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 we previously mentioned, we recently stayed with Sandy’s family in Appleton, Wisconsin. We packed the kids up, headed to the airport, flew to Chicago, and then headed north for a three hour drive. Traveling with two little monsters can be exhausting, but for the most part, the kids did pretty good (I’m going to overlook the 30 minutes Cassie spent screaming at the top of her lungs in the airplane).

Our time in Wisconsin was pretty quite, which is nice. We did get out and do a few things. We took the kids to see Aunt Ellen’s story time at the library. We went to the Appleton’s Children Museum. We went out to dinner with Ben, Michelle, and Ellen. I was able to take Sandy to see the new Bond movie and grab a bite to eat. We also stopped by Simon’s and spent a bunch of money on cheese.

All told, we had a really good time and are grateful for Sandy’s parents for putting up with us for a week. It was really nice to visit since most of Sandy’s family has never seen Peter and some hadn’t seen Cassie for two years. Hopefully we get the chance to visit again soon. But maybe we’ll go when it’s a tad bit warmer.

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.