Discovery Science Center & the Beach

We ended up doing the Discovery Science Center (the giant cube in Orange right off the 5) instead of the Aquarium of the Pacific today. It was half as far and half as expensive.
Climbing giant skin in the Grossology exhibit.
Inside the Argentinosaurus,
Sliding down a dinosaur tail.
My kids standing on a big pile of Argentinosaurus poop.
Maggie in the wind tunnel with wings.
Maggie's favorite exhibit: rolling balls across a spinning table.
Dalton's favorite exhibit was these spinney things in the baby area.
Doing laundry.
We also went to Newport Beach this morning before John went to work.

Snow Canyon State Park

Some pictures from Snow Canyon. Pioneer Names Trail.Waaaay up there.
Little Rock Climber
Jenny's Canyon trail

Zion National Park

Pictures from our trip to Zion National Park on our way to California this past weekend.
Kolob Canyon
On the Riverwalk hike.
Datura flower
The Narrows
Weeping Rock
Pine Creek Bridge - built by my great-grandfather Lewis J Whitney.
Bighorn sheep showing off while we waiting for the one-lane tunnel.

Discovery Gateway

John's company sponsored a free day at Discovery Gateway, a children's museum. We'd never been before and had a lot of fun. The main exhibit we went to was a child-sized town.
Checking out our groceries.
Cowgirl.
Dalton sat in the garden and chewed on this carrot the entire time Maggie waited for her turn on the horse.
Policewoman.
In the construction area. They had lots of foam blocks that you could build with, or move around.
Dalton: crane operator.
Climbing up the block slide.
Painting a honeycomb.
In the birdhouse.
Baby play area.

Garden Girls - and Baby Boy

This is our third year taking the kids to $2 Tuesdays at Thanksgiving Point. (Age 1, Age 2) The first year we went they were just older than Madeline is now!

I took almost this same picture last year.

Maggie loves when we drive by the wind turbines.
We also went to the Museum of Ancient Life.

T-Rex after me and the babies.

Maggie says hi to Brachiosaurus. She looks very 1985 with her frizzy hair and leggings.