Pop Goes the Monkey

So I know this is a week late, but seeing how we still haven’t posted our Christmas photos from last year, a week isn’t all that bad. Last Monday was President’s Day. This was the first time in a decade I’ve had President’s Day off, and I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. What do people do on President’s Day? Kind of an odd holiday.

Anyways, I wanted to do something, so I decided to take Cassie and Peter up to the Children’s museum in Salt Lake. Sandy had to get in some work, so I invited my Mom and sister Sophie to come.

It was pretty fun, but extremely busy. When we went to the Children’s museum in Appleton, there were other patrons of course, but we were able to do most the activities by ourselves. Here, there were about a million kids. Every activity was infested with ten to fifteen little monsters pushing and grabbing and stuff like that. Thankfully Cassie isn’t to shy. She just squeezes in and has a good time.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

As my dear wife mentioned, we’ve been a bit lazy posting lately. I was looking through my pictures on my iPhone and thought I’d share a few. Enjoy!

So we haven’t been the best at updating the blog the past few weeks. As you all know, this is a terribly busy season and thus, sometimes the small things like blogging get neglected.

We’ve definitely been keeping busy the past few weeks with shopping and wrapping and cooking and preparing neighbor gifts, etc. For the most part, these have been fairly mundane activities with few snapshot moments, but we have accumulated a few photos.

I’m sure with Christmas coming, there will be plenty more blogging opportunities before the end of the year. But until then here is Thanksgiving through this weekend:

Hey everyone! We’re out in Appleton, Wisconsin enjoying the frigid weather, visiting with family, and the cheese. Yesterday we took the kids to the Appleton Children’s Museum and I must admit, it’s a pretty cool place. There was TONs of stuff to do. I’ll let the pictures below do most of the talking, but on the whole, it was an enjoyable experience. We went fairly early in the day, so for the most part, we could do all the activities without a hundred little monsters trying to push their way ahead or us.

Anyhow, the pictures are below. They were taken on my iphone so the quality isn’t all that great. We have some other pictures from our trips, but they are all across our three digital cameras so I’ll probably get them all together once we get home.

Sandy came and brought the kids up to my work tonight so that we could drive over to Thanksgiving Point. They’ve got a lot of fun stuff going on right now. We decided to do their Barnyard Boo since Cassie’s still pretty young and we had to lug Peter around.

We did the the Barnyard Boo last year as well with Sam and Jessie for Cadence’s birthday. It’s pretty fun for the little ones. There’s a lot of random activities and lots of animals to look at. It’s fun because Cassie knows how to say the names of all the farm animals, but this is the first time she’s seen them all in person while knowing what they are.

She’s pretty bashful around them, though and she never really wanted to get too close. She also didn’t want to try the pony rides again this year. She just likes to keep her distance and name the animals from afar. She does pretty good with the names and sounds, but for some reason she thinks pigs are really pirate piggies. Weird?!