Spring Break

Spring is a happy time for me... things are getting warm and sunny.  Green leaves are poking their tips out of the dirt and blossoms are covering the branches of the trees in my neighborhood.  Love it.  It's a sure sign that my favorite season of all is just around the corner.

But Spring Break is the universe's way of saying it has a sense of humor.  It has snowed all week.

Not that it slowed us down too much.  We headed to the University of Utah's Natural History Museum on Tuesday.  I can't remember the last time I went... I vaguely remember going with my dad- he was wearing a white sweatshirt and we looked at a lot of fossils and Native American baskets.  I think I was 7.  It's since been re-done and it's AMAZING!!



The kids had a great time- it was 4 floors of everything you could want to look at.  And probably some stuff they didn't.  I told them they had to tell me one thing they learned at the end of the day or they had to go to bed early.  They didn't disappoint.  Ty took in all there was to see/ learn about dinosaurs.  Ry loved the weather station and I couldn't pull Kate away from the dinosaur lab.

Here they got to "dig" for dinosaur bones...


And here, we were learning about erosion.


And here, the kids learned about magnets/ weights/ measures.


It was a super fun day- I'm kind of glad it snowed.