Monday, May 10, 2010
A Trip to the Gardens...continued for the last time :)
Finally! The end of the pics from the Gardens. Here is one of the girls with what we called swans. Not too sure what they really were. :)
Another cool one of the swans. I loved these colors together.
Gotta love Ambry's face on this one. At this point both of the girls were getting a little tired of me having them pose for pictures.
And then Piper needed to copy her big sister.
And one last one. They aren't looking at the camera but I still love how it turned out.
Whew! I didn't realize how many pics I actually took until I loaded all of them onto the computer. Yikes! I didn't realize how much snapping of pics I really did. Oh well. At least we had bunches of fun and we all got to see some really neat stuff.Labels: Ambry and Piper pics, The Gardens
Friday, May 07, 2010
A Trip to the Gardens...continued...again...
I think I am nearing the end of the pics...I think. :) Anyway, check out this gigantic piece of art. I just think this stuff is so amazing! The girls even loved checking out all the pieces. They thought it was so cool that it was all made of glass.
It reminds me of a big ball of fire.
Ignore my absolute giganticness (is that even a word) in this pic and it wouldn't be too bad of a pic. At least the girls and the tree look good. :)
A huge spiral column of glass with a huge spade in the background. I have always thought that spade was a very strange piece of art. I mean, seriously, it is just a gigantic shovel. The glass thing is way cooler. But that is just my opinion. And just an idea on size, I would say this thing has to be around 20 feet tall!
Piper by a very creepy looking gigantic spider. Yuck! But she liked it. Go figure. :)
Another pic of Ambry by the waterfall.
LOVE Piper's big brown eyes here. I think this is the only pic I got of her with her eyes open. Little stinker.
I think I am nearing the end of my pics from the Gardens. If not, too bad so sad because that is the only cool place we have gone lately where I actually had my camera with me. So you're stuck looking at yet more pics from there. Hehe!Labels: Ambry and Piper pics, The Gardens
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
A trip to the Gardens...continued...
There is a gorgeous waterfall with koi pond at the gardens that also had these floating balls on the rocks. Of course, made of glass. This was one of Ambry's favorite exhibits to look at.
Here she is trying to spot the koi.
Here is Piper looking over one of the lakes there. This was her favorite exhibit. See the little floating things in the water? She thought they looked like Hershey kisses.
Here is a little better one where you can see more of the floating "candy". Check out the boat? Isn't that cool? All of those different pieces are all handblown glass! So cool!
This is from the other side of the lake. You can see the boat way on the opposite shore.
The girls cheesing it up for a pic by yet another waterfall.
A couple more pics from the children's garden. The girls loved playing in this water feature. It is actually shaped like all of the great lakes.
All right...more pics to come later...again. :)Labels: Ambry and Piper pics, The Gardens
Monday, May 03, 2010
A Trip to the Gardens
I LOVE going to the gardens and checking out all the cool art they have there. The girls love to go to the Children's Garden. We also got to check out the butterfly exhibit they had there--it was the last day of the exhibit. As a bonus it was also the first day of the Chihuly exhibit. Chihuly is a glass artist who makes amazing pieces of art.
The girls by the "rock candy on a stick"...at least that is what we called it. :)
Those "leafs" that are floating in the water are made of glass. Amazing!
There were a couple of these vases with flowers--all made of glass--in the conservatory (where the butterflies were).
An actual butterfly! This is one of the biggest ones. If I remember right they can be anywhere from 8 to 12 inches!
Another glass vase with flowers.
Our picnic spot outside in an area of the children's garden. 
Whew! Apparently I took more pics than I thought. There will definitely be more to come. This wasn't even half of them!!! Good grief!Labels: Ambry and Piper pics, The Gardens
Monday, April 14, 2008
We made another trip to the gardens to see the butterflies last week. Our membership expires and I'm not sure if we will purchase another one or not. They run about $70.00 and with gas being as much as it is, I'm not sure if it will be worth it. Not to mention, we will only be able to go on Saturday's since I am watching Toby and Natallie again. (Yeah, about that by the way!) So anyway, we met Anna and her two children, Jackson and Ella, and her sister Emily and Emily's daughter Iris.
Aren't these two some serious cheeseballs? I couldn't get them both to look at the camera for anything!
