Natural History Museum of Utah

March 26

I helped with carpool for Zac's class when we went to Museum of Natural History. I'd never been there before. It was great! The kids loved it!

This was a cool ant hill.  It really was amazing to see the different things that the ants were doing, crawling over another, digging a new path, fighting.

They also had these fun scenes, with animals, plants and insects that are native to that environment. They had a wheel with pictures and information on each animal in the scene. The boys in my group had a great time finding each one. 

I thought this was really cool. Mostly, probably because I had a hard time with physical discomfort and I can't imagine what it was like to wear shoes like these in the extremely different seasons and rough terrain.

I loved this description of the area

They also had a really cool water table. It was a topographical map of Salt Lake and surrounding areas. It was closed in and you could control the amount of "rain" it got and see what would flood at certain water levels.

They also had another cool exhibit where you could build a tower and set an earthquake off and see what happens with different levels and types of movement of the plates. They also had a pad where you and anyone you want could jump and it would measure the seismic waves you created.

The picture doesn't do it justice, but these deep bright blue butterflies are beautiful.

It was great. I really love going on field trips with Zac's class. We also get to take Max and Enzo along so its really fun that we get to experience it all together and for free! Enzo was awesome. He just sat in the stroller the whole time. He is an observer so he loves to watch and take everything in.

Jon's Birthday!

March 26

What's this?

Jon has wanted a gas powered RC car forever, and he finally got one!

Its taken quite a bit to get it tuned right. But its been a fun project for him.

Carrot cake!

More Random

March 21

Last fall I took a cake decorating class with some friends. They like to do projects occasionally. And I "helped" them. I really only mixed color into the fondant and baked the tops tier. They are the masters :)  "We" made this for the Relief Society Birthday Dinner.

March 25

This is the train table at the bank. It was so weird when Enzo was over there playing. I just keep thinking he is a baby. In fact, I still call him "Baby". With my other boys I was in a hurry to get them to the next stage, but this time I'm like sooo down. I'm not worrying about exposing him to new things. He'll get it eventually. Anyway, I just couldn't believe he was big enough to being playing at the train table. 

Enzo is awesome in the mornings! So happy. He has now learned to push the buttons on the musical toy behind him. When I come in in the morning he pushes the buttons to turn the music on and starts to jump up and down.

Tissue Paper Easter Eggs

March 19

I saw these tissue paper eggs on pinterest a couple years ago and really wanted to make them. Things in  life were just too hectic and I wasn't able to get things together to make them. But this year I hosted a craft day with some friends. It was fun and easy to make these once I got all the supplies prepared.

A Couple Good Ones

March 16

Zac made this leprechaun trap. The sneaky little guy got away.

March 18

Zac reading Pete and Penny Pizza Puzzles. He really likes these books, there's little puzzles as he reads to solve the mystery.

Enzo's Birthday

March 16

Since Enzo's party was about a week before we decided to do have a little cake and open the presents that we got him on his birthday-or rather the next day I guess. I can't remember why? Jon probably had something going and couldn't be home that night.

We took a family walk to Days Market to get dinner, again-in the wagon, with the rock out (our new favorite around here).

We BBQed burgers and had angle food cake, strawberries and homemade whipped cream-soo good!!

I love the different facial expressions!

I don't remember why he's crying. But still very cute :)

Didn't last long though

Presents!

I love fisher price little people. They were one of my favorites growing up and when Zac was a baby I found a big city set at a second hand store. I didn't get it because I thought, we don't need it. About a week later, I decided I wanted it and luckily it was still there. Zac loved it and any kids that come over do it. 

I decided I wanted to get a Noah's ark set for Enzo. But as I was looking I realized that they are expensive, and don't offer many animals, and the animals did come are kind of ugly....anyway, I got on Ebay and found a bunch of set. Most of them had weird mixed sets. But I found one that had great animals and I found that I could buy a new set of animals to add on and none were repeats! yay! haha (I'm lame I know.) This is one of his favorite toys. Its been kind of a trick to make sure we don't lose each animal set. Oh, also the main set I bought only had Noah, I think older sets had his wife too, but they don't sell it like that anymore. I found his wife on Ebay and bought her separately. Noah needs his partner! I know, boring for all those reading, but it was a great find for me. Good thing I don't have girls, otherwise getting toy sets would be insane for that....

Walking to Days

March 15

I felt like getting out and decided to take the wagon for a spin. We headed to Days to get stuff for dinner. It's just around the corner and the boys are very excited for when the snow cone shack opens!

Oh, and Zac doing his homework