Ogden Nature Center

This past Tuesday I actually got to go and chaperon Hyrum's field trip to the Ogden Nature Center. They were learning about trees.
Here they are learning about what the different leaves look like, the difference between coniferous and deciduous trees, and all having fun doing so.
Here they are all receiving instruction on how they are going to make their own paper.
Making paper.There was a nature trail there called birdhouse trail in which there are bunches and bunches of various different kinds of birdhouses made by members of the community. I took snap shots of some, but they were pretty wild, made out of all kinds of things. This one is an adobe home.
A rubik's cube.
Propane tanks.
This kept the temperature for the birds.

It was a lot of fun and Hyrum and his class had a blast. It was fun to be along for the ride and get to see some of what he has been learning.

First Snow

Last night it was kind of snow raining, nothing sticking, and then this morning, we wake up to this. It was still snowing when I took the pictures and was still going strong when we went to church this afternoon. It chilled out a bit while at church and then this evening started up again. It is very cold but it was beautiful.

The tree right outside our back window.
The playground
The van out front.
Onto a different note. What with the weather turning pretty hard on us, I had to dig out the winter clothes, including, the winter jammies. Dan's my third to wear these and they are just so cute. He also kept the hat on a heck of a lot longer then any of the other kids.

Uh-Oh

This is Danny's new word. He says Mom and Dad but this is just too cute. Sorry they are sideways, can't turn a video but you can still see the little cutie.

Dancing Fools

My kids LOVE to dance. Especially Emma but the boys really get into it too, even Dan but I don't have any of him getting down yet. Emma and Porter are probably the ones that love it the most but even Hyrum gets going with his sister. Emma is definitely the inciter when it comes to dancing about the house, but they are sure cute when they all get going.


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