Wheeler Farm

During the past couple of summers we have tried to do a fun field trip or activity for each week of the summer. Today was our first summer outing of the year to Wheeler Farm. As usual we went with our good friends, the Kaminsky family. 

Our visit consisted of petting the farm animals, milking a cow, feeding the ducks and playing in the water and the trees.

The little girls loved it, while the teens were slightly bored, but happy to be bored together.

 Zoe milking a cow.

 Claire milking the cow.

The Box Elder tree made a good photo location. I think the photos turned out pretty well considering they were taken on my phone.

Summer 2010

I always have grand ideas about the fun stuff I am going to do with my kids during the summer, and then life just keeps going forward and it is easy to put stuff on the back burner. This summer we managed to get in a few fun activities, thanks in large part to my friend Karie, who motivated me to get out and go. 

Among other things we went to Twin Falls, ID, Willow park zoo, Bear Lake, Minnetonka Cave, the Discovery Gateway children's museum, bird refuge and swimming. And then Karie braved taking her girls and mine to go fishing and to Antelope Island.

We also attended dance camp, clog camp, my niece's wedding, the Mormon Miracle pagent in Manti, went camping at Heber Valley girls camp, and had a family Independence Day party. Isabelle attended girls camp and Zach worked all summer at Camp Hunt boy scout camp. We also celebrated Isabelle and Justine's birthdays.

I attended a Carole King & James Taylor concert with my sisters and my sisters and I also had a few fun evenings together learning a dance for our family talent show at camp. I also managed to read a few books this summer. Woohoo!

Whew! We did more than I realized this summer. You don't realize all you've done until you start to list it out. Here's a slideshow of some of our summer adventures.