The Living Planet Aquarium!

When we moved up to the Salt Lake area we told the kids if they could be good sports with the move we would visit the Living Planet Aquarium. The kids have been great sports with the move! They haven't complained, they have been awesome! What great troopers!

Sharks! Watch out! 
 

Little Sweetie enjoying seeing all the fish! 

I loved watching the fish and sharks swim all around us in the big shark tank! 

Mara climbing through the tunnel! 

Peek-a-boo Ty and Caleb! 

I don't know why Ty will always find something to climb on--even a killer whale! 
 

Fun watching the penguins! 

The kids loved climbing on the rope bridge! 
 

Ty thought it was awesome and kept going back for more!
 

Caleb was really good at crossing the bridge also!!

Check out those big huge fish! 

Scary! Yikes! That is one big snake!

Tree House Museum!

One of the places we are most excited to visit when we move up near Ogden is the Tree House Museum. One day we drove up and had lunch in the park with Nate and then spent the rest of the day playing at the museum. There are so may fun things to explore here. The kids can't wait to go back!

Ty and Caleb loved playing the life-size chest game!

Queen Mara all dressed up ready to rule to world!

Cute loves on the firetruck!

Carder loved playing with all the toys and fake food!

It was quite difficult to keep all the plastic food out of his mouth!

All the kids participated in the cute play, even Carder dressed up and was the mouse!

My cute firefighters ready for any adventure!

OUCH!!

One day we were all riding our bikes down to the library when all of a sudden Ty decides to do a quick pop-a-wheelie when CRASH he fell off his bike and smacked his face on the sidewalk. Blood was pouring everywhere. One look and I knew we would not be going to the library for our fieldtrip but we were headed to the ER instead! I'm surprised in a such a traumatic experience I could stay so calm and not freak out and lose it! We quickly walked our bikes back to Mimi's house, luckily we weren't to far away. Mimi watched the kids and I drove Ty to the ER. There is nothing worse than watching your child suffer and go through so much pain and not be able to do anything but hold his hand. It was so sad! I felt so bad for Ty. He was a trooper and very brave. They had to stitch up his lip on the inside. I think he had 4 stitches on his upper lip. Then they super-glued the outside top lip. He had a mighty bad road-rash on his nose and chin.

 The swelling was so awful. I was really worried it would stay like this and he would have permanent damage. 

 

So, so sad! This broke my heart. I felt so helpless not being able to help Ty. All I could so was hold his hand and try to comfort him. 

Poor kid! This was a couple days after the accident. He still had a lot of swelling. After a week or so the swelling went down. His road rash went away and really it is almost 100% back to normal! He has a little bit of scar on his top lip but it isn't to bad! 

Ty's sweet Auntie Chel came to visit and brought little Lincoln. That helped cheer up Ty! Ty loved seeing Link and here they are with their robot they made together out of blocks! 

Trip to Boise!

A few days after we returned home from our camping trip from Moab we unpacked the car only to pack it again! This time our destination was Boise Idaho! Nate had training all week for work and we decided it would be more fun to go with him. Since we still didn't have a house to move into we might as well live it up!

The first day of our vacation we went to the Discovery Center! It was a great place to explore and play! When we got there we were swarmed by 100 kids on field trips. I thought maybe this wasn't such a good idea! But shortly after all the kids went home for lunch and we had the discovery center to ourselves!

Carder could have played in the grocery store all day long! He loved playing with all the fake food!

Miss Mara the checker! She said she might like to do this for real wen she grows up!

Ty is making the world's biggest bubble!

Caleb is learning how to use the pulley-system! He is actually pulling himself up in the swing! 

This might have been the kids' favorite thing at the Discovery Center! 

The thing that makes this place so cool is it is a great science learning center! He we are in a room full of mirrors learning about reflections! 

Here's Mara learning about airflow! The ball is actually suspended in the air!

Check out that tower of blocks! Pretty amazing! Ty loves to build!

Good job Carder! Good building towers!

It's always sad when it is time to go home especially when mom won't buy anything from the gift shop! What a sad sad face!

We walked across the bridge to a park near by and had a picnic after the discovery center.

What a silly kid sticking out his tongue! Glad he is smiling again!

Mara trying to fit in the baby swing!! But she is much too big!

The park had tons of little fuzzy baby geese!

After daddy gets out of his training we liked to grab a bite to eat and then head somewhere fun. He we are at the Ann Morrison Park watching all the geese near the river!

Too bad we didn't have any bread to feed the geese! We especially loved the baby geese!

The next day we went to an indoor trampoline place! The kids jumped their little hearts out! They loved it! 

They had a foam pit that you could jump into! 

The kids pretended they were swimming in the ocean of foam blocks!

We had never seen so many trampolines in one place before! It was amazing!

They had some balls for dodge ball on the tramps. We played ball tag...so fun! 

This is what happens when we have too much fun playing a the trampoline place! We all come back to the hotel room and take a long nap!

One of the kids' (and daddy's) favorite shows is Man vs. Food! They love watching all the cool places to eat around the nation and watching the star of the show pig-out and eat as much food as he can. Well we so happen to visit not one but three of the places from Man vs. Food!! This was Big Judd's! This was the biggest 3+lb hamburger! We split it and it fed most of our family!

The kids' very favorite part of the trip was of course the swimming pool! I think we swam at least once a day!

The pool water was awfully chilly so the kids had to warm up in the hot tub!

What a cute little swimmer! He is quite the little fish!

Cannon-ball!! No fear here!

Ty just can't get enough swimming! It doesn't matter how cold the water is! He LOVES swimming!

And this little swimmer doesn't mind just sitting by the pool watching everyone else jump in! He likes the warmer water not so much the cold water! 

 And this is what happens when we play too hard! They are just too tired! We sleep the rest of the afternoon!