Saturday adventure May 31, Syracuse Temple open house and Scarlet Pimpernell

We did a bigger Saturday adventure last Saturday, May 31st. This is out of order but the last thing we did was go see the Scarlet Pimpernell at the Spotlight Performing Arts Center in Centerville. It is just for kids and most of the kids in this production were 14-18. I had no idea how it would go over or if the girls would even follow it. I was pretty sure Collin and Liam would like it. It was GREAT! And they had reasonably priced snacks which was awesome. Liam said it was the best show he has seen. That is high praise from him. Granted, I knew he would like this one more than a disney one.But it was a very late night and we didn't get home until 11 :)

Our adventure started with going to the Syracuse Temple open house. It was the last day. It was a HUGE temple. It is the first temple with 2 baptistries. And it had my gorgeous sky blue color and my favorite bright dark green in the stained glass which I loved.

Making my kids all take a picture outside.

Making them walk around once :)

Ah! The pretty sky blue color!

Mostly I wanted to take the girls to see inside of another temple. I think the more you can see inside the better before you actually go do ordinances there. And this time you got to go through the dressing rooms which posed well for questions from them.

After we pounded food at In n Out. Yes, sometimes I plan to eat out. Even though my kids say we never do. And everybody (minus Ryan) got a shake. So sometimes you even get a TREAT in addition to eating out.

Then we went and killed about 30 minutes shopping at DI for Liam some new church shoes. And Adeline bought a wallet which she was so excited about! It was a good Saturday adventure!
 

Last couple of days of school celebrations and summer!

First day of official summer May 31st, was 95 degrees so we got out our little blue pool and slide and friends came over to play outside for a couple of hours.

The night before the last day of school we all walked to Arctic Circle to get a "last day before end of school day" treat. Adeline and Evelyn got the blue monster cone things.

Collin got moosetracks shake.

Liam blue monster shake.

Ryan and I got oreo. It was a fun little gathering. We went the Wednesday night before school got out because youth night got cancelled.

On the way home we played at the park for a little bit.

 

Memorial Day 2025 Wheeler Farm

Since we did a "bigger" adventure last Saturday with the hike, I promised my kids it would be more low key on Memorial Day and they could sleep in those that do :) So we went for a couple hours in the afternoon to Wheeler Farm. Here Evelyn is looking at the chickens.

Our picture by the wooden carvings.

And in the outhouse.

All four kids climbed up into the chicken coop.

Always fun to ride on the tractors.

Doing the "secret hike".

Token four kid picture in my favorite spot.
 

Saturday adventure May 24 Bear Canyon Suspension Bridge

Out of order pic looking back on the bridge from the opposite side.

This was a little hidden tunnel off a side shoot on the way back.

Memorial Day weekend, Liam ended up not having football, and Ryan ended up not having to go into work on the Saturday for sure, so I tried to find a different hike, but most still have tons of snow and would be a little too tricky. So we ended up doing the suspension bridge hike, which we have done last year around the same time, but it's a good one. I made my family all get up fairly early so we would beat traffic there, because last year, there were TONS on the trail and we had to park FOREVER away.

It was mostly overcast though, so not hot at all and no requiring of sunscreen!

There were some cool hangliders we saw on the trail.

Heading  up the trail.

Adeline wanted a picture by this sunflower.

Token all family picture before walking over the bridge.

Walking over the bridge.

Looking down at the river going down.

Heading back over.

Here is Liam thrilled to walk over ha ha.