Today's Adventure.

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I will tell the truth: I didn't feel like doing home school today. One reason being that Hallee took 2 hours to write 5 sentences yesterday. Seriously. I was feeling a bit of PTSD this morning and it didn't help that it was sunny and in the mid-70s.  To state the obvious: we needed an adventure. 

Two weeks ago, Casey and I started a Sunday campaign to teach our kids about early church history in preparation for our upcoming road trip to Nauvoo. With this in mind, I decided to take the kids downtown to the newly renovated Church History Museum. We rode the bus, of course, because riding the bus is what turns ordinary outings into adventures. I asked the ladies at the front desk what they could show us that coincided with our study over the past couple of weeks--we are up to 1830 right now. They smiled and explained that the entire first floor of the museum is about exactly what we are studying for our trip. Exactly. And wow. It is really awesome. They even have a new theater there with a recently produced movie about the First Vision. The kids got to see the actual printing press used to publish the first Books of Mormon, an 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon, and hear stories from Joseph Smith's scribes. We only took in a small part of it today, knowing that we'd be back a few more times before our trip. The new kids area of the museum upstairs in now a great interactive art space, and we spent the rest of our time there.

Lindy, spending some time relaxing on a camel's back. This girl was in the zone, especially for not getting a nap today. She loves adventures!


Illegally picking flowers on Temple Square.


As I was taking this picture, several Chinese women lined up behind me to do the same. There were some tour groups there and the ladies started mobbing my kids, hugging them and snapping photos of them wildly. Since it's happened before, the kids just rolled with it.

I wish this picture didn't have a weird fog in it because it's my favorite from today. All the kids, finally looking in the same direction.

We topped our day off with some BYU creamery ice cream. Somehow we spent the entire day downtown. It was almost 5:00 pm when we finally got home. I will say that it was a billion times more fun then waiting hours for someone to write 5 measly sentences.

Waiting for the bus.

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  1. Eileen WhiteMay 24, 2016 at 6:32 PM

    Heavenly outing. Thanks for sharing it so well so I could easily insert myself into the action. There's no end to the blessings that are yours for home schooling so faithfully.

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