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Pineview Reservoir Nature Study

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August 8, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We got to experience nature up close and personal when we went camping!

Here was our little buddy. He wasn’t shy at all! He wasn’t even bothered when we made a fire in the pit. He sniffed around looking for scraps.

Chipmunk

Just a little walk and we found ourselves at this glorious creek. The water was icy cold, but that didn’t stop the kids from playing in it! Several of the older kids caught some brook trout too!

Creek
Creek path

Lovely wildflowers abounded all over the campground and trails.

Wildflower
Wildflowers

Just look at that view! There was a great no wake reservoir with trout. I didn’t catch anything though. The kids loved trying to fish. You can also see the lovely storm coming in that drenched us for a few minutes.

Pineview Utah

I love how lush and green the mountains are. We saw deer too!

Pineview Reservoir Utah

Here’s the road that led from the campground to the lake. Christmas trees!

Path to the Pineview Campground

I had great fun examining the thistles on the lakeshore, just buzzing with bees. Did you know there are about 33 different species of bees native to Utah? It is the Beehive State!

There are 3,500 species of bees in the U.S. and 20,000 species in the world.

Bee on a Thistle

See the different stripes and shape of the abdomens?

Another Bee on a Thistle

Hi there!

Thistle with Bee

It was exciting to see wild raspberries all over the campground and near the lakeshore!

Raspberries

Here’s the view from the other side of the lake. I love the clouds in this shot reflecting in the water. It was so gorgeous and peaceful here!

Cloudy Lake

We went kayaking too. The girls could really handle their own kayak and now we want our own! We definitely look forward to camping again. It’s like nature study in a bundle. It was so nice to be without electronics. We didn’t even have a cell signal.

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Our First Camping Trip

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July 31, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We went on our first family camping trip with our church this past weekend.

Aaron didn’t grow up doing the camping fishing thing. I did. It’s taken me this long to get him to try it!

Our First Camping Trip was a huge success!

Nice clean and cute kiddos when we first arrived at the campground. Minutes later, they were muddy and wet. Super!
Clean Girl
Clean Boy

Queen of the rock:
Queen of the Rock

The kids found their own rock.

Kids on the Rock

Alex loved being outside all. the. time.

Outside Time

Our tent we rented from Outdoor Rec. on base

Our Tent

First morning:

Aaron went fishing in a boat with some guys at 0630. Liz disappeared from camp before the kids and I got up. Story: She banged on the neighbor’s camper before 0700 and got their kids up (ages 6 and 9) to go look for berries and/or deer. They walked down to the reservoir and “borrowed” a canoe and paddled out on the lake by themselves. At least they put on the 3 life jackets they found in the canoe (convenient!). It was the story of the week. Great.

First camp breakfast:

Dinosaur Eggs oatmeal and fruit punch!

I think Alex was yelling something at me. whoa, was it cold up in the mountains!

Camp Breakfast

Look at that view!

Pineview Reservoir

Dad set the girls up fishing at the reservoir.

Katie’s first fishing trip! We didn’t catch anything. Got to get up too early for all that. And we are not early risers.
Dad and Daughter Fishing
Girls Fishing

Tent meeting in our “Tabernacle.” Pastor and his son led us in worship. We also had communion with bread baked in a Dutch oven.

Camp Service

We brought our own chairs and sang songs and listened to Pastor preach.

Camp Meeting
Happy Boy

Camp pot luck dinner. Obviously, we need to get a Dutch oven. Seriously.

Camp Potluck Dinner

We went hiking and playing in the creek. That water is COLD! We borrowed kayaks and went paddling around on the lake. Tori and Katie could even manage the kayaks on their own! I was so proud. I seriously want a kayak now.

Alex was inseparable from Pastor’s granddaughter. She’s 5. He likes older women. And gingers.

By the River

Aaron got to have fun retrieving toys that Alex threw in the creek, before they floated away! Alex kinda wanted to see them float downstream, but I was worried that there would be tears if they disappeared in the current.

