Friday, August 10, 2018

Temple Trip and Visit to Gainesville

We took a trip to the temple to walk around the grounds and have a family home evening lesson. It was hot and the sun was in our eyes, but we had a great time. Sometimes when you plan something like this, everyone is grumpy and it all falls apart but thankfully not this time! We really enjoyed it!



We weighed Baymax and even though he looks bigger since the last time we weighed him, he was about the same: 80 pounds. Maybe he is just growing more fluff?

Anthony decided to show off his trampoline skills to the boys:


The library had a visit from "Zoo Mom", a woman who has tons of reptiles on her property and comes around and does educational shows with them. I felt like she could be me in 30 years!

The boys and I drove to Gainesville for a few days for a small vacation with my family. Anthony stayed home since he was working, such a bummer.

They loooove the big shag rug at my brother's place. There is no way we could have a rug like that, it would be impossible to clean but it was fun to watch them roll around on it.

We checked out this awesome used bookstore my mom and brothers have been telling me about, and the boys convinced my mom to buy them pokemon toys. They were in heaven!

We jumped around at the Flip Factory (trampoline park) and then played their arcade games.

We visited a new hands-on museum funded by a grant from the guy who created Gatorade. The theme of the museum is innovation and invention. The favorite part was a room of robot animals:

Next to the museum is the most amazing park I have ever seen! It had so many different places to play, a shaded sand pit, a large splash pad, and anything else you could imagine. Even though it was crazy hot, the boys wanted to stay and play all day.

We stopped for dinner at my mom's favorite deli. I bought the boys a cookie to share and they took their pieces and kept breaking them into smaller and smaller pieces so that they could have "more" than the other. Boys!

The next day we visited the natural history museum and the butterfly rainforest. They have a really neat augmented reality screen on the wall that makes it look like prehistoric animals are walking around next to you. The boys loved it!

Butterflies!

Rett making a ridiculous face as usual!

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