Home School April Week 3

Happy Birthday to our incredible FIFTEEN year old! We partied with some amazing girls. Fish Kiss, Mozz and ice cream.

Science Fair. We hosted a science fair and made a sweet movie you can see what we did here

Crew made his own volcano

Sudoku with Nixon

 

Bryce Canyon

We took a 3 day/ 2 night trip to Bryce Canyon in June. It was the perfect weather and amount of time for Bryce. Bryce felt like another planet to me, Mars maybe. It is so dramatically different from anything else I have ever seen. We all loved it so much. We did the main hike starting around 6pm and it took us a few hours. We were not in any sort of rush and let the kids play in this natural playground. We started at Sunrise to Sunset point and went to Wall Street. The switch backs were so fun.

In the middle of these towering red rock walls was a beautiful pine tree.

This hike had so many fun features to explore.

We made it to Queens Garden and finished at the overlook. All 5 of our kiddos, they love being in nature and love hiking. I would say when we start most hikes we have one or two that aren't thrilled with starting the hike but by the end everyone is in their happy place:)

 

One year old Elle.

The next day we rode bike in Dixie National Forest. We did a 14 mile bike ride starting at this trail head and finished at a camp ground where Conrad and Kylie rode down Thunder Mountain. Which was pretty intense, maybe not the best parenting move. I took the kids and rode down the same was we went up. The kids and I had a great time riding down. Kylie and Conrad felt like falling off the cliff of their ride was a real possibility :/

Yoga at lunch.

JUNE

June was full of gardening, quarantining and boating. We live with The Peterson's, they are the sweetest couple and we get to learn all things gardening and farming from them. They live in our mother-in-law basement. We got to go boating to kick off June together. It was a beautiful night of skiing and scripture study. We like to do family scripture study on the boat- we have a captive audience;)

Mr. Lynn teaching the boys how to catch night crawlers

Eating from the garden

Working the farm

Mason came up! We loved getting to spend time with our long lost world traveler friend:)

Raising chickens

Hiking with friends

We added Jack and Ricky to our farm

Lots of playtime and letter writing to our friends from med school!

Kylie looking on her phone to buy a trailer to flip

She found one!

"Thanks dad, I'm going to need A LOT of help" :)

Watching the garden grow

Bike ride and ice cream stop

LOTS of reading

Finding rope swings on the lake

Our new hobbit, mountain biking

We drove the 4x4s with my in-laws to Bear Lake from our front door to get a raspberry shakes