Natural History Museum visit

Recently I found out we could use our ZAP tickets we got for spring break (hello virus shut down) up until mid December of this year. So I took advantage and we went last Friday. Some of our favorite things were closed due to covid, but we still had lots of fun.

Learning about Native Americans on the 5th floor.

Watching the ant hill.

Playing I spy with the taxidermy area.

Seeing the amount of pressure we can jump with.

Snack break.It was actually hardly anyone there for quite awhile.

This was a new traveling exhibit, and my favorite part. It was antarctic dinosaurs. I wish I could have read all the info about it. My kids don't always do tons of reading. But this was a fun interactive area where you could try and "survive" an expedition.

Digging out the fossils.

Flooding the Salt Lake Valley.

My kids have always loved this glass floor....and little ones are always kind of nervous with it.

Our yearly "infamous" big dino footprint picture, minus the footprint which wasn't on display today.

This was the boys' favorite part. An interactive game where you built a city and area and saw how much climate change you could handle or cause. They really got into it.

Adeline didn't really like that so we played the scientist quiz about 50 times :) she always wanted to be a paleontologist :)
 

The first week of November and our snow play

Due to some motor issues and not liking footie pajamas for several years, Evelyn has never had any. But I found some for her and she was SO excited.

Building a VERY tall flower land :)

For several days, "flowerland" lived in the hallway on the pink chair outside of Adeline's room :)

Digging sunflowers.

I can't remember now what this was, but Adeline had a very specific plan for each of these things. It was nutso.

Building a Sunday fire.

Getting ready to play in the snow.

It only took 45 minutes!

But they lasted about 45 minutes which was great!

Playing "lava" one afternoon.

Building an "ice castle" for her sheep. Can you see how he loves it mom?

One day I convinced Evelyn she could play "school" (her new favorite thing) with her pretend people. It was great!
 

Halloween night 2020 covid style

Here was Ryan's contraption to give the candy out safely.

Some of the zillions of pumpkins Ryan grew and carved.

Low key Halloween year. We weren't even sure if we were going to let the kids go until the night before. So the boys had to throw together costumes that they weren't super excited about, but hey, I did NOT want to spend 100 for 10 minutes.

Earlier in the day since it was 55 the girls got on swimsuits?!

Ryan also rigged up these poles for safety at houses. The girls got really TIRED holding them. Actually, most of our time, I was holding them.

Surprisingly, the kids only went trick or treating only for about an hour. I was so surprised. And this is the first year I just let them eat whatever they wanted. So the candy was all gone by Sunday night. It was kind of nice.

Trading still happens even in 2020.