The Rees Family: 2012 White House Egg Roll

White house Egg roll 2012

Have I said before that there is so much to do out here? Well a friend of mine Joanna knows everything about everything. She knows when all the good activities are happening. She lives out here she is on our ward and she is just awesome. She shared a link for the white house egg roll lottery. You fill out an application online. It is a lottery system so you are notified if you were selected. Well well well we were selected to go. I was so so so excited. I was excited I was telling my friends and some of them had said that they had filled the application out this year and previous years and hadn't gotten picked. I was so so grateful to have luck on our side and we could go.

Well our time slot was 7:30-9:30am. So we got up super early, got all ready, and drove to DC. It was awesome there was no traffic that early in the morning. We parked and started heading over to the white house. We checked our tickets through, then went through security and then we followed the line and the the next thing I know we are entering the gates of the white house lawn. As we were walking onto the lawn we passed the security for the celebrities and important people. We saw chyna from nickelodeon walk by us. Brooklyn was so excited.

As you walk onto the lawn there are any character you can think of. We saw all the PBS characters, the chipmunks, power rangers, sponge bob, a princess, Dora, Diego, some other nickelodeon characters, and many more. There are different activities to do on the lawn. There is an obstacle course, story time with characters, picture taking, and the famous egg roll with a wooden spoon. On the other side of the lawn there is more activities to do with the first Lady's campaign for healthy eating.
We had story time with Mr Gordon from sesame street and abby-ca-dabby. We then went to do the egg roll, then the obstacle course. Brooklyn went to story time with one of her favorite people from a nickelodeon show. Her name is Cecilie from shake it up. A.K.A Bella thorne. Brooklyn was right on the front row and answered some questions she asked. She was so excited. We headed over to the other side of the lawn we only had about 20 minutes left in our time slot. We went to the PAAS station and decorated and egg and we saw Al Rocker. They had some really fun activities like make your own jump rope, play tennis with characters, and different booths on growing your own garden and healthy eating.

As we left the event the kids were given a wooden egg with the president, first Lady's signatures and a symbol on the egg for the 2012 White house egg roll.
It was one of the neatest experiences I have ever had. To be 5 feet away from the white house. I kept thinking I wonder who is looking out at the windows at us? It was such a fun experience to be able to take the kids. To have them be at ages were they will remember it. I look back through the pictures and it doesn't even skim the awesomeness it. It was a great experience that I will ever be grateful for.