Splash Pad

This summer Cass has been watching Treygann, his nephew. So for one day they all went down to Springville and tried out the new Splash Pad.

Both of the kids had a blast playing for about 90 minutes.

Alden loved these water spouts going up and down.

Treygann would splash his face and make Alden laugh.

I love this picture. Looks good coming from a crummy phone.

Super Saturday

So a couple of weeks ago we found ourselves trying to fit everything possible in to one day.  We started with a parade.  It was Alden's first and he did not enjoy it as much as we thought he would.  Oh well maybe next time when we sit close enough to get candy.

Dad trying to entertain and contain the little boy

The General Lee came to the Strawberry Days parade awesome!

After the parade we raced up to Salt Lake and met my old roommate Kate and her family in Little Cottonwood Canyon for a little hike and lunch.

On the trail

It wasn't too difficult Norah walked most of the way like this.  Too cute!

The waterfall, I think it is called Lisa Falls

This was a great little place for Alden to explore.  The waterfall was not too big and there were rocks everywhere.  He is such a boy and in a phase were he has to pick up rocks wherever we go.

Playing at the base of the waterfall

Family photo time

Playing with rocks again after lunch.

After lunch we went and picked up Aunt LaWayne to hit the last two stops on our Community Exploration Pass; the Natural History Museum and Red Butte Gardens.

Looking at a live view of the surface of the sun at the Natural History Museum!

Putting the parts of a cell in the right places

And there were dinosaurs awesome!

After looking at dinosaur bones we got to dig for our own.

I think Alden enjoyed it.

We also got to build our own volcano and then watch it explode

After seeing the natural history Museum we had a quick snack and headed next door to Red Butte Gardens. 

I just love this picture

Alden was sleeping in the stroller so we took some time to hang out with the moose

It was a long exhausting day, but we had lots of fun.  And to top it all off there was the coolest moon that night.  It was glowing and up before the sun had gone down all the way. This picture really does not do it justice.  We hope everyone is enjoying summer as much as we are.

Discovery Gateway

We used our free community exploration pass to get in to Discovery Gateway a museum for kids and it was AWESOME!!!!  We will definitely be going back.  Alden and Treygann had a blast.  They probably could have stayed all day if Alden had taken a nap already.

When you first come in there is a little area with tubes that you can roll balls down.  There were also some that sucked the balls up and then you could watch them roll down into a big pit.  So much fun.

Then we moved on to the playhouse.  Alden LOVED this tiny piano. 

He also had fun in the kitchen.

Treygann never made it into the house because he was playing with the crane and construction stuff out front.  I think this was his favorite part.

Look we took  a trip down south :)

Just going for a quick drive.  There were a couple of cars to play in.

Unloading some produce that got delivered to the grocery store.

Anyone up for a horse ride :)

And you can't have a good time without water, right?

Those were just from the bottom floor.  When we got upstairs there was even more.  Treygann gave an excellent new cast.  So Alden had to give it a try as well.

 

 

Then it was outside for a turn in the helicopter.  It made noise like it was flying and there was an intercom so you could talk to people in the booth.

Next were these weird foam things, but the ball ramp was pretty fun.  Did I mention Aunt LaWayne came with us?

And on this wall all of the pipe pieces had magnets on the back so you could move them around in order to make the coolest way for the ping pong balls to roll down.

Alden enjoyed these weird building pieces more than the wall.

This tube was blowing air straight up and there was paper so you could make your own helicopter to fly in the wind tunnel.  Pretty fun especially when he came out the top.

And because I am too lazy to move this up with the rest of the news pictures we also had fun playing with the green screen.  Can't wait for our next adventure here.  There were so many things we didn't take pictures of that we could probably stay for days.

Baseball!

This Spring our nephew Treygann played coach pitch baseball for the first time.  We were able to go to at least one game a week and we loved it.  It was fun to see how much the kids improved from the beginning of the season to the end and we really enjoyed just getting out of the house and spending some time outside.

Playing in the outfield

The cheering section.

Batting!  Treygann improved tons on his batting during the season

Just loved his cheesy face and the fact that Alden wanted to go over and play while Treygann waited for his turn at bat.