Some Summer Fun

Sorry but I just realized I was a little behind on these. We have a membership to Thanksgiving Point, so we go to the Farm Country as often as we can. Here are some pictures from one of our visits.

Thanksgiving Point, Farm Country

(or petting zoo as Chris calls it)

petting one of the little ponies

some bunny rabbits

The little man wearing his Elmo sunglasses

riding the pony....this is probably his favorite part of the whole Farm Country

some sheep

the best part of the whole day....a popsicle

After the Farm Country we went over to see the Hidden Falls, and had a little picnic there

Hidden Falls

reach for the sky!

SO CUTE!

the goof ball himself!

of course he had to go play in the water

strike a pose

and another pose

Stopping to smell the flowers

For Pioneer Weekend (July 24) we went to the Days of 47 Rodeo in Salt Lake, then on Saturday we went up to Ogden to the Pioneer Days Rodeo. Didn't get any pix of the Days of 47 Rodeo.... but did of the Pioneer Days Rodeo.

Pioneer Days Rodeo, Ogden Utah

walking with his Uncle Randy to the rodeo

holding his hat over his heart during the national anthem. This one is really special because his Uncle Will left for Afghanistan two days before this picture was taken.

checking out the bucken bulls!

"Cheese"

a close up of one of the big old bulls

Over this summer we've made it to 5 rodeos, and there is one more the end of October still to go to. He loves going and watching all the ropers, bare back riders, saddle bronchs, and of course the bull riders. Some of the rodeos started later in the evening so it was a little tough for him to stay awake all the way to the bull riders. But he sure has a great time watching all of them.

Tracy Aviary

One day this summer we decided to go check out the Tracy Aviary here in Salt Lake City. All the years I've lived here I have never gone and checked it out. Jared asked me about it one day and said he'd like to see it, so we all decided to go.

Tracy Aviary is one of two free-standing aviaries in the United States. It is over 70 years old and a cultural asset to Salt Lake City

The little man....all ready to go see some birds!

a pair of beautiful Golden Eagles

and a Beautiful Bald Eagle.... or "Papa Eagle" as Chris calls them

He calls my dad "Papa with no hair", and so that's how the Bald Eagle became the Papa Eagle :-)

the next pictures are take by Christopher himself!

He's turning into a little photographer

The Aviary Bird Show!

cool owl!

the spectators

the Trio

Donating to the Aviary

The Raven might have scared him a just a little :-)

Backwords

Ok so I posted the next two posted in reverse, but you still get the idea. We went to the aquarium the first day, then the railroad camp the next day.....I'm still working at the blog thing :-)

The next day we headed up away from the beach, and into the hills above Santa Cruz to go to the Roaring Camp Railroad. Chris was pretty impressed with the train, and was really excited to go for a ride on it. Here are some pix from our fun day there.

Mommy's little Pumpkin

and the Scarecrow

a little red barn for the little man

Mommy and me on the train

the train going around a turn on the bridge

Little man showing off his moves in front of a BIG Redwood

"Mohawk and a gun" as he said

Letting off some steam!

one of the cars

a caboose

and a close up of the little man

checking out the ducks....what a QT!

Monterey Bay Aquarium

In August Christopher and I took a trip out to California, mainly Santa Cruz and Monterey. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium one of the days we were there. I haven't been back to the aquarium with Chris in a little over 2 years. It was really great to take him there again.

Checking out some fish

Some beautiful jellies.... they probably aren't as beautiful if they are stinging you

CHEESE!!

Getting comfortable watching all the different animals in the Outer Bay Exhibit

"Zuga" the sea turtle... she's a character from his Diego movies

The Hot Pink Flamingos... he thought these were very cool

Looking for Nemo

"I found Nemo, Mom"

there was a cool little cubby hole that the little kids could sit in and look at the turtles

The other side of the window that Chris was looking thru

a new friend

another new friend

Mr Cheeser again

Checking out the sea dragons, these are so neat looking!

petting a sea cucumber, Chris thought this was very cool. I had to finally take him away from it when he started squeezing it instead of just petting it

a baby penguin.... or so he said he was

this exhibit had water crashing down over the glass, it was fun watching Chris sit there watching the water rush over him

checking out the kelp forest

Preschool Level 3 Swim Lessons

Preschool Level 3

Now it's time for preschool level 3. Chris' teacher for this class was Kelly. He didn't like her as much as Dallin, but he was still good for her and did all the stuff he was supposed to do.

He had to "dive" down and get these little toys off the bottom of the pool, they called it "scuba diving"

Getting ready to jump in

Hanging at the side of the pool. This part was too deep for them to reach the bottom and this is where they would jump into the water.

Swimming to his teacher!

Jumping off the side to his teacher, then swimming back to the wall

Passed Preschool Level 3!!! Next summer I think we will do Preschool level 3 again for a refresher class, then he can move to Level 1!!