So while the boys and Ryan went to TopGolf, the girls and I went to the Natural History Museum. I had been hearing about this bug exhibit for several weeks now and the day we went was the very last day it would be open. It was VERY cool. In fact, I would say it was one of the best, if not the best, traveling exhibit in all the times we have gone there, at least recently. Adeline is playing a game to see if you can be as fast at getting bugs as an orchid mantis. She didn't get that fast, but she did get up to spider level at 42 per minute! She was very fast!Learning about bugs. Here we are in the SUPER huge orchid mantis exhibit. They had several different ones of these and they were really cool. Inside the orchid mantis with her prey. The Japanese bee display.
So many cool things. This was another of the huge displays inside a huge grass like area. The pictures are hard to tell and don't do it justice, but they were really cool.
Slide time, these got blurry :(
This was CRAZIEST thing I learned there about the jewel wasp. What they do to the prey and how they continue the species onward. NUTSO!
Trying to be a jewel wasp and do "brain surgery" on a cockroach prey.
Life cycle of trees.
Water area.
Always fun to revisit how the dinosaurs died in the quarry.
And weaving the basket. And the hurricane building.
Adeline spent some of her own money on this little dinosaur I let her get. She was SO excited about him! It was a fun day! SO glad we went to the bug exhibit, it was very very cool.
9/9/26
9/8/26
Wednesday night family adventure, mini golf and shakes, and my fancy hair salon
Last week, the kids didn't have Wednesday youth night due to leader meetings so we used our get out pass to go on a later night adventure mini golfing at the Rush Funplex. It was one of the less dramatic mini golf times in our family and that is saying something!
Liam was trying to put in weird silly ways. We also got In n Out strawberry shakes after. It was a fun night. And Adeline did my fancy hair in "Evelyn's" hair salon.
Liam was trying to put in weird silly ways. We also got In n Out strawberry shakes after. It was a fun night. And Adeline did my fancy hair in "Evelyn's" hair salon.
Evelyn's hair salon
Since we got Evelyn's dresser put on, sometimes Evelyn does her hair salon. Here is after she brushed people's hair out.
Fun matchies for church.More updating the hair salon.
Fun matchies for church.More updating the hair salon.
9/3/26
Evelyn's 12th birthday!
Evelyn is ALWAYS so excited for her birthday! Out of order pic of her eating her ice cream :)
In birthday tradition, she requested regular pancakes with caramel, chocolate sauce, and sprinkles with squirty whipped cream. Opening Adeline's present.
Grandma and Grandpa came down and she and I went on a special "birthday" bowling date with them. It was fun to have some one on one time with just her. Made it a completely different experience.
Ryan and I got her her own dresser for her birthday gift. She was SO SO happy to have her OWN dresser space. She requested in n out for dinner.
Singing the happy birthday with ice cream and her treat request, chocolate covered strawberries from Zupas.
Happy birthday Evelyn! You are getting to be such a fun, dramatic, creative, lovely young woman!
In birthday tradition, she requested regular pancakes with caramel, chocolate sauce, and sprinkles with squirty whipped cream. Opening Adeline's present.
Grandma and Grandpa came down and she and I went on a special "birthday" bowling date with them. It was fun to have some one on one time with just her. Made it a completely different experience.
Ryan and I got her her own dresser for her birthday gift. She was SO SO happy to have her OWN dresser space. She requested in n out for dinner.
Singing the happy birthday with ice cream and her treat request, chocolate covered strawberries from Zupas.
Happy birthday Evelyn! You are getting to be such a fun, dramatic, creative, lovely young woman!
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