Fetching Toys

I love how our church practically rented out the whole campground. I felt the kids were safe running around and everyone helped watch out for all the kids. It was such a great experience for our family. We made some great friends over the weekend. We had no cell phone coverage. We really were isolated!

The kids are already asking if we can go next year. I guess that means they liked it.

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Adam’s Canyon Waterfall

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July 21, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

A great day for Adam’s Canyon Hike

Well, we took all seven younguns on a 4 mile hike to Adam’s Canyon on Thursday morning. It says on the website that it’s about 2-3 hours. It took us from 8ish to about 1:30. ugh

But we did see some amazing plant life and some awesome waterfalls. It smelled good and piney and fresh.

There were lots of little scrub oaks with these guys on them. I think they’re gall wasps?

Galls

hey y’all!

Stair steps: Liz@11, Reygan@almost9, Ben@7, Tori@6, Katie@5, Ty@4, Alex@2.

Cousins

And then there were these hard little orangey pink galls on the oak leaves: gallflies.
Oak Leaves with Pink Pods

ants. You’d think the kids never saw them before.
Ants

pretty yellow wildflower

Yellow Wildflower

black chinned hummingbird…see him? right in the middle on the end of the dead branch?

hummingbird in tree

cactus

cactus

view of the mountains down southeast and a pretty look at town on the first leg of the hike

View of Kaysville

Fun in the creek

crossing the creek…see how Alex won that battle?
walking across the river

my son, the rock climber

sitting on a rock

a pretty little waterfall

little Waterfall at Adam's Canyon

yellow columbines

columbines

wild raspberries!

wild raspberries

The jackpot: 40 foot waterfall at the end of the trail!

Adam's Canyon Waterfall

snack time! (on trail mix, not the raspberries…)

Snack Time

of course, I had to go into the waterfall, not all the way, but almost

in the waterfall

that water was COLD

Alex thought this was the greatest thing in the world! (so did I…)

dipping his feet
girl on a rock

It was rough heading back. There was lots of whining and we were so. very. tired. Thank God we had four adults, but it was barely enough. Aaron carried Alex almost the whole way back. Katie is crazy and she wanted to hop on rocks and she stepped off the trail a couple times, almost toppling off the mountain. Special thanks to my sister-in-law, Krista, for saving her life.

I do love hiking and all that, but it is stressful with little kids. I think I’ll stick to the nature center and parks and our backyard until they’re a bit older. I’m still sore!

 
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Hill AFB Aerospace Museum

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July 19, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our trip to the Aviation Museum

We visited the Hill Aerospace Museum.

Always chokes me up to see that POW/MIA flag…

Flags Flying Proud

BIG airplane

Big Airplane

Even the wheels are big! The kids measure up.

Big Wheels

Holding up the nose

Airplane Nose

Fun being able to climb all over helicopters!

Helicopter

Uncle was nice to lift up the kids so they could see inside an airplane.

Looking in the Airplane Window
Looking Inside the Airplane

Lights! Buttons!

Showing the different areas of the Ogden armory

Ogden Armory

reminiscent of M.A.S.H.

Arrow Sign

Katie being goofy

Goofy Girl

Me and my Bubba

Me and My Bubba

Katie and cousin silhouette

Cousins Silhouette
 
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Treehouse Museum

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July 17, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our kids’ museum has a literacy theme. We love the Treehouse Museum.

We started with the castle room this time and worked our way down.

Not the Chosen One…

Sword in the Stone

Dressup Castle

Playing Dressup

Queen and her jester

Cousin Dressup

Royal Cousins

Royal Cousins

Cool light table

Light Table Play

Marimba! pretty cool music

Making Music

Awesome view microscope. Alex loved these and could do it all by himself!

Museum Microscope

Baby doctors Tori and Katie

Baby Doctor Play

More dress up…

Pretend Play and Dressup

Crafts stations…don’tcha know that boy went for the scissors!

Craft Time

Climbing the treehouse

Treehouse Playground

Kate loves cows

Cowgirl

Firefighters…

Firefighters

an Air Force horse statue. These are all over town decorated with regional attractions. I love it.

