Bison Day 2025

Road Trip! 

I am thankful for the family tradition we have of going to Antelope Island every year for Bison Day. This year National Bison Day was on November 1.

We brought our bison plushie, Otter the Bison, which is also tradition.

Jeremy wore a bison shirt. That is also tradition. We have a lot of Bison Day traditions it seems.

It was a beautiful afternoon and evening while we were there. 

The leaves were falling. At Garr Ranch, a couple of my sons were trying to catch them as they fell. It was Play Outside Day, after all. 

It brought back memories of when I was a child and I used to do that with the leaves from the maple trees in our yard. We only had a few trees around that would drop their leaves. We were mostly surrounded by evergreens. I love living in a place where I can go for drives and see so many different colors of leaves in the Fall. I did love growing up around so many evergreens, though.

I love hearing the rustle of leaves and watching them fall.

We took pictures of some lizards.

Some of us tried our hand at roping.

Some of us checked out the museum and other buildings. Jet got another souvenir penny. 

November 1 was also National Cinnamon Day. We ate brown sugar cinnamon poaster tastries (or toaster pastries as normal people call them) as we were riding in the van.

It was also Vinegar Day. We made the old joke about being bitter when people put up Christmas decorations right after Halloween and completely skip Thanksgiving (not to mention all the other wonderful November holidays like Vinegar Day and Bison Day, right?). We talked about having salt and vinegar chips but we ended up with sour cream and onion.  

 

It was a nice trip. I love family days like this.

There were plenty of "Bye, son" jokes while we were on Antelope Island.

We said, "Bye, bison," when it was time to go.

At the end of the day, we said, "Bye, sun." 

Pitching Pennies

To celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, I set up a game for the kids to play- "Pitching Pennies."  It is similar to one we played for President's Day in 2011.  In that game we had a big tub set out on the floor.  This time it was a pan on the table.  The pan had water in it with an empty sour cream container floating in the water.  The kids stood on one side of the table and tossed pennies (with Abraham Lincoln's head on one side), trying to land them in the sour cream container. 

Sometimes they landed in the container, sometimes in the pan of water, sometimes on the towel (yes, I made sure to put a towel under the pan), and sometimes in random places on the table or floor.
The kids definitely got silly, but they had fun.

Jr.:  Oh, poor Abraham Lincoln.  We're throwing him into a bucket... and into water.