Dinos in a Pudding Tar Pit

May 22 was Maritime Day. We listened to music from "Wonka." At beginning of the movie, Willy Wonka gets off a boat and sings about it.

May 22 was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Birthday. I watched a show that referenced Sherlock Holmes. Since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Lost World, we ate dino nuggets in vanilla pudding (tar pits) for Vanilla Pudding Day, also May 22.

May 22 was Solitaire Day, but instead of playing a game by myself, Jet and I explored some Candy Land together. He won twice.  

Tea Party

 

May 21 was International Tea Day. I got excited to try out recipes from Whisk Me Away by Michelle Wright. 

We had Cucumber Sandwiches, Spinach Artichoke Dip on homemade English muffins (the muffins recipe was not in the book but the dip was), The Perfect Tea Cookie, and strawberries and cream (also not in the book but it was Strawberries and Cream Day). We each got to choose what kind of herbal tea to drink and of course I had to use my "just one more chapter" mug.

Not only does this book have delicious recipes but there are bits of trivia about different time periods as well as games and quotes from Proper Romance novels. 

Dancing and Graduating

On May 20, Eliza Doolittle Day, besides eating chocolate, Lucky had his end of the year dance festival.

Great job, Lucky. Can you guess what song his grade danced to?

 

That evening, we went to Jr.'s seminary graduation. 

Great job, Jr. 

During the graduation, they showed pictures of the seniors as babies and as they are now. These are the pictures of Jr. We got the little boy picture of him from this blog from 16 years ago (August 27, 2009). He's still a cutie.

Later that night, since it was also Pick Strawberries Day, some of us ate strawberries. Some people in our family love strawberries, some hate strawberries. I am one who loves strawberries.

Eagles and Blackbirds and Real Birds, Oh My

 Jeremy is a bird eater, a one eyed, one horned, flying purple birdy eater.

 

O.K. This is what happens when I get started on a post but don't have time to continue blogging. My kids step in and... well, you saw the first line of this post.

 

What I was going to say was Jeremy had a balloon gig coming up where he was building a jet based on one that actually existed so as a family, we went up to Hill Aerospace Museum to see it. 

Research!

 

Here's the story: Back in the 60's, that's 1960s, Murray City acquired a retired jet, a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star. Do you want to know what they did with it? They turned it into a slide. Yep, a playground slide at Murray Park, where kids could climb up one side and slide down the other. Around 1990, it was retired as a slide and taken to Hill Air Force Base. It was repainted (and whatever else needed to be done) and hung in the Hadley Gallery of the Hill Aerospace Museum. Ta-da. So we went to see the real jet and later Jeremy (and Debbie) built it out of balloons.

 

Here's the real thing:

 

Here is the balloon jet: 

 

Here is an informational poster they had at the event:

 

And here is our family at the Hill Aerospace Museum: 

It was a nice family activity. I loved seeing Jet with the jets. Tee Hee. I told the kids that the last time I went to this museum was when I was a little girl myself. One or two of our kids had visited for youth activities but this was the first time as a whole family.

We saw lots and lots of aircraft and Jet and Lucky both picked out pennies to squish. Jet's was an Eagle and Lucky's was a Blackbird. We made sure to get pictures of them with their pennies with their aircraft.

 

After we got home, a few of us went down to Utah Lake State Park to see real birds. It was a windy day, a wonderfully windy day. It was so fun to see waves flying up onto the rocks while we were there. So fun.

Lucky especially loved it.

We saw some birds, too. 

It was a long, busy, but good day. 

Mommy, Look

Lucky: GOAT Haircuts? Is that for kids? 

Here's Some More Catching Up

May 13 was Leprechaun Day, Crouton Day, Fruit Cocktail Day, and Apple Pie Day. Guess what. We celebrated.

Ah, homemade croutons and homemade apple pie. Mmmmmm.

Besides given ourselves "gold" coins for Leprechaun Day, we also turned on Irish music and had some fun moving to the music. 

Lucky decided to use his fruit to make a kebab. Why not? 

 

May 14 was Dance Like a Chicken Day and Buttermilk Biscuit Day. We made Biscuits and "Gragy" from Shelf Cooking 101 by Jordan Page.

Of course we danced like chickens.

 

May 15 was Dinosaur Day, National Chocolate Chip Day, and International Day of Families. We had Dino nuggets and chocolate chip pancakes with our family.

 I also got out for a walk that morning with a friend I haven't been able to do anything with for a while.

Wax and Awards

The day after Screen Free Week was busy. I got to see Lucky be Brigham Young at the elementary school's Wax Museum.

He did such a good job. Ever since the school play, he's loving being dramatic with things. I love his Brigham Young face. Such a fun kid.

Oh, he just corrected me when reading this. "That's not true. I've always loved being dramatic, doing voices and stuff."

That night was a Senior Awards Night at the high school so I got to see Jr. get recognition for some awards. Woohoo. Cool kid.

Then we went home in time to be online for my niece opening up her mission call to... Argentina. I had a brother who went to Argentina on a mission. Jeremy had a brother who went on a mission to Argentina. Fun stuff.