Saturday, April 17, 2010

Camping at Antelope Island











We volunteered for the U of U's Bennion center to build fences surrounding the stream on Antelope Island to help protect it from the biffalo so that it can run down to their troughs below rather than getting trampled into swamp before making it down. It was fun and Nicolle has a mighty hammer swing when it come to driving the long nails to keep the posts in place.
The kids got to ride horses, fly a kite, and their favorite play outside for hours and hours. Johnathan learned that you hold a flashlight to the ground at night when walking, not up to your face like he thought. Colette learned that the bathrooms are farther away when you go camping. Neither one of them wanted to go to sleep at night, they were too excited about the tent, the flashlights, and their new friends (or the possibility of going and playing with more new friends they hadn't met yet).

Natural History Museum









We decided to ride the bus to the museum, bt I missed it because I forgot to bring the camera and when I went back to the house to get it the bus came. So I rode my bike instead while Nicolle and the kids took the bus.
The kids especially loved doing puppet shows, but since we only took video of that you'll have to watch it another time.

Hogle Zoo

Johnathan loves elephants, so we spend a lot of time when we go to the zoo at the elephant area.


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Great Outdoors

We went to California again . . . it was only about 60 degrees but the kids wanted to play at the beach anyway . . . they love the ocean!

Johnathan tried his hand at tree climbing at the park the other day . . .

Seaworld animals in SLC




We took the kids to see some visiting Seaworld animals here in Salt Lake . . . can't wait to go back to San Diego!

Grandma Gene's Birthday



Colette absolutely loves playing Wii sports games. She's pretty good at Tennis . . .

Easter at the Bennions










Pictures

We decorated Easter eggs . . .

Johnathan and Kjersten . . . and our new bike trailer (we traded in the "Fur Real Pony" at the local Kid-2-Kid store . . .
Nicolle went with Kjersten to L.A. for a few days, they had a great time but didn't take many pictures . . . I thought this one was pretty cool . . .