"Mom, I can't believe that I found a moon rock in our garage!" (That's what a trip to the planetarium will do for you!)
I already think Herriman is a pretty amazing place to live-- but it might just be perfect if this new Indian restaurant is good!
Spa science day! The girls mixed up the mask and insisted on the cucumbers.
Shakes and burgers at Iceburg for family night--yum!
Silly kids!
We listened to the Indian in the Cupboard on the way to and from the reunion. It's so fun that the kids are getting old enough to enjoy some of my favorite childhood classics!
We chose a new park to try and got there early to beat the heat. It was a perfect day for a picnic and play-- we even had the place to ourselves!
We went to the farm for a family night. The kids love feeding the goats and riding the ponies. There was even a sweet cow near the fence to pet!
Some of these cuties look more scared than others to be in jail!
First cucumber and bean harvest! And a few leftover peas too.
Luke has been working hard at improving his reading. We do a couple chapters out of the big yellow book each week. He is doing great!
This is the first year that I've put time and (some) money into out front yard. I love all the color! It's been nice to have a cheerful yard.
We had a fun water afternoon and each of the kids invited a friend or two. Perfect summertime activity!
Luke has been very interested in drawing sunflowers lately. He loves watching the ones in our backyard grow and can't wait for them to bloom!
The last week of July was our first free week-- no lessons, camps, family activities or anything! Kind of crazy to have it all so open. So we picked a few outings and activities and had a lot of playtime with friends.
We spent a fun morning at the Museum of Natural Curiosity with Amber, Samantha, and their kids. It was a little busy (and the rainforest was super busy!) but lots of fun. Evelyn got all dressed as a pirate by herself for a play.
Here's all the kiddos!
Evelyn and Paisley were a bit on the tired side at this point, but they were still enjoying the water table.
The kids spent a ton of time building structures and pushing the earthquake button to see them fall down. Their favorite setting was the most severe earthquake, of course. This museum has the coolest activities!
The was an incredible summer storm going on when we left-- we got so drenched on the way to the car. Amber and her kids came over for a bit afterward and Cora introduced them all to plays (mostly to grab grown-ups attention I think!).
Another day we fed the ducks (and Evelyn). It was a pretty day to do it too, nice and cool from rain the day before. We also went out to lunch with Kevin and saw his new office.
Making soap clouds has been on my idea list for a long time. If you put a bar of Ivory soap in the microwave you can watch it grow. It's pretty cool! We watched them grow, played with the funny textured soap,
crumbled them up into 'snow flakes', and then added a little food coloring and water, and pressed them into heart shape molds to make bath soaps.
Then we grew more soap clouds and used pipettes and food coloring water to paint them.
