Cherry Blossoms at the Capital

After visiting my sister and her kiddos, the boys and I took advantage of a beautiful, sunny day and headed to the capital buildings to check out the cherry trees. Cherry blossoms are one of my favorite things in the world. During my four years of college in Salem, I spent countless hours down at the capital under the cherry trees. Ben and I went on many dates there as well. It is a very nostalgic place for me and I was excited to introduce Sammy and Seth to it! Lots of people noticed that the boys were twins, because they both picked out red and black outfits for the day. When they are matching (they pick out their own clothes, so it’s not very often) we stick out like a sore thumb and get lots of twin questions! (Sam, Seth) The boys were very disgruntled because they couldn’t go closer to the fountains to see if there was money at the bottom. A picture of heaven Sam, Seth Ben and I have an engagement picture on this exact same bench…major nostalgia Handsome boys and beautiful trees (Seth, Sam) The boys have been building all their blocks with statues at top now. I was desperate to get a picture of me and the boys, but always hate asking. So, of course, I waited until the boys were tired of pictures at the end of the afternoon and got up the guts to ask a stranger. As you can tell, Seth really didn’t trust her. He refused to even crack a smile even when I was tickling him. Sigh. The only thing that would have made this afternoon better (except to have Seth actually smile in the picture) would be to have Benji with us! We missed him!