USAF Horse

Visit the Treehouse Museum

Hours:

Monday
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (September – May)
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (June – August and MLK Jr. Day, President’s Day, Labor Day & Christmas Break)

Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 

Friday

10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Sunday 
Closed

Closed January 1, Memorial Day, July 4, July 24, Thanksgiving & Christmas Day

Tickets:

Children age 1-12:  $7
Adults and Children 13+:  $5
Babies under age 1:  Free

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Hogle Zoo Field Trip

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June 2, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our local zoo had a FREE military day.

Awesome. We were so there. We headed over to Hogle Zoo to see animals!
Alex really enjoyed seeing the animals.
 
Last year, he was a bit too young to understand why he couldn’t pet the animals. He especially loved the elephant and the cavy.
 
Alex loved the cavy so much that we had to drag him away. It wasn’t pretty.
 
Look how this desert cat came over to say “hello”! Alex wanted him.
Desert Cat
The zoo opened a new café, The Beastro (haha),  this spring with gourmet food and it was amazingly good.
 
It was priced equivalently to Subway, which we considered buying and bringing for lunch, but when I looked up their menu and prices, I opted to get some fresh gourmet food and they offered %10 off and free drinks to military! Score!
 
COLD ice cream!
very cold ice cream

They have an awesome playground when you get tired.

Like, who could get bored watching animals? Well, the animals got bored with us and went to sleep about mid-day.
 
Alex loved the snake slide!
Snake Slide
BIG egg
Big Egg
Alex loved the bridge and ran across it, back and forth.
Bridge
I ain’t afraid of no spiders!
Spider
We can’t wait to return for the opening of their new exhibit, Rocky Shores.
 
We already have some events lined up on our calendar since Tori and Katie are studying Apologia Land Animals.
 
Who doesn’t love bears?
 
Visit Hogle Zoo and check out their education programs!

Admission:

SUMMER SEASON ( May 1 – September 30)

Adults$14.95
Seniors (65 and older):$12.95
Children (3 to 12):$10.95
Children 2 and younger:Free

REGULAR ( October 1 – April 30)

Adults$11.95
Seniors (65 and older):$9.95
Children (3 to 12):$8.95
Children 2 and younger:Free

Hours:

Summer Hours

 

March 1 – October 31

Gate:9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Grounds:9 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Winter Hours

 

November 1 – February 28

Gate:9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Grounds:9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Red Butte Gardens

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April 30, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Happy Arbor Day!

We took a trip to our local botanical garden: Red Butte Garden.

It was cold and windy and we didn’t have coats, but the flowers were lovely. It was almost 80 yesterday! We even saw snowflakes. brrr

We rode the train and bus to be all green and the kids were ecstatic to finally ride that train downtown!

Train Ride
First Train Ride

We should have brought jackets. It was still awful cold downtown.

We were quite fascinated by this Dwarf Cedar of Lebanon

Dwarf Cedar of Lebanon

Tori, Katie, and Alex tried out all the swings in each little garden exhibit.

This was in the herb and medicinal garden, which was probably my favorite area.

Garden Swing

The children’s garden was fun and cute with snakes and lizards all over the place!

Lizard Boy
Lizard Girl

This lovely little grotto offered a much-needed respite.

Little Grotto

We walked as far as this waterfall and then headed back to eat some lunch and head home. Oh, how cold they look!

Pretty Pond
Red Butte Waterfall

We really loved this paperbark maple. It was just budding out and the trunk with that bark is so lovely.

Maple Bud
Paperbark Maple

So many different kinds of daffodils, narcissus, jonquils, etc.

Daffodils

a beautiful flowering crabapple

Crabapple

We definitely want to go again, when it’s warmer and the roses bloom and to see some of their new exhibits that open this summer!

