The kids had a day off school so we went up to Thanksgiving Point and used our pass to check out "Farm Country". It was colder than I had anticipated, but the kids had a lot of fun seeing all the animals outside.
Our pass also gets the kids a pony ride while we are there.
Then we went inside a fun exhibit about farming where you can "harvest" the "food" from bushes and fields....
...put the food on the truck to go to market....
...and then sort the food at the Farmer's Market. The kids loved this exhibit and could have spent hours there if we hadn't had to stop for lunch.
Another day the sun came out and so they decided to dig a mud pit with their cousin.
After dealing with the results of the mud pit, I have now banned the 'mud pit' game and decided that we really need to buy a
swingset so they have something else to do back there. (These clothes did come clean, but it took a lot of soaking and two cycles in the washing machine, plus another empty cycle to clean all the dirt out of the washer.)
Grandma came to visit one weekend and we had a lot of fun with her, but this was the only picture we took. Both older kids got to show her their school classrooms, we went to the dinosaur museum, she and I took S-Boogie to the art museum, and then on Saturday we went to Salt Lake for a wedding and dinner in a fancy restaurant. I guess we were having too much fun to take any pictures!
The kids had a day off school so we went up to Thanksgiving Point and used our pass to check out "Farm Country". It was colder than I had anticipated, but the kids had a lot of fun seeing all the animals outside. 
Our pass also gets the kids a pony ride while we are there. 
Then we went inside a fun exhibit about farming where you can "harvest" the "food" from bushes and fields.... 
...put the food on the truck to go to market.... 
...and then sort the food at the Farmer's Market. The kids loved this exhibit and could have spent hours there if we hadn't had to stop for lunch. 
Another day the sun came out and so they decided to dig a mud pit with their cousin. 
After dealing with the results of the mud pit, I have now banned the 'mud pit' game and decided that we really need to buy a swingset so they have something else to do back there. (These clothes did come clean, but it took a lot of soaking and two cycles in the washing machine, plus another empty cycle to clean all the dirt out of the washer.) 
Grandma came to visit one weekend and we had a lot of fun with her, but this was the only picture we took. Both older kids got to show her their school classrooms, we went to the dinosaur museum, she and I took S-Boogie to the art museum, and then on Saturday we went to Salt Lake for a wedding and dinner in a fancy restaurant. I guess we were having too much fun to take any pictures!
2 comments:
What you need is a mud kitchen. The mud is then contained in the cooking area and the pots and pans, instead of being the surface on/in which they play. That's why you got to play with mud so often. It mostly got on your hands and a little on your shirt, but aprons will help that too.
Mud pits- so much fun for kids, not so fun for parents. :)
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