California Science Center

Endeavor Spaceship

Quite a feat just getting it into this building through small neighborhoods

  

 The best part is it's free!

Science Museum

I love science museums.

Educational fun!

A tip for my Pullman friends: if you buy a family membership there, you also get in free to science museums around the country. Ours paid for itself a hundred times over. Memberships there are $70 (compared to $95 in Portland) so it's a better deal than many others. When we moved to OKC I used mine there at least once a week and their museum is huge!

I am glad we made it to the Portland OMSI, I wish we had more time to explore the city.

Water boats:

 Water breaks:

Water works:

Water is wet:

Flying balls:

Flying sand:/

Indoor sand:

Sitting in sand:

Working together:

 

Playing together:

 Being silly:

 Building cities: 

 Across from the city: 

 Appreciating photography from around the world

 Learning about the world we live in.

2 Dragons and a Banana

What a fun year for trick or treating! The weather was PERFECT. I wore a light sweater. We went trick or treating in our friend Jen's neighborhood. (We didn't want to give the child molesters a chance to see our children in our neighborhood. ha!:)) This was our first year of real trick or treating. Macey was going to be a kitty until Cody got his costume on. Then she wanted to be a dragon, which is perfect because Cody's fit her from last year! This is from our ward party (which was pure chaos for me, I think just because I always feel like I have 15 children swarming me and 15 bags to hold):

Here's the trick or treating gang. So cute!:

At each house Macey would hold out her bag (if she meandered up in time) and say "Trick or Treating." She was so tired, but candy is a strong motivator. Then she would quietly go to the stroller and hide to try to suck some candy out of its wrapper (cause they can't quite open them yet).

Cody and Olive chatted the whole time and had so much fun. Ben was even able to join us for the last half!

This sweet banana slept in her carseat in the stroller most of the time:

Afterward we had donuts and cider.Mmmm

Here's some random pics of our latest. Hanging out at home:

At the science museum, cute Cody; and Macey is behind the sign and not quite tall enough...

This is big for Cody. He has never wanted to do this before. It's driving a plane and he loves it!

This is where Mackayla sleeps. I am a little worried about switching her to her crib since she loves sleeping in this. But it is so nice for the spitting up, which she does a lot. Considerably less since I stopped drinking milk, the staple of my diet. Every once in a while I steal a huge swig because I LOVE it.

Yesterday I told Cody and Macey I saw a frog outside while I was pulling out these

What you can't see in that picture is hundreds, seriously, of tomatoes that have been uprooted because it's going to freeze tomorrow and I don't want to pull them out in the cold. We didn't get one ripe tomato because it was too hot in the summer and the blossoms would burn on the stem. Then once it was cool enough it was just too late. sigh. One day I will have my garden.

Back to the frog. Cody went out and grabbed it!

Some Random Adventures

I have been lazy about blogging lately, but I am in the [long] process of making a book of our blog too and I'm pretty excited to have that in print.

Cody has been taking swim lessons with a couple friends. I'm not sure he has actually learned anything, but he has had a lot of fun. He is trying to convince me he doesn't need a lifejacket to swim by himself anymore now.

Miss Macey has been so patient with it all. We go and watch in the 100 plus temps and she plays by the side and dips her feet in.

We went to a sprayground for a playgroup one day. Pretty cute place. (The water wasn't actually on yet in these pictures.)

Ben got to come with us this last weekend (his first weekend off since a month ago!) to the science museum. We had a fun time! Cody and Ben went in a booth that shows you how strong winds can get in a tornado.

Here's some of the cute water towers that are all over around here.

We went to the train museum in Oklahoma City a couple weeks ago and took a train ride. Sadly the train only went around 15 mph and Cody was seriously disappointed. But I'm glad we went and tried it out. They loved looking at the trains and getting their tickets at least!

I am getting HUGE. Not a cute end of pregnancy person. Miraculously I haven't swollen a ton, considering the heat, but it does come and go. This baby (who is yet unnamed) can't come soon enough and at the same time I start to panic when I think that it's only a matter of days [23, but who's counting] until I have a newborn. And no sleep. And no free time. And an extra car seat in our little car. And around the clock nursing. I think I can wait, but I do feel 80 years old some days!