Family Fun Day!

Last weekend, we celebrated being a family.

Our "map" of activities.

We started with a family hug and had a pillow fight. We went to a friend's birthday swim party. We built a fort and played games and watched a movie in the fort. Then we had a glow stick party.

Pillow fight!

Watching a movie in our fort.

Glow stick party.

The fort continued to get good use on Sunday.

Western Day!

In honor of the Wild West Book Fair Kick Off, Megan and Matthew dressed in western wear. They were super excited!

Eclipse

On Monday, we looked at the solar eclipse. We had about 70% coverage here which was still pretty neat although sometime we'd like to see a total eclipse.

U looking at work.

It was somewhat cloudy but we could still see it pretty well most of the time.

We decided to get Megan and Matthew at lunch so they could look at it, too. Bonus was that they could eat lunch with mom and dad. (Sarah watched the eclipse at school via live feed and saw the total eclipse there.)

Me looking.

Matthew looking.

Megan looking.

U looking.

Matthew and Megan thought it was really cool.

A few cool pictures a coworker took through his camera and filter.

Another tooth gone!

Matthew lost his second tooth. It was quite loose and so he asked dad to tie some floss around it and yank it out. He was very excited to have another hole in his mouth.  The tooth is still hanging from the floss.  He is also holding a letter he wrote to the tooth fairy.

Legoland Discovery Center

This past Saturday, we went to the Legoland Discovery Center. For Christmas, each kid received an activity gift and this was Matthew's. He was very patient waiting for us to go. When we asked him afterwards what his favorite part was, he said, "Everything!"

At the beginning, we went on a tour of the Lego Factory and were able to help by designing Lego minifigures and stamping faces on minifigures.

We then went on Kingdom Quest where we shot at trolls, spiders and skeletons to help save the princess and the baby dragon.

We toured Miniland which contained many scenes from Phoenix and Arizona. It changed from night to day periodically.

We watched a few shows in the 4D theater. In our favorite, characters from the Lego Movie visited Brick World, where Risky Business (President Business's brother) tried to trick them into performing in a show for his amusement park. They even sang "Anything is Super" (to a tune very similar to "Everything is Awesome").

We went on Merlin's Apprentice Ride which was a Dumbo-type ride where pedaling makes the couch rise and stopping makes it fall. There was great music that went along with the ride and we agreed that the ride was more fun than you would think it would be.

There were a number of play areas and building areas that people enjoyed.

Matthew in the Lego City play area. He and Megan spent over an hour in here and would have loved to stay in longer. There was a construction area, a police area and a fire area.

Megan and Matthew in the police tower.

Look who got put in jail?!?

U enjoyed building. This is the mini Duplo Eiffel Tower he created.

U building a Mixel-type creature.

Final product. This Mixel is part of the unreleased princess castle line.  As the director of  daily affairs in the castle, Howzky uses her stick to point out what needs to be done.  She always keeps her house and wig in perfect order.

Sarah enjoyed building with blocks on this wall.

Astronaut U in Space Mission.

Astronaut Matthew in Space Mission.

Matthew, Megan and Sarah overseeing the space mission.

Sarah and Megan on Merlin's Apprentice Ride.

U and Matthew on Merlin's Apprentice Ride. We really did enjoy the ride and rode it quite a few times.

Do you see Howzky?

U and Matthew with a jester near Kingdom Quest, where we again succeeded in saving the princess and the baby dinosaur.

Matthew, U and Megan with a giant Lego octopus outside Legoland (and Sea Life Aquarium).

Megan's Jokes

Megan has started telling us a lot of jokes.  They are very funny but maybe not quite for the reasons she imagined.  Here are a few of them:

Why does a beehive hang in a tree?

Because it needs water.

Why did the potato get caught in the flower net?

It was on the flowers.

Why does the fish go in water?

It needs to breathe.

Why does a fish need a tank?

Because it needs it survive and not live on the counter freaking people out.

Why does green smoothie go in the fridge?

It needs to stay dry.

Why does a banana have a peel?

It doesn't want to get brown so easily.

Why do butterflies, bees and hummingbirds have wings?

They need to get away from their enmities quickly.

Why do we have trees?

To watch them grow and eat food.

Why does the digger man ride the fire truck?

He is a fireman on Sunday.