Easter Weekend

We had a busy schedule to keep this easter Weekend.
Saturday Morning: Dye Easter Eggs






Saturday Afternoon: Welcome Grandma and Kirby. Eat some delicious chinese takeoutSunday: Check out Easter Baskets, wear new dresses to church, have an easter Egg Hunt, eat some a scrumptious easter ham dinner.


Sunday Afternoon: say goodbye to Grandma and take naps!
What a weekend!

Fieldtrip Fun!

I was so excited to be able to go on a fieldtrip with Kylie's 1st Grade Class to Red Butte Gardens. It has been a crazy April so there was still snow on the ground but we still got to see the daffodils and other plants and the sun was out!

The guide gave the kids some sage leaves to taste...

Kylie was not a fan!

They dissected seeds and flowers,


saw some of the animal habitats


and generally had a gun time!But I think the part she liked best was taking pictures of her friends on the bus ride home!

Heavy Metal!

Spring Break wasn't very "springy" with all the bad weather...but a break is a break right?
One of the fun things that we did was visit the Bingham Canyon (Kenecott) Copper Mine!
Who wouldn't want to see something that is visible from space?!
The mine is 2 3/4 miles across and 3/4 mile deep. You could stack two Sears Towers on top of each other and still not reach the top!
We loved seeing the GIGANTIC tires that they use on the trucks that haul the blasted material. The trucks are so big the drivers have to climb up a ladder to get in them.
The Visitor Center had a lot of cool things to look at; like different minerals under microscopes, toys of all the different mining vehicles. We thought it fitting that Kylie take a picture next to this "excavator tooth"...it's much bigger than the teeth she's loosing! :)