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I wanted a new "park" family photo- I have one in my bedroom that we took when Adam was a few weeks old so it is definatly time for an update.  We went to the park after church on Sunday and got these 4 cute pics in about 15 mins-when does that ever happen?  Which one should I get framed for my wall?

Kenzie and her class at Turtle Bay

Thursday Kenzies class took a field trip to the museum at Turtle Bay-and we only saw 1 turtle!  It is a really cool museum along the Sacramento River.  They have an small aqaurium type area that shows what kind of fish are in the Sacramento River, and there are some huge fish in there!  Her class was there to hear a presentation on the Wintu Indians, it was intersting, but a very long hour of sitting for 1/2 graders!  There are two galleries there that are always changing.  While we were there there was a lego sculpture exhibt, which sounds silly, but it was totally cool!  The other one was called "The Scoop on Poop" which also sounds pretty weird, but was quit interesting, and that is right up 1/2 graders alley!  We ran out of time for them to walk across Sundial bridge which I think is totally cool.  I would like to take the rest of the family there to check it out!  They have some native animals there to check out to including a porcupine.  It was really fun, but a really really long day, even for me!

Entering Turtle Bay, the rock looking things behind the grass are turtle status-the kids of course though they were stepping stones!  They have a tank that is about 6ft high and you can see all the different kinds of fish.

There whole class got to sit in this bark house, that is a replica of how Wintu Indians lived-I didn't think they would all fit, it is a good thing they are little! Kenzie on the right with her friends Gracie and Chancee, yes all the "eees" (Grac-ie, Chanc-ee and Kenz-ie) rode in my car-quite an adventure, but they did really good for being the car for an hour and a half there, and an hour and a half back!

This was one of my favorite parts, all of the things in this room are made out of legos, it was really neat. There were quite a few that were portraits I thought those were actually the coolest because they weren't 3-D, like you would expect Legos to be.  Most of them were really big and a few of them were kinda illusion like, they just looked like one thing until you looked closer.

Like this one just looks like a bunch of people walking, but I though that has to be something because of the way the color was done on the people, so I kept moving around and finally I bent down and when I got at a certain height then the "eye" just popped out.  It is funny how after you know it is there, I can totally see it in the picture on the left and I tool that picture before I thought there must me more to the piece!

All in all it was really fun, I just wish we had had more time-definatly a place to visit again!

Halloween 2009

Okay-so I have finally sat down for two minutes so here is Halloween finally!

We started our day with visiting some of the cute old people that love our kids and had special "Halloween treats" for them-then we hit the DownTown Trick or Treat-which of course is really crowded and it reminds me that every year I say we are not gonna do this-and then I forget until we are there-  anyway it was also a little difficult for the kids to manuver around in there costumes with so many people, and it was HOT-well maybe not 100* hot, but for October it was warm- I had made the kids long sleeved black costumes! 

Anyway their costumes turned out way cute!  They were race car drivers, and more specifically they wanted to look like Heather Bartlett, who is a local girl that races at the Silver Dollar Speedway- she met us downtown so we could get some pics with her! It was really fun!

After downtown we headed to Grandmas to show off the costumes and then to Richards parents for "pumpkin pizza"!  Which reminded me we forgot to go to Papa Murphys to get the kids pizza-don't tell Kenzie we forgot, she still hasn't remembered and she will be so upset if she realized we forgot-that to her is almost as good as the candy!  By the time we made it Trunk or Treat at the church Kenzie just wanted to hand out the candy.  Adam went to 3 cars and then wanted to go hand out candy with Kenzie.  So they sat in the back of Richards parents car and handed out candy, Andrew was asleep in the car, so I got to go walk around and visit and take pictures-it was pretty fun!