Wild Things

We went to Bend last weekend and met up with my whole family minus Tabitha's hubby Trae who is off in the Navy in Italy or something...

Our first stop was The High Desert Museum.

It was a lot of fun, and very educational. There were so many things to expand in with our Homeschooling that we will be set for the rest of the year! We learned about bats, Indians, Old saw mills, pioneers, otters, beavers, fish, birds of prey, big cats found here in the West, mustangs (the horses, not the cars), and snakes and lizards and the list goes on and on.

Porter loved seeing all the animals, and couldn't get close enought to them. I think he is ready for the zoo.

The kids got to do a lot of hands on exhibits like cutting wood with an old saw and listening the way a bat does. I think they learned a lot.

We walked around downtown Bend, ate some dinner, ate a lot of junk food and just had a really great day. We even ran into our friends the Youngs that we knew and loved while we lived in Portland. It was great catching up with them-Bekah and Taylor fell right back in where they left off and I was able to see their newest addition Alston. I didn't have my camera with me at the time-darnit!

Anyway. We parted ways that night, came home and we were all sick. Chad had strep. Bekah had a scratchy throat. Topher was just feeling miserable. I was sick of taking care of all the sick-o's and trying to fight off whatever they all had, and then there's Porter. That kid....

Well that's why I am just now getting to this post now.

Porter is feeling better, but Topher is getting the short end of the stick now. He has a bad sore throat and burnin up at all hours-of course it's the weekend...we're just drugging him up till Monday and hopefully then get him on some sort of antibiotic. Yech!