Friday, April 13, 2012

Zoo

We went to Hogle Zoo during Spring Break this week. 







The baby elephant, Zuri.





 Luke in his favorite spot, seriously.









These two rhinoceroses were making a huge fuss as they fought. They were eventually separated by their trainer. They put on quite the show. 









This tiger was also growling a lot and staying pretty close to the fence. We spent quite a few minutes with him at close range. 








 The really cool black ball by the entrance. 














University of Utah Natural History Museum

We took a trip to the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City. 


This was near the entrance. The dinosaur growled if you "fed" him a coin. 




 The kids are uncovering some fossils with archaeological tools.






I love these next pictures. James is helping Candace with a puzzle of a tyrannosaurus rex head.




They had these cool displays of dinosaur fossils underneath the floor.




I love the picture of Candace above. The next several pictures are the boys playing with some dinosaur figures. 







Candace examining the characteristics of igneous rocks. 

 The kids thought it was pretty neat that they all fit into a dinosaur's footprint. 


Candace is putting together a clay pot from the "First Peoples" Section. 



This was to show what an archaeological dig site looks like.


This was where you could see if your structure stood up to earthquakes of different magnitudes. 



























Ours didn't make it.




The next few pictures are of Luke examining the parts of an animal cell.








You could press your hands on this wall the leave your "print". 


Levi had taken a dive into my grandparents pond earlier in the day. Hence the homemade lava lava. It was fun trying to keep that on him all day.


Prehistoric alligator. 



Sunday, April 8, 2012

Easter 2012



Joshua was saying how this was the BEST DAY OF HIS LIFE!









Easter Morning


There was this beam of light that the kids thought was pretty cool. They played in it for a long time. 




Curly Hair for Sunday. 


Candace incredulous.