Museums and Farming

 We started out April with a trip to the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake. Chase loved it when I took him a few years ago, but I knew he'd love it even more now. He is way in to dinosaurs. The boys loved seeing the dinosaurs, although Hudson wanted to move quickly through them and Chase wanted to stop and read all the displays- thank goodness I had my mom there with me, so I mostly stayed back with Chase and she moved ahead with Huds and Nora. They also had a gecko exhibit there which was way cool and both boys loved- although just the opposite of before- Hudson wanted to admire each gecko, while Chase just wanted to identify them and move on to the next thing!

 We had a really great General Conference weekend. We had a good balance of getting stuff done and watching conference and relaxing. My parents watched Sunday morning session at our house after we all enjoyed Ben's amazing biscuits and gravy for breakfast. I snapped this picture of Hudson watching conference, because how comfortable does that look?

 Among other funny things Hudson does on a daily basis, I came home from the gym one morning to this! Ben had an early conference call for work, so he stuck the boys in front of a show and I laughed out loud when I walked in and saw Hudson watching with his sunglasses on and his little feet tucked into the couch like that!

My sweet friend Katie is on the board of directors for the Treehouse Children's museum in Ogden and she got us all in to play with her! The boys loved it! We hadn't been in over a year, so it was mostly new for them. There were so many fun things to do and explore. The train tables were a big hit, as was the little diner where Hudson cooked up quite a storm. 

I took the boys out to a farm on Saturday morning where my dad was helping a friend plant kale- which I even admit, was really interesting to watch. The boys helped plant some kale by hand, and then rode in the tractor with Papa for awhile. I love this picture of Hudson helping carry the trays back to the truck. I wish I had audio of his little voice saying "I'm helping. But this is really heavy!"