Playing at the Splash Park

Can I catch the water

 look at me run!

 just falling from the bucket

 can I plug the hole???

 quick catch the water!

 standing in a shower

 so much fun

 

 just a really cute picture

 gotta shoot the water

 moving quick from the water

 gotta move so quick

warming up now and looking cute

Swimming with Aunt Mel, Lance, Tiff, and their Kids

Last night we spent the evening with some long time friends of ours. Fran, used to work with Lance years ago in Washington and we have kept in contact since then.

Jade was thrilled (thrilled barely describes her excitment) to learn that Lance and Tiff are related to Marvin Hardy of Balloon Magic. She and Lance spent some time twisting balloons and having so much fun. She got some free balloon twisting lessoons and has some Balloon Magic books coming to her that will be signed by Marvin Hardy. In addition to that they loaded her up with balloons. Talk about a very happy girl. After balloon twisting, holding their lizzards, and dinner, we went swimming.

Looking into the Past

Yesterday we explored Thanksgiving Point and stayed within the dinosaur bones museum. The kids had fun learning about motion, erosion, dinosaurs, and fossils.

Jairon: Motion Notion was awesome because everything moved.

Chantelle: I loved all the dinosaurs and the very big dinosaur. Playing in the water was very fun too. It looked like the big shark was about to eat me.



 ancient style tree

 Fossils making a cool picture

 look at that snail

 pretending to be dionsaurs

 All the kids on the scale

 The Elephant Bird, hunted by the Haus Eagle

 Playing in the erosion tables

Corbyn: Erosion table, because erosion is part of the earth and I could build and create thing then watch the water erode away what I made.

Giant shark big enough to eat all the kids

Zach: I like the giant shark it had many rows of teeth. The t-rex and giant pterodactyl. Everything was just cool.



Ft Bridger, WY

Fort Bridger was an amazing place to visit and the kids had so much fun that pulling them away was difficult. As we learned this historical place began as a trading post in 1843 Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez. The trading post traded with emigrants and Indians.

Later this location became a military base, then a hotel, and now a historal site.

The kids not only loved visiting Ft Bridger because of the military history, but because of the Mormon Pioneer hisotry as well. What a trip for them!

For more information about Ft Bridger see http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-fortbridger.html

 cooks wagon

 plow LOL they could not make it move

 they got to see a real sundial

 aspen trees

 trying to push a handcart

 old nurse and doctor equipment

 waiting to try horehound candy real pioneer candy they LOVED it. Even better is Nana has a recipe for it

 A covered wagon just missing the cover

 look at this bathtub

 ceramic covered dishes

coal fernis 

look at this newspaper!