Twin Falls

I am running around like crazy trying to get everything done for the B&G. Ugh!

Any way, here are Twin Falls pictures from the 7th. (I am only 10 days behind)

It was so incredibly windy, I didn't even have the kids get out of the car.
Then, after I declared this, EVERYONE had to go to the bathroom.
UGH!

So we went in another church building, where there was a funeral going on.
After that, we went off to look out point.

 The Snake River is incredible. It goes all the way through downtown IF and near our house,
and even past that. Evil Knievel did a jump here:

Crazy!

 It was even windier up at the look out.

Then we stopped for Costco Hotdogs, and drinks for lunch, and drove home.
We made it just in time for Emma S's birthday party, and Emma H's letters!

It was a fun weekend, and then I came home to a bunch of stuff to do.
Sigh, isn't that always the way?

Dragon Boat Festival

We woke up and got dressed and were out the door by 745am.

We parked the car, sunscreened up, and hitched a ride on a school bus to get to the Festival.

The kids were so excited. We have lived in Denver for years, but never even thought about going to the Dragon Boat Festival until this year. I don't know why, but I am glad that something told us to go this year.

 

 They were beautiful and we got to see them up close.

This was a festival, so there were a ton of stations and vendors to see.

This lady was writing kids names in Japanese!

There was even a parade of flags, and the walk of the dragon.

The girls (and mason) enjoyed the parasols.

They had these bubble tubes kids could ride in, but it was $15 a kid and $20 an adult, so we just watched.

We saw a few people we knew from Arvada wards, and a co-worker of Nathan's was racing with the boy scouts. This is when they decided that their company was going to do this next year.

We had Korean food for lunch (just N and V) I had packed lunches for the kids.

Then we came home and had sprinkler fun.

 Mason hated this!

 Scarlett has grown 2.9 inches so far this summer. Mostly in her legs.

It was an excellent day!

Museum of the Month: Children's Museum

The other day Nathan had to go to court to fight a ticket he didn't deserve. He won,by the way.

Since he got home right when the kids were walking home from school, we decided to hit up the Children's Museum!

The kids were pretty excited!

We loaded up the car and got there in record time.

We lined the kids up on the parking lines to go over the rules 

(which is what we always do when we go out in public)

Then it was time to go in!

Firetrucks first. I thought this was 5 year old Lucas at first. (But it is Scarlett)  :)

 There is Lucas.

He is getting too big for the dress up jackets. Haha. My kids love imaginary play.

Bridget is back there.

 Mace down the fire pole.

 Then we up to the train room. Mason's favorite place.

 While the littles were in the train room, the older kids were building stuff.

 Then we went to the kitchen/store.

 Nathan was assisting on the builds.

 After that,Lucas stayed in the building zone,and the rest of us went in the bubble lab.

Lab coats and goggles, even upside down were required.

 Then the kids went to the habitats and dressed as creatures. Here is B the model Beaver.

 Lucas was done with his build.

 In the Art Room! Look! I was there!

 We saved the best for last...the Ball Room.

Lucas is growing so much, this is his 3rd pair of shoes this year. He is now in a 4. 

For reference, Nathan wears a 9.5 and I wear an 11 in men (13 in womens)

 Before leaving we went to the space room.

 some of us were out of control in there...

 It was such a beautiful day, the babies led the way to the park where we played a little longer.

What a fun day.

I am glad we went in the afternoon.