Thanksgiving Point Petting Zoo

THANKSGIVING POINT....A FUN PLACE TO PLAY WITH YOUR FAMILY..

A day on the Thanksgiving Point Farm.....with my family...Super fun time! 

Gift shop...can we have some of these little farm animals grandma?
"I like the piggy"........"I like the horse".....

Looking around at how they milk the cows and the milk assembly line...

My daughter snapped a pic with me and the grandbabies....I lub them.....

There is a lot to see on the Farm at Thanksgiving Point....And we got pony rides, a hayride, and the petting zoo all
for only $2.50.  Tiff has an annual pass to the farm so she got us in half price...COOL!  Loved THAT! 

Hey, we weigh as much as a little baby lamb!  

Hi grandma!  Look at the cute cows?  They look so soft...

We watched horses getting shod with horse shoes....did you ever see the size of those nails they
pound into the horse's hooves?  Crazy! But they say it doesn't hurt! 

But as you'll notice, they DO have to tie the horse all up.....hmmmm.......

 It was such a fun day at the Petting farm.....mostly because the weather was just so perfect. I think it was 50 degrees in UTAH IN THE WINTER!  wHAt is UP wItH  tHAt?

Giddy UP Partner!  

We couldn't get my granddaughter to go on the horse, and then the nice lady running the ponies just took her
and talked to her about petting the horse, letting it smell her hand and get to know her, and then
just sat her up on one and walked around with her....it was like magic!  

Aww....can you resist that cute face at all? Nope....not me.....

We were so amazed and appreciative....she did something she's never done before!  Woo Hoo! 

She's not too sure she likes it yet.....

Giddy-up! 

OK I'm liking this....

Look at me, look at me!  I'm riding a cute little horsie!  

Aren't these guys  cool?  Really pretty with the horns and all...
here a goat...there a goat....everywhere a goat goat....E-I-E-I-OOOOOOOO  

Uncle Devin teaches how it's done.....what a good uncle he is....

The goats kept fighting each other to get the food from the girls....It's really a Goat eat Goat World
out there isn't it?  Well....out there at the petting zoo that is....

Cool horns on these goats....probably the most fun animals to feed....we had a few
bags of corn and meal to give them....

This goat stood on this rock mountain  the whole time we were there....I guess he wishes he was on a REAL mountain somewhere.....or maybe he is just a mountain goat doin his thang.....I dunno....

Hi Grandma!  Look at this freaky goat!  Baaaa!  

Feeding the goats.....

Can you believe how UGLY this turkey is?  It looks like the face of PREDATOR, THE MOVIE!  

I did like his black and white feathers.....Turkey Turkey.....

 Acting like one of the animals..... Doesn't she look like a turkey?  LOL

A pretty peacock....we couldn't get him to open up his pretty feathers though....we kept squawking
and making honking noises.....he probably gets that a lot.....yeah...we looked dumb doing that...I'll admit it! 

Grandpa ROCKS! 

I love my gramps....

The kids loved seeing all the gentle horses....

Befriending a black beauty horse....

Feeding the ducks at the duck and swan pond....

There were little playhouses too...cute photo op! 

The highlight of the trip for me was the hayride around the farm.....so relaxing....

We're goin on a tractor ride! 

Loved the wagon ride....  

I saw this many ducks at the pond grandma! Count em....one....two.... 

 Hayride truck....without any hay in it!  I enjoyed the ride around Thanksgiving Point so much
I didn't want to get off when it was over.....so peaceful and relaxing! 

Johnny being silly on the kiddie tractor.....I think I could make one of those outta wood!   That would
look really cute at my Bear Lake cabin in the yard!  

Boy was that FUN!  Now let's go EAT LUNCH!  Rumbi here we come! 

We had a great time at the Farm at Thanksgiving Point!  The docents and
guides were all so nice and helpful and sweet to the kids....Loved our day outdoors...

Valentines Decorating

Valentines is coming soon so I got out my bins of February Valentines Decor and got busy today...

It's amazing how much stuff I've got stashed in those flippy white and red bins! 

This is my coffee table.....I love this little stained glass heart box....

This is great little pillow for a Hot Potato Game....for a kid's Valentines Party

I can't believe how much stuff I've accumulated.....

Living Room Valentines Table decor.....

 I worked at Kohls while getting my Master's Degree in Education....so I got great discounts
on lots of their fun decorations at holidays..... It's hard not to go overboard though....:D

So anyway, here's inside my front door......

My dining room picture wall....each season I change the black metal cone contents.....and
hang some new ribbons or a swag of some sort on the wrought iron bar.....

Great Room entry......I love this jingle bell heart.....

Hanging from the dining room chandelier...lots of hearts here....

I got some heart suckers for my grandbabies....

Kitchen table....I love placemats and runners.....and I change out the candle colors each season....

This little plate rack in my kitchen I've got Holiday plates for every season now....
Well....except for 4th of July...Maybe I can find some red, white and blue ones....hehe....

Valentines Picture Wall of my family and grandkids....

Outside on the front door I hung a heart ornament on a beaded wreath....I'm so crafty...hehe....

