Tulip Festival

Our last stop at Thanksgiving Point was the Tulip Festival, which only runs for two weeks during the spring each year. As you can imagine, we took lots of pictures. The lighting was okay when we first got there, but by the time we were leaving it was just perfect so I couldn't resist taking a ton of pictures. So this post is mostly just a tulip photo overload!

A lot of these pictures I tried to get the kids to cooperate for posed shots and of course at the end of a long day they just wanted to do whatever they felt like.

 Micah spilled water all over his jacket and it was too cool to let him go without some kind of jacket, so he is wearing my moms cardigan.

 Best pose with all of them! Lol.

Camden finally woke up at the very end.

 And was not a fan of picture taking.

Big sister makes it a little better.

Thanksgiving Point: Dinosaur Museum and Farm

Chris and Reah ran the Tulip Festival 5K at Thanksgiving Point a couple weeks ago. They were given All Access Passes in their swag bags to the Natural History Museum, Farm, and Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. But the passes were only good during the week for the week right after the race, so Chris and Reah gave us their passes because they wouldn't be able to go before the passes expired. Yay, score for us! Thanks Chris and Reah!

I think the kids liked the excavation pit (aka giant sandbox) most at the "Dinosaur Museum." Julia got the idea they you had to unearth the bones and was excited to do so. Micah just liked digging in the sand. Either way, they both had fun.

My Mom was able to get off work early and join us.

They also liked the Erosion table (aka giant sand table with water). I don't think either of them got the concept that they were suppose to watch as the water eroded their creations, but fun nevertheless.

They had some BIG dinosaurs!

Then we headed over to the farm area.

We went on a wagon ride. Micah liked the tractor that pulled us.

She had fun, trust me.

Julia liked the pony ride. Micah told me he wanted to do it, but then when we stood next to the pony and I tried to put him on the pony he wouldn't get on. So we just watched Julia.

Up next, the Tulip Festival. Since I took so many pictures there that will have to be it's own post.

Easter

 Easter, like each of the major holidays, was a week long event.

During the week we dyed Easter eggs at home.

Julia had a little Easter party at school. I missed most of it because I was out doing errands that took longer than expected, but I did manage to be there for the tail end of it. Here she is with her Easter basket they made in school.

All sitting in a circle waiting to exchange treats.

On Saturday we went to the Easter egg hunt at the city park. I know a lot of families avoid these because it can get crazy, but it really wasn't that chaotic. They had enough space to separate all the ages so Robert went with Micah and I went with Julia. I told Julia the secret is to run past all the kids at the front when they say go and go straight for the middle of the field. Well, she followed my advice and had the middle of the field all to herself for a couple seconds, then she realized I hadn't followed her out to the middle of the field (I wasn't about to run over any kids) so she ran back to the front where I was. Of course by then all the kids had picked up all the candy and eggs at the front and by the time we made it back to the middle of the field again it was almost all gone. So Julia cried because she only got a few eggs and candy. 

 Micah got a sucker and could care less about what else was going on around him.

 Having fun on the playground. When does winter end in Utah?

The next day they got a church board book, and some stickers in their Easter baskets. Julia also got an "I Am a Child of God" necklace and Micah and Camden got new ties. After church we had an Easter egg hunt on the front lawn for just the kids at our house: Julia, Micah, and Daniel ;). This time they got plenty of eggs..and candy. Next year I'm putting coins in the Easter eggs instead of candy.

These were taken around the same time so I'll just throw them in here too since Camden didn't in very many Easter pictures.