 Visit Red Butte Garden
 
Tickets:
Adults (ages 18-64): $10
Military w/ID: $8
Children (ages 3-17): $6
Children (under 3): Free
 
Hours:
Jan 2-Mar 31: 9 am-5 pm
Apr 1-30: 9 am-7:30pm
May 1-Aug 31: 9 am-9 pm
Sept 1-30: 9 am-7:30 pm
Oct 1-Dec 23: 9 am-5 pm
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Earth Day at Ogden Nature Center

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April 27, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Ogden Nature Center had a terrific Earth Day festival!

How cool is this? We got to ride in a llama cart!

Tori was a little excited…

Llama Cart

Making Earth gel clings with colored glue

Making Gel Clings

Looking at sun spots through a fancy telescope.

Tori impressed this guy with her sun knowledge!

She also completed a math puzzle with a pattern they’d never seen before! So proud!

Viewing Sunspots

my lil monkeys rock climbing

Rock Wall Climbing

some much needed icies

Icies

storytime break

Storytime Break
Nature Storytime

The girls have new matching desks for school! They love this setup!

We read about canines in science this week and made sock puppet dogs. They still love those junior notebooks!

We watched a documentary about reintegrating wolves from Yellowstone to the surrounding wilderness and how that impacts ranchers. Now they want to research wolves for a living. I love their passion for their studies!

How do you celebrate Earth Day?

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The Living Planet Aquarium Field Trip

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March 19, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We finished off our science study of Swimming Creatures with a field trip to The Living Planet Aquarium!

Alex was just a baby last year when we went and he didn’t care much about it. This time, he was ecstatic!

We spend a LOOOONG time watching the jellyfish get fed. They literally swooped and scooped up the food from this turkey baster!

Jellyfish Feeding

This is a BIG lobster. Any one have any butter?

Big Lobster

Alex got really tickled at this tank with needle fish and lion fish.

Needlefish

The lion fish spread his fins out a couple times and was quite magnificent.

Lionfish

A really colorful tropical tank

Tropical Fish

There’s a little goby hiding in the bottom of this tank.

Goby

We got to pet rays! Alex liked to watch everyone else pet rays. He really didn’t like it when I put his hand in the water. The keepers said they clip the tail barbs like we clip our fingernails.

Petting Rays

Alex had a needed break in this fun little area with little bitty aquariums among the climbing areas.

Indoor Playground

They also had a quiet room with fun puzzles and books!

Quiet Room

After his break, he wanted to join his sisters again to see the rays.

We got to watch them getting fed too! They went rather crazy. The rays, not the kids.

Ray Feeding

Ribbit, ribbit!

Frog

And the star attraction, just arrived in January!

OTTERS!!!

Otters

They have a little bubble you can climb into and see them from the inside, up close.

Alex really loved this. We also entered the contest to name these cute little boogers.

We glanced through the gift shop, and Alex loved this turtle hat!

Turtle Hat

On our way out, the girls had a fun photo booth session!

I made scavenger hunt pages for the girls.

I had fun clipboards and gave them each a pen and we checked off the animals we had learned about in science this year.

Visit The Living Planet Aquarium:

Open daily from 10am to 6pm, Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas

Adults $17.95

Military $14.95

Teens 13-17 $14.95

Child 3-12 $12.95

 Under 2 FREE
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Eagle Day at Farmington Bay

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February 28, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

It was Eagle Day at Farmington Bay.

Do you see the eagles?

Two little teeny tiny dark specks on the ice. Yeah, that was it.

Bald Eagles on the Ice

Thanks to all the people who told us how much better the event was last year. That greatly improved our day.

At least we got a cool button.

Utah Bald Eagle Day Button

At least there were some other things to see.

A falcon and red-tailed hawk from the Aviary:

Falcon
Hawk

a nest display

A heron rookery. I LOVE HERONS.

Different Nests

And we made the cutest little eagle finger puppet!

Eagle Finger Puppet

We picked up some really awesome brochures and some neato notebooking pages too.

Eagle Day Notebooking

Resources:

Eagle Nest Cams

Bald Eagle Animal Study and Lapbook by Homeschool Share

Eagle Unit by Homeschool Scientist

Eagle Lapbook by Walking By the Way

Eagle Unit by Walking in High Cotton

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