Front entry table....I love this light up LOVE lamp....it stays on all season long.....

My 3 sons and my darling first granddaughter....some of my fav peeps.....

My grandkids love all of my candy dishes...only thing is....these conversation
hearts are like a year old....I buy them after the season...they are for looks only! I actually think they might break your teeth if you chomped down on one of em......

I love this little cupid lamp.....Got it at Kohls after Valentines Sale.  

 I've got Valentines Decorations all up now! Ye Haw! 

A Treat for our Military

What did you think of Madge's Super Bowl Halftime Show?  I thought it ended on a fantastic note but I waited awhile to feel like it got started. The dancers and their costumes on the beginning 2 songs were just so so. And she picked kind of low key songs to play to the biggest crowd on earth, I thought. She should have picked her best standard songs, the ones we all recognize.NOT a new, unrecognizable, kind of boring song.

 But her costumes were good and I liked the tightrope dancer and the choir behind her. I don't know what cheerleaders were all about, that was kinda weird.  And I guess the World Peace, although cheesy was a good message at the end. She always has some kind of message.

The worst thing during the game was seeing on the running tape under the t.v. feed  that Susan Powell's husband had blown he and his kids up. The poor social worker who dropped the boys off and then was barred from entering the home. She smelled gas and couldn't do anything about it. That's such an awful position to put another human being in. I can't believe that guy is such a gutless pig. The inlaws knew he might do something like this and their worst fears came true. How would you live after having your daughter murdered and then you 2 little grandsons, who you had custody of, murdered too. What a poor excuse for a human being. And he left a 3 word "sorry" note to his lawyer.

On a bright note, I loved reading this news in the paper today:


Frank Guidara, CEO of the Boston-based pizza chain Uno's


 and a Vietnam vet himself, teamed up with Pizzas4Patriots


 and DHL Express to ship 10,000(!) deep-dish pizzas to U.S


 troops in Afghanistan who will be able to watch the New


 England Patriots versus the New York Giants this Sunday.


      
 In the past three years, Guidara and his team have sent


 over about 70,000 pizzas to troops for the Super Bowl and


 for the Fourth of July. "We put a lot of time and effort into 


it. Every employee in this company gets so excited


 about this. They have that sense of pride."

That's what I love about America. There's always a silver lining to the bad things that happen. 

There's also the good.  Three Cheers for you UNOS and Frank Guidara! YOU ROCK!  Even if 

Madonna didn't rock all that much. After all, she IS in her mid 50s. I think she did a good job. 

Superbowl Party Foods

Which team will win the Super Bowl on Sunday?  There are always some sports fans among my graders who know the score. They know the players and the teams. They even knew the team colors, can you believe that?  They all love Tom Brady. My kids think he's going to be on the winning team.

Well, we shall see.   I have a fun little challenge for my classroom kids.  Those who predict the winner correctly will win a football sweatband for their wrist.  Those that predict incorrectly get to do 12 pushups.   And I have lost in years past. It wasn't pretty watching me trying to do more than 12. So we keep it at 12 pushups.

 

Our class graph....looks like the Patriots might be the favorite!  

This easy baked brie has dried cherries and pecans and jam inside. I shape it like a football and then cover it with puff pastry. The recipe for the Baked Brie is HERE.  At the Pepperidge Farm Website you can also watch a video on how to make the Baked Brie. It is to die for Yummy as a cracker dip!

I shaped my brie cheese like a football

I put the letters on with the extra puff pastry. I fill it with raspberry jam, some brown sugar, pecans and dried cherries. I wait to bake it till just before the Super Bowl starts.  Triscuits, Pretzel Ritz and Wheat Thins are good with it.....

Yummy baked brie with dried cranberries and pecans inside..

This yummy stuff is my black bean and corn and avocado salsa.  It's a really fresh and kind of filling and really good! 

This yummy black bean salsa is made from black eyed peas OR black beans, white sweet corn, green pepper,
avocado, tomato, cilantro and purple onion, with a few dashes of lime and Italian Salad Dressing and salt and pepper. It's a crowd pleaser with Tostitos and these yummy pretzel crackers. and very filling! .

HERE at the Family Fun website I found these cute cupcake football players I thought would be super cute to make for a Super Bowl Get together......M and Ms for the eyes and yellow buttons, black skinny licorice for the facemask.  Kids would LOVE these.

These cookies were from "On the Record Sports" and would be easy to make
from a chocolate cookie recipe....Only need a little icing in white!

Here at Luxe Finds was a cute way to do your 7 layer dip on the top....just make the guacamole
layer show on top and make lines from a piped bit of sour cream....then top with 2 colors of cherry tomatoes....so cute! 

Now here's my dipped strawberries...what if you added the white laces in white chocolate on
top...and removed the stems...wouldn't they look like footballs? Yeah they would....yum...another idea....

Another bunch of cupcakes that even looked easier were these "football" shaped cupcakes....
or make them as sugar cookies topped with chocolate icing and the white lacing....EASY!




  
Those will be good Super Bowl Party foods, won't they? They'll go nicely with PIGS IN A BLANKET  and chicken wings FOR SURE! 

HAPPY SUPER BOWL PARTYING!