Trip To Chicago

We went to Chicago last weekend.  First we went to the Aquarium then to the Field Museum which I carelessly left my camera in the car for the museum so NO pictures.  It took us ten hrs to get there.  

  This was on the way there the mountains were beautiful.

   

The next day after the aquarium we walked to the sears tower from the aquarium which is like 3hrs of walking.

 This is the aquarium selling.    

 Fish in the aquarium eating another fish.

 Thats what I call a smart fish.

 This is the best picture of a beluga whale I could get, you are not aloud to use flash in the aquarium so excuse the bad pictures.

 

 A giant jelly fish can you see the tentacles go so far back.

 Look at all the little fish.

Sarah Landon John and I got a separate room from the a joining room.  

On the way home we stopped at the science and industries museum.  This is Landon’s hand and you can see his veins.

Then we went home, and are living happily ever after.

 

Trip To The Butterfly House

The butterfly house got a touch pool with sting rays and little sharks.  The first time we went to the butterfly house I did not touch anything, but the second time I went with two friends and I touched every thing.                                                                                                        

A sharks tail and a crab of some sort.

 There is a more clear picture.

 Jellyfish.

 The lion fish the most poisonous fish that I know of. 

 This plant is unheard of  to be sean in SD, it grows in Hawaii. 

 

The second time we went is bellow.

  The one on the left is Hannah and the one on the right is Gretchen.

Daniel got lucky. 

 

4th Of July

This 4th of July was special we got to ride on my granddad’s four wheeler, Landon and Sarah even got to drive.Landon and Sarah gave rides to.  Landon gave me a ride first but no pictures.

Some of these were hard to got because I had to take the picture and FAST get out of the way.   The speed limit was 10 to 15 Mile per hr. 

Proof she was moving.

 

Sarah with John.

Dad a little bit later tried to do a wheelie.                                         I get a driving lesson next time we go.

Dominic had this worried look on this face after supper.  Then he saw that he was getting attention and stopped, then he did it again stopped and did it again.

This is the only picture I could get I videoed the rest, and could not figure out how to export them on to my blog.

 But I got Alex with a sparkler.

 

 

 

 

The House Destroyed

Sorry it took my so long to post this stuff.  

 

We got our entire up stairs painted. 

 

All the way down stairs.                                   

Getting ready to paint.     

 

All doors were closed off.

Unusable bathrooms.                                                                              

These

were all the colors we had to chose from.                                                        

Everything was moved is the school room. 

Landon’s Favorite Spot

We all have our favorite spot to be in the house, for some of us it might be on the comfy carpet in the basement, or on the couch, or your favorite chair.  But none of those for Landon he prefers a scary position in the garage.                                                     If you can see the red cored it is up there hooked to his clock and he also has his iPod touch up there.  Dad just put more storage boxes up there, so Landon can’t be up on the shelf any more.   Landon keeps daring me to go up there.  I told him no.

 

 

 

 

I’m Done

I finally lost my LAST BABY TOOTH.   Well I didn’t loose it exactly, I went to the dentist for a check up and my dentist said that she would take it out it was so wiggly.  I could have taken it out myself  but it was in a funny spot and the adult tooth was coming out on top of it, and would eventually be over the baby tooth.   It really hurt when they took my tooth our they some numbing spray on it, but I do not think the spray helped.   Landon and I both did not have any cavities.   Hip Hip Hooray. 

Maria    

Pretzels

I made Pretzels for the first time last Saturday and they turned out ok.  I had to throw out the first batch because I added the butter in late and thought that 16 oz was a lb.  So I had way too much flour.   The second batch was good but I still had too much flour.  And, I don’t think I will be making them again unless I really know what I am doing.  Landon helped me shape them.  Even the messed up batch tasted like a pretzel.       

                                                                                         

Trip to the zoo

        

                                            Our grandma took us to the zoo for a valentines present.  And the zoo added a dinosaur exhibit.   All the statutes of the dinosaurs could move.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        In the bird area all the birds were yelling at us, I even had a conversation with one.                                              This peacock was walking right by me. They must be aloud to walk around the zoo.                                                                                                                                This is the dinosaur exhibit.   He even smiled for me. This picture was difficult for me to get because it was moving.                                                                                                                                            The eggs were so cute they moved there heads like a real baby chick would.   There was a dying, and other dinosaurs on top of it,                                                                                                                       and it was very realistic.                                                                                              The ducks were fun, Daniel for the first time fed the ducks.  If you look closely you can see (above) the Geese’s  beak sticking out for the food.

                                                                                     Just look a at this poor bird.  It is a plucker!  He did that to himself.    The baby monkey was teasing us.  He’s got a carrot.   The last time we were here he was more than half the size he is now.                                                                                                      That’s his mom.  Look at those arms.  She was feeding the baby when we got there.  The entire time were there the dad just sat in a corner.  But we got to see two of them  fight                        

 

   Dominic was out by the time we were at the duck.  The ducks are on the way out.