19th, 2015

Seminole Canyon State Park

Seminole Canyon was a great pit stop for lunch! The views...

January 18th, 2015

September 11th Memorial – Alpine

On September 11, 2001, the groundbreaking ceremony for the...

January 18th, 2015

Kokernot Municipal Park

After church on our vacation in Alpine, we decided to...

January 17th, 2015

Marfa Lights Viewing Center

We visited the viewing center for the famous Marfa Lights....

January 17th, 2015

Davis Mountains State Park

Texas has dozens of state parks, and we love visiting...

January 17th, 2015

Jeff Davis County Park

We needed a break from the big attractions, so gave the...

January 17th, 2015

Tethered Aerostat Radar System

The US government has a bunch of giant blimps floating...

January 17th, 2015

Prada Marfa

We got a bit of culture by visiting an art exhibit called...

January 17th, 2015

Museum of the Big Bend

Despite the fact that Alpine is hours from Big Bend...

January 16th, 2015

Paisano Pete

Marketed as the world’s largest roadrunner, Paisano...

January 16th, 2015

South Llano River State Park

On our drive to Alpine we stopped at South Llano River...

December 31st, 2014

Congaree National Park

We all went for a hike in the national park on New...

December 29th, 2014

Columbia Museum of Art

Jacob’s parents took us to see the Norman Rockwell...

November 30th, 2014

Capitol Park

In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, we visited a city park where the...

November 30th, 2014

U.S. Space & Rocket Center

We enjoyed the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville...

November 29th, 2014

Gray Fossil Site

After visiting the Waco Mammoth Site, we got an itch to...

November 22nd, 2014

Liberty Enlightening the World

Birmingham has a huge replica of the Statue of Liberty. It...

November 22nd, 2014

Arsenal Park

We had fun running around Arsenal Park in Baton Rouge. We...

November 22nd, 2014

Capitol Park

Baton Rouge is home to the tallest state capitol building....

November 21st, 2014

Fire Museum of Texas

On our way to Virginia we stopped at the Fire Museum of...

November 9th, 2014

McKinney Falls State Park

We had bad luck at this park. The trail we wanted to go on...

November 9th, 2014

Mother Neff State Park

On our way home from Dallas, we drove a few minutes out of...

November 8th, 2014

Cedar Hill State Park

We made a brief visit to the Cedar Hill State Park with...

November 8th, 2014

SEA LIFE Aquarium

We went to Dallas to visit some friends, and went with...

November 7th, 2014

Byron Stewart Park

Our drive to Dallas was very long, so we stopped at a...

November 7th, 2014

Pedernales Falls State Park

We got a state park pass and hit up a few parks, starting...

October 26th, 2014

San Antonio Market Square

We met the Veit and Hollis families for dinner at Mi...

October 26th, 2014

Milam Square

We were meeting some family downtown and got there a...

October 22nd, 2014

Friedrich Wilderness Park

Anna is getting to be a really good hiker. We went several...

October 4th, 2014

Buchanan Fairgrounds

Anna, Isaac, and Becca took Auntie Rachel to the Mountain...

October 3rd, 2014

Troutville Park

Meme took Anna and Isaac to the playground. Isaac slept in...

October 2nd, 2014

The Homeplace

The Mikulas family has been enjoying the food at the...

September 28th, 2014

Sinkland Farms

Jonathan took us to one of his childhood traditions in...

September 24th, 2014

Espada Aqueduct

We went on a morning family trip and stumbled on...

August 28th, 2014

Waco Mammoth Site

We explored the Waco Mammoth Site together. It had a large...

August 27th, 2014

Half Price Books Flagship Store

Jacob likes to visit flagship stores. This one was a huge...

August 27th, 2014

Dallas Temple

We love stopping at the temple whenever we travel. It was...

August 27th, 2014

Klyde Warren Park

This park was awesome! Anna instantly made a friend and...

August 27th, 2014

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas has a great free art museum. Filled with...

August 27th, 2014

Texas Civil War Museum

We didn’t think Texas was very involved in the Civil...

August 26th, 2014

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

We weren’t allowed to take photos, but we still had...

August 26th, 2014

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

Anna got to be a cowgirl for a few minutes at the National...

August 26th, 2014

River Legacy Park

Anna loves a good park playground. Even at 10am it was...

August 25th, 2014

Richard Greene Linear Park

Our family loves parks. This park situated between a...

August 25th, 2014

Fort Worth Water Gardens

Wow this was awesome! We didn’t plan on going here,...

August 25th, 2014

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

We made a stop at the Lyndon B. Johnson National...

July 22nd, 2014

Cibolo Nature Center

The family had a nice time at the creek. Jacob worked on...

July 19th, 2014

Comanche Lookout Park

The family took a morning hike at Comanche Lookout Park....

July 15th, 2014

Landa Park

Anna, Becca, and Isaac had a bunch of fun playing at Landa...

July 5th, 2014

Phil Hardberger Park

Becca took us to an educational presentation on feral hogs...

June 30th, 2014

Booker T. Washington National Monument

Aunt Rachel took us to this national monument. It had...

June 23rd, 2014

Pink Cadillac Diner

The food was terrible but the atmosphere was fun. They had...

June 23rd, 2014

Natural Bridge Wax Museum

The Natural Bridge Wax Museum is closing down, so Aunt...

June 20th, 2014

Double-A Farms

Grandma and Grandpa Allred took us blueberry picking. Anna...

June 17th, 2014

SCE&G North Recreation Area

Grandma and Grandpa Allred took us to a lake to go...

June 12th, 2014

Stone Mountain

Grandma and Grandpa Allred took us to Stone Mountain. We...

June 12th, 2014

All Children’s Playground

Anna had fun playing for a few minutes at a playground...

June 12th, 2014

World of Coca-Cola

We went to the World of Coca-Cola with Grandma and Grandpa...

April 15th, 2014

Bullis County Park

Anna, Isaac, and Becca headed over to Bullis County Park...

November 30th, 2013

Eisenhower Park

October 13, 2014 – The weather was beautiful so the...

June 15th, 2013

Sunsphere

11/29/2014: We stopped by again on our way home from...

December 29th, 2012

EdVenture Children’s Museum

December 29, 2012 – Grandma and Grandpa Allred took...

February 11th, 2012

Riverbanks Zoo and Garden

Grandma and Grandpa Allred took us to the zoo. At the zoo...

July 3rd, 2011

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military...

July 2nd, 2011

King of Prussia Mall

King of Prussia Mall is the largest mall in America in...

August 22nd, 2009

US Mint Independence Mall

Becca and Jacob visited the mint and took pictures even...

July 31st, 2009

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

A museum with dinosaurs. EDIT 8/20/15: We visited this the...

January 2nd, 2009

Washington DC Temple

We got married at the Washington DC temple. It sits on a...