Spring Break in Herriman

 After Mike and I ate lunch with Mom at Our House, we headed up to Nick and Kaylee's house on Wednesday, March 27. Their kids were home from school all week for their Spring Break. They have been doing a swim camp at a private pool/lessons in in South Jordan. Thursday was their last day, so we went along to watch. Walking in to the backyard pool house was a glasses-fogging experience! Warm and very humid. The student/teacher ratio is 2 to 1, the kids make really good progress and have a lot of fun.

Rachel is doing her warm-up with swim fins and a kickboard, and Jane is working on learning to flutter kick with straight legs. (above)

After swim camp, Mike and I took the four kids to Scheel's sporting goods store in Draper to 1) go on a bear hunt, and 2) Ride their indoor ferris wheel. It was such a rainy day!

It was so hard to get a photo of all four in front of the big stuffed bear! Silly kids were trying to look at its butt.

We DID ride the ferris wheel.

And we rode the escalators. Oops, my photos got out of order! Walk, then Swimming , then Scheels on Thursday. We played with squeaky chicken and pig toys, observed all the stuffed game animals throughout the store, AND Logan got to try his hand at a shooting arcade and did a pretty good job for a first time experience shooting something that big.

Emily is an observer for this swim session, but will probably join in the fun soon enough.

At home, there is an art gallery on the living room wall.

Mike and I walked on Thursday morning about 3 miles. Can you tell it was windy?

Friday, we tended for a bit in the morning so Nick and Kaylee could attend a temple session. After lunch, we met Kaylee's sister-in-law, Robin and girls at Thanksgiving Point and we spent time in their  Children's Discovery place.

It was busy, crowded, but a lot of fun. There was tons inside to do, and some fun things outside as well.

An auger is dumping rubber chips on Logan.

This spinning toy was all the rage for the five girls. They were very strong to be able to withstand the centrifugal forces attempting to hurl them off!

There was plenty of sunshine. Mike walked the parking lots and got all his steps in. Mike and Robin ate sitting on the bench, Kaylee is standing by them blocking the sun from her face with a kid's jacket.

The indoor things were varied and fun. It included a reptile show and the opportunity to pet a snake.

And back at home, we play games, we do gymnastics on the living room floor, create obstacle courses, we play with toys and do arts and crafts, we eat lots of yummy foods that Kaylee feeds us, all three meals a day.

And we try on on Big sister's high heeled shoes!

And read or play on Tablets and watch TV.