Showing posts with label field trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label field trips. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

Field trip to a farm

We attended a field trip with FACE this week, to a you-pick vegetable farm. All of us but Brenna, who chose to utilize the quiet house by getting a lot of schoolwork done. Good girl!

 The morning started cool, but the temperature rose quickly and we were pretty hot. We brought water but left it with the stroller instead of taking it on the wagon -- big mistake!


While we waited to board the wagons, the kids held a couple snakes they kept in tubs





On the wagons:






We picked corn, potatoes, cabbage, kohlrabi, leeks, onions,beets, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, butternut squash, acorn squash and pumpkins.






All of the kids ate some corn, but Liam had 3 ears by himself!



After we picked the veggies and hauled them to our car, we were extremely hot, thirsty and hungry. We sat at some tables in the shade to eat lunch. At least Chase, Liam and I did.  The other three still somehow had energy to go back out in the hot sun and play.






On the way out, we stopped to pose for pictures with their collection of "Cars".






When we got home and set out all the vegetables, we realized we ended up with a lot more than we'd thought!


That night, Chase made a vegetable soup recipe from his favorite chef, Alton Brown.  We gave two bags full to a neighbor and two bags to a friend. Now we're working on what to do with the rest.  :)







Monday, May 10, 2010

Firefighter's Museum



I'm making a sincere effort to get pictures and blog posts up in a more timely manner. Today we met a friend at the Firefighter Museum downtown. It was just me, Declan and Zane since the other 4 were at Options.


Here's my cute little firefighters:



With my friend's daughter, Noelle:






Zane is still too short to be a true fireman. =)






Friday, December 04, 2009

Oogave Soda Tour

A friend set up a fun tour for our homeschool group to the factory that make Oogave Soda. Right now it's sold mainly at Whole Foods, Sprouts and Sunflower Market. They use natural agave nectar in place of sugar or sweeteners in their soda.


It's a small business, so the tour was short but we learned a lot and the kids each got their own bottle to try.


This picture reminded me of Laverne & Shirley





We enjoyed the different flavors; the kids voted Watermelon Cream and Root Beer as their favorites. Give it a try if you see it in your store!

Thursday, May 07, 2009

April field trips

In April, we went on 3 field trips. I already posted pictures from the aquarium and the Denver Mint doesn't allow cameras, so these are from our other field trip, to an ice cream shop in Boulder.



So many choices



Watching them mix the ice cream



Yummy!










Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wednesday

I am really going to make an effort to update more often. So here's today:


Scott snapped this picture this m0rning before work, of the moon and Venus:




Look at my cute load of laundry:



After lunch me and the youngest 4 kids met up with one of our homeschool groups at the Denver Aquarium. We arrived early and while waiting, the kids had fun with the bubble machine while I had fun with my camera.








Inside the aquarium:







This is how Declan felt about his first visit to the aquarium: