More Museums...More Horses

the new horses at the Treehouse Museum

the girls did play for a moment with the doctor/baby stuff

Yee-haw!

It seems collecting eggs is fun no matter what museum you're at

Emma trying the construction business

playing grocery store--a favorite in my memory of the old Children's Museum

surprise...surprise....the girls found the horse!

So as a child, I remember going to the Children's Museum in Salt Lake to dig dinosaur bones, play grocery store, write on giant checks, and check out the inside of an airplane. I thought it was the greatest place. Well, I guess that place is gone, and the new and improved museum is called Discovery Museum at the Gateway. With our free passes in hand we headed to Salt Lake the week before school started so we could check it out. It was a fun place for the girls to explore and we spent half of the day there. We also went to see the new "Wild West" exhibit at the Treehouse Museum in September before our membership ran out. And as you can see, the favorite place to play was with the horses!!

Utah State Fair

Our family (plus one fun cousin)

What cute carrots!

Brielle pickin' apples on the farm

collecting her eggs

Isabelle and Brielle after a day on the farm

our favorite part of the fair....

riding a horse, of coarse!

my favorite part of the fair

petting the animals

I love September for so many reasons! The start of a new school year, my birthday (more on that later), garden tomatoes, crisp fall air, new school supplies, making salsa, wearing jackets, and the Utah State Fair! This year we attempted to attend the All-You-Can-Eat ice cream festival (part of my "30 list), but it started to rain so we only made it to Layton before we turned back for home. Luckily, there were 5 more days of the fair, so we went down later that week and had a great time! It's too bad the money disappears so fast...we could have played all night!

Kindergarten

Emma's first day of school

posing on the playground

Emma found her seat at the red table

Lining up on the second day

Jill, Emma, Brielle, and Ike on the third day

building sandcastles before the bell rings

the exciting part for Brielle--the playground

I'm not sure how it happened.....but I now have a child in Kindergarten! We've talked about it since preschool ended and then in a blink of an eye, the day had come. I didn't cry as I sent her off that first day. I think I wiped the sweat off my forehead in my mad dash to get the whole family ready by 8:15am. That is why I took pictures of the whole first week....I felt rushed in all the "first day pictures". Emma has reported "Kindergarten is even better than preschool because every day is a surprise! " It has also been great to hear all of the quotes that are said during the first week of Kindergarten such as:

"A little glue will do"

"Don't be afraid of your pencil or use it as a weapon"

"Keep your hands inside your invisible bubble (personal space)"

"You get what you get and you don't get upset"

Haha. Kindergarten teachers have so much patience!