Tuesday, May 24, 2016

BYU Fun!

We have spent the last 2 Saturday's at BYU, taking advantage of some of the fun things they have had going on. Last Saturday, Daddy took Adam and Tessa to the Chemistry Lab where they were doing a science day for kids. Adam and Tessa got to learn about science, do some experiments in the lab, watch a science magic show, and even eat some ice cream they made with liquid nitrogen. They had a great time! Tessa was in science heaven!







 I love this picture of her raising her hand. She was so in her element!


There was a lot going on this past Saturday as well, so we tried to take advantage of as much as we could. The Museum of People's and Cultures was having a special visitors day, where we got to do a lot of fun activities, make crafts, and learn about archaeology. The kids got their faces painted, got to grind corn, make corn husk dolls, learn about Indians, and dig for arrowheads. 






 We planned on having a picnic lunch while we were on campus, but the weather did not cooperate, so we took our picnic to the Wilk and ate in there. 
 Adam played the piano and people stopped to watch him play. That made Mommy more nervous than Adam. 
 Tessa wanted to be a picture. 
After lunch, Mommy took the little kids home and Daddy and the big kids stayed on campus for more fun. The Erying science building was hosting Astrofest! So the kids got to spend their afternoon learning about space! They saw a show in the Planetarium, launched rockets, checked out the giant telescope, and lots of other fun things!



 They even got to go inside the anechoic chamber. They said it was kind of creepy to have no noise.  
 Tess got to hold a real meteorite from space!
And they had bounce houses. It couldn't have been more fun!
We had heard that there might be some special visitors at our Costco last weekend, so before we called it a day, we all headed to Costco to see who might be there. Caleb heard the Imperial March music before we even got up to the store entrance and he tried darting for the store on his own. When we got up to the entrance and he saw 2 Storm Troopers standing there, his eyes got huge!! He even had his Darth Vader toy in one of his hands. The Storm Troopers were so nice and gave high fives to everyone and played around with Caleb a bit. They could tell from all of our reactions to Caleb, that we were really there for him. He couldn't take his eyes off of them! It was super cute. They took pictures with us and it was the perfect ending to a very fun family day!