Saturday adventure Oct 18 Tracy Aviary

Out of order pic as we were leaving along the pond. Liam got this spinning super fast!

We have a tricky time doing Saturday adventures lately for a VARIETY of reasons, but finally there was some nice weather so we had some discount and free passes to Tracy Aviary. I really like this place and some of the leaves around the aviary were very pretty. This spinning thing at the front is always fun.

Checking out all the ducks in the duck pond.

This was a new Eagle exhibit but also had the pelicans on the other side.

Four kid token picture.

This birds' species is VERY very old. They are cool to watch.

Seeing all the bird show stars outside the bird show.

Playing in the open area. 

I love the flamingos. They even had baby flamingos!

We barely made it in time for the indoor bird show. I always find these shows SO interesting because they give you so many crazy bird facts. 

Evelyn took a lot of these pictures because she wanted to get up close. This one was very cool I thought.

Every time they flew over your head you felt a "swoosh". 

Some kids chose to get Dole whip.

I love the owl forest. Lots of fall in here. 

Proof I was there. 

I was sad they don't have condors anymore :( not sure what happened to them, but they have cool storks in that enclosure now. 

More playtime.

It was such a beautiful morning! We spent a little over a couple of hours there, and despite some whining, had a good time.
 

Halloween art and pumpkin carving, Evelyn's hike to Lisa Falls, and other random pics

We did a "bigger" family movie night as part of fall break on the Friday night. Since Ryan was at work, we all attempted to make the popcorn. It was a little chaotic ha ha. 

The girls the last week or so have been doing some puzzling.

Adeline drew this cute Halloween scene at school.

For youth night, Collin and I carved pumpkins. Liam went to the final varsity FB game so he wasn't there.

Mine was very weird looking.

Also woke up to this on Thursday of fall break. SNOW in the mountains. It has mostly since melted, but still!

More puzzling with friends.

Adeline's art class last week drew beta fish in a bag. This was all done freehand so I thought she did a great job!

 

And Evelyn's friend Anika invited her on Friday of fall break to hike up to Lisa Falls with her activity days group. She had a great time, even though she told me the hike was super short :) she is a big hiker so I was so touched she got invited and the weather had finally stopped raining!

Chili cook off and Liam's last football game as a freshman

Cute Evelyn and Ondine at the picture spot for the chili cook-off. 

Liam's last game was a home game vs. Hunter. Due to some stomach pain and other issues, Liam wasn't able to play much of the game so that was a very big bummer for me. 

They had some good moments and not so good moments. They ended up losing 14-13. Overall, it has been a very fun first football season for Liam and he grew so much in so many ways. I hope he realizes how much he has grown and his team grew together and how fun it was to watch him play. It will be weird after 6 months of intense football to now not have it for awhile. 

 

Saturday backup-adventure Halloween/Christmas decor at Lowe's

I feel like we are doing really good if we get even two Saturday adventures a month lately. It seems like we are all going in different directions and it's tricky. Last Saturday, we were going to go to Rush Funplex to use our get out pass for free bowling but when we got there, I realized they changed it so now you can't do Saturdays anymore ;( so rather than just go directly home, Ryan suggested going across the street to Lowe's and look at holiday decor. So we did. This Nightmare before Christmas guy had fun sayings as you walk by. 

These guys were very creepy. 

And we looked at the silly walk around and sing plushies. I love Liam's face in this ha ha.

Adeline loved this little deer that talked.

Everyone had fun and it was the most simple adventure ever ha ha.