Museum, Snow

We went to the Museum of Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point for Junie's birthday, and we loved it. The rainforest play area was everyone's favorite, but it was too vast and labyrinthine to get many pictures, so most of our pictures are from the other areas. Of course everyone enjoyed being a floating head!

Four-year-old (!) Junie was very proud of herself as she balanced on the spinner.

Plane in the rainforest

Monopolizing the teeter-totters

Family teamwork playing with the mist machine.

They got some pretty good smoke rings!

This room was really cool, full of all kinds of drums and percussion instruments which you could control using these computers. You could choose which beats sounded and which instruments played on those beats. I could have stayed there forever.

Ready for water play

Lighting a lightbulb with leg-power

(Easier for some than for others)

Goldie explores the mist

Stretching to reach!

Out the tiny door! What a fun time!

We also have been enjoying the late-season precipitation this year! There has been so much rain, and in April we even got some snow. 

Theodore's baby blessing

It was so fun to get out the little white boy blessing suit after all these years! Theodore looked so cute for his blessing. Grandma Nelson came to church with us, and it was nice that Grandma and Grandpa Nielson got home from their mission just in time to come too!

I only have a few pictures of the other boys in this suit (and none of them are on the blog), but after getting so many cute pictures of the girls in the blessing dress on their blessing days, I felt like Teddy deserved an equal opportunity to be darling. And he did not disappoint. We love him so much and we're so glad we have him!

Looking sweetly at Sam

Serious

The old "laugh-so-hard-I-bite-my-hand" move

Bears and so on

Right after Theodore was born, Abe said we MUST take a picture of Teddy with all Abe's bears. Here he is, with a Rubik's Cube for good measure.

Grandma took Abe on a trip to see some black bears in Southern Utah. They were disappointed not to find any cubs, but they still had a great time!

Sebastian and Daisy made a huge snowball and a tiny snowman

Daisy and Junie, before and after their haircuts (and Goldie getting in on the action)

Happy Malachi-bird

Beautiful picture Sam drew of Theo for his birth announcement

Birthday Picnic

We had such a beautiful day on my birthday that we had a little ice-cream picnic and played at a playground. We were warm even without our coats on! We couldn't believe it was February.

Bunnies, Baths, and Beyond

Theo and Nutmeg

Abe and Nutmeg

Seb and Nutmeg

Three girls in a tub

Malachi made a little "shop" to sell his origami bunnies. He set it up outside (alongside Seb's "Paper Model Airplanes/Trains/Trucks" Shop) hoping some of the kids walking home from school would buy some bunnies. I think he had a couple customers and then ended up giving away all the rest of the bunnies to his friends.

Daisy's fancy hair. She went to a play with Grandma Nelson.

Junie in one of my old dresses

Goldie in one of my old dresses

Pretty sunset