Bryson's Red Butte Garden's Field Trip

Bryson's 3rd grade field trip took them up to Red Butte Garden... the day after Preston's :) Yep back to back field trip and bus rides... but on the bright side it was two days spent with my boys enjoying their field trip. Bryson's class is split 3rd/4th so his teacher talked the principal into letting the 3rd grade have their separate field trip with the rest of the 3rd graders. Mrs. Bowen has been such a good teacher, so always goes to bat for the kids.
The day was perfect for this field trip as it rained the day before, we went on a mile hike and the kids learned about wildlife, plants, water conservation, trees and river safety. It was a very educational field trip. After we drove down to Liberty park and ate lunch and then got to play for almost 2 hours, Mrs. Bowen just soaked up every minute we had been given, no rush to return to school - just as it should be.

Preston's Discovery Gateway Fieldtrip

Preston got to go on his first field trip in Kindergarten - I always go on field trips with my boys and I love that I get to experience this with them and that I have the opportunity to volunteer in their class a few times each month. I love that i can see them in that environment and get to know their peers and teacher.
The Kindergarten gets to go down to Discovery Gateway - and we get to ride the BUS! the field trip is really relaxed - there is not agenda or set thing to do, the kids get to simply explore at their own pace and desire. There were enough parents that we were responsible for 2 children, really nice! And we got to spend the day with this cute little blonde! It was such a fun day and Preston thoroughly enjoyed it.

Off Track FUN!

Off Track - I like off track, I like it when its 2 or 3 weeks... however on D track we have a long spring off track. We start with 2 days of Spring break and head right into 4 weeks of off track... that's right - 30 whole days off track - 720 hours, 300 of those sleeping hours leaving 420, 56 of those hours are Sunday waking hours, leaving 364 hours - 21,840 minutes - 1,310,400 seconds - all equaling "Mom... what are we going to do today?"
Well! I had big plans to fill this off track with a new adventure each day, of parks, zoo, bike rides, mountain trips... the weather on the other hand had something else in mind! it rained all but 5 days of our off track - so we didn't do much but play inside.
We were able to get out to this new park a few times, the boys did have fun picnic's here and playing till they wanted to go home.














Giving up on the weather we turned to dollar days at Classic and went inside to play... it wasn't crowded at all and the boys love to ride their scooters.







In the end - 1,130,400 seconds that I wouldn't trade out playing and having fun with my kids!