Can you tell Piper is happy to be there? She loves going there since I let her run around after a little while. Can you see her ever present Care Bear? She calls them her baby's and they literally go everywhere with us. She is never without one. (We have 4...)
I love this pic of her, although I need to edit out Ambry in the background pulling up her shirt. And of course you can see her baby Care Bear's head in the bottom of the pic. Couldn't leave baby in the stroller of course!
I LOVE going up to the gardens so we'll really have to consider getting another membership. They still give us free lunch (I used to work there about 3 years ago, maybe a little longer) when we go there. So very nice of them. I always bring money to pay, but Lynn (who is usually on cash register) just waves us through. If we would have had to pay when we went there, just to enter would have been about $18.00 and then for lunch would have been about another $15.00! It all adds up and we have more than made up our membership fee this past year with all of the visits that we made. Maybe someone else would like to invest in a membership so we have someone to go with? Maybe? It is lots of fun! :)
Labels: The Gardens
Monday, March 17, 2008
On Saturday, Caleb and I took the girls up to the Gardens to check out the butterflies. It was unbelievable how many butterflies were out that day. So here are a bunch of pics from our day there in absolutely no particular order.
Ignore Caleb's funny look on his face. :) He was talking to Ambry and then looked over kind of quick when I snapped the pic.
This pic was the unbelievable. Check out how big this is! It was about the size of my hand, if not a little bit bigger. They hatch them in this big "box" and this one was resting against the side of the glass. I took this looking at it's belly. Pretty cool, huh?
So if you live around this area, this is definitely something to take the kids to and check out. :)
Ignore Caleb's funny look on his face. :) He was talking to Ambry and then looked over kind of quick when I snapped the pic.
This pic was the unbelievable. Check out how big this is! It was about the size of my hand, if not a little bit bigger. They hatch them in this big "box" and this one was resting against the side of the glass. I took this looking at it's belly. Pretty cool, huh?
So if you live around this area, this is definitely something to take the kids to and check out. :)
Labels: The Gardens
Friday, November 09, 2007
A couple weekends ago we made a trip up to the gardens. We hadn't been there in months and the girls love going there. Since Caleb had to work anyway, it gave us a good opportunity to make the trip. I got a couple of okay pics of the girls by themselves, but when I tried for one together...well you can see for yourself...
...oh my. Aren't they so cute? Little stinkers couldn't sit still for one second.
...oh my. Aren't they so cute? Little stinkers couldn't sit still for one second.
Labels: The Gardens
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Last Thursday I didn't have to watch the little 6 month old baby boy that I normally have. What a nice day off! I only had Lindzi to watch and I decided that we were going out. We first made a trip to the library and then went up to the gardens. It was a such a nice day for it.
Just as we were leaving, I noticed all these old cars parked around. There must have been some exhibit going on. The girls thought they were so cool so we took a couple pictures by them. It is amazing how different cars look now a days.
On a side note, I got a "new" camera! Yeah!!! I didn't have it when I took these pictures. Dustin and Robyn brought it over on Sunday. Thank you so much for letting me buy it from you guys!!!!
Just as we were leaving, I noticed all these old cars parked around. There must have been some exhibit going on. The girls thought they were so cool so we took a couple pictures by them. It is amazing how different cars look now a days.
On a side note, I got a "new" camera! Yeah!!! I didn't have it when I took these pictures. Dustin and Robyn brought it over on Sunday. Thank you so much for letting me buy it from you guys!!!!Labels: Ambry and Piper pics, The Gardens
Thursday, May 31, 2007
All right. Here is a pic of my little cucumber and watermelon seedlings and my garden.
We took a trip to the Children's Museum today. Oh, how I wish that we would have gone sooner. All of the month of May I could get in for free with my membership and I so wish I would have taken advantage. I guess I had the idea that a museum is a museum and would be filled with stuffed birds and other such things. I was SOOoo wrong! This place is amazing and so much fun. We definitely could have spent the entire day there.Check out this kitchen. It was filled with all sorts of fun things for kids.
Here is a sand area filled with all different kinds of trucks and toys.
Piper driving a VW Bug. I don't know what is going on with my camera, but the pics turned out a little blurry I though.
Sorry for the multitude of pictures, but I had so many more that I could have put up. I just wish my camera would stop acting up and take better pictures...or maybe it's me. Who knows?Labels: My garden, The Gardens
