Saturday, July 28, 2012

Sacramento Discovery Museum-July 10th

While we were in town visiting Robert's mom in Sacramento, we checked out the Discovery Museum Space and Science Center. It didn't look very large, but it had a wide variety of science and nature activities for the children to enjoy. I purchased a family membership there for several reasons. First, it was more cost effective to get a membership for all of us for a full year, than it cost for us to pay admission one time. Second, because we were planning on checking out several museums along our Oregon trip, and this museum was part of the Association of Science-Technology Center's Passport program, it definitely worth it for all the other admission fees we would spend. Here are some pictures from our day there. 
The younger ones dressed up like dinosaurs



The Allen Family of dinosaurs-take one!

The Allen Family of dinosaurs-take two!

Robert taught Gabriel about scales

Matthew learned about types of rocks.

Elijah made prints of dinosaurs.

Rebecca hung out with the dinosaurs!


Matthew thought this was hilarious. Boys!



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More dress up time with the dinosaurs!



Our niece Paula came along with us for the trip.

Cousins!


My silly children


Friday, July 20, 2012

Travels

The past two weeks have been an incredible journey for me and my family. Time away from our "reality" has done so much good for our family-in more ways that I can count. I have amazing stories to share, pictures to post (some of which made it to FB before my phone broke last week), and so much more about our future plans. If this blog has been neglected for awhile, so be it. It is what it is, but the rest is going to be written.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Vacation

today we left on our ten day trip from ca to oregon. the settings are odd on the mobile site, so i will keep this brief. we have plans to see state and federal parks, science and children museums, and a couple of diners,drive in, and dive locations. so excited to be on the road and keep a journal of our adventure. here we go.