Loveland Living Aquarium & Penguin Encounter

Loveland Living Aquarium

The kids and I posing inside the replica of a megalodon jaw (thought to be one of the largest sharks ever at 59ft long, ah!).

I love it when they all cooperate for a picture (mostly).

Peter rarely allows pictures these day, so I was happy to oblige him when he asked me to take this picture.

Penguin Encounter
A few months ago I was reading a news article about penguins and they quoted someone from the Loveland Living Aquarium in Draper, Utah. They happened to mention guests being able to pay an extra fee to help feed the penguins once a day. Since this aquarium is only 20 minutes from my parents house and Peter adores penguins, I decided it was a must do for our summer list. Tim was too young but all the other kids were able to participate. They all LOVED it, except Reuben; he was terrified of the penguins and would not sit on his bum the entire time. I ended up feeding all his fish to the penguins while he touched my arm, ha! I felt like this was very much worth the extra money.

They sprayed white poop all over the place, yuck!

I love this picture of Peter. His face shows pure joy and adoration for the experience. He gave me a couple hugs afterwards and couldn't stop saying, "thank you so much!"

Here is my dad feeding a penguin.

 

A fight between Pebbles and Rico-just like my kids.

Swimming the Summer Away

Swim Team

Adeline got some serious racoon eye tanning this summer, ha!

Rigby

 Peter

Swim meets end up being 3-4 hours, so to keep everybody's sanity, I plug the kids into electronics. I love this pose from Tim in his little camp chair. This is the life!

Free Pool Time

The kids wanted to come back to the pool while the slides were open, so we spent a few hours there one afternoon. I was trying my best to keep an eye on all the kids, but I hadn't seen Reuben for a while and was a getting a little worried. There were probably 15 lifeguards, so I was more worried that he tried to go back to the car and got lost rather than drowning. I almost missed him when I glanced back at our stuff because he was snugly wrapped up in his towel and Adeline was blocking my view of him.The poor boy has no meat on his bones, so he gets cold easily and quickly; I guess he was tired too!

School Work: 2018-2019

Here are some of the kids school work and some other projects that they were really proud of this past school year.

Peter

 

This drawing and self description are so Peter, ha! (it says, "I am technical, logical, skilled, see if worth it, I am Peter")

Rigby

This is a water rocket that Rigby made out of a soda bottle at school. I got to see him set it off during a Parent-Student night. 

Rigby loves to draw and doodle if he has extra time at school. These were some of my favorite pictures that he drew.

 Rigby made this at home out of recycled materials for Cubscouts. He called it an "Ultrasaurus."

Adeline 

Adeline totally deserved this award. She is a VERY hard worker!

Reuben

This is a picture of a heart and then the our Nintendo Switch on the bottom right corner. Reuben drew this at church.

Reuben's Preschool Graduation

Reuben is officially a kindergartner now! He was adorable in his graduation hat. These are terrible pictures, but I forgot my good camera because I was in a hurry and life has has just been crazy with end of the school year events, assignments, etc. I am so thankful for his wonderful teachers and the preschool director who made the atmosphere so friendly and safe. Reuben always came home so happy on preschool days and by extension me. I cannot believe I will have four kids in elementary school this next school year!

Father & Son's Camp Out

Scott bravely took three of our four boys to the Father & Son's Camp Out. It was about one hour drive from our house and halfway there Reuben informed Scott that he wanted to go back home; Scott told him it was too late. Reuben didn't like any of the food and proceeded to scream and cry for about 30 minutes until he ate a little because he wanted a soda so badly. Soda is his one true love these days. He also took forever to fall asleep. They all did have fun and wished they could have had more time to play and hike around. It was also the first time that we have ever used our 6-man tent that we have had for 7 years. I'm hoping he might be up for four boys next year-ha, ha, ha!