Category Archives: Museums/Events

Festivals, Parks

Beaver’s Bend State Park Folk Festival ~Hochatown, OK

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We went to the Folk Festival at Beavers Bend State Park on the last day of the festival.

That way we would be able to camp at the park that night.

It goes from Friday-Sunday.

This was such a fun event!

My girls loved the petting zoo.

My boys loved the blacksmith and carpenters. Everyone at this event was so helpful and were great with kids! Red Dirt shirts being made. They even let the kids help. She showed them how to play the spoons. We recognized him from other events we had been to. They had great music! Friendly animals at the petting zoo! They asked him to play every flute!

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I am so glad I finally made it for this event!

 

Check out the video I made of our visit!

Museums/Events, Wildlife Preserve/Reserve

Woolaroc in the Fall

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Woolaroc is a ranch and wildlife preserve that you can drive through!

They have a lot of different animals to see just from the car.
We saw so many interesting animal interactions this time!

Animals competing, elk bugling, ect.

I always feel like these guys want to get a piece of me…

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My mother in-law and I braved the museum with all five kids this time… It actually went okay. There are several exhibits that are interesting to kids. I let them all pick out a rock for doing well. My mother in-law braved the tower with all five!

They say only 6 at a time so our family is too big to all go at once!

 

They have a little petting zoo area outside, the indoor one is not always open in the off season. Not all the animals are actually friendly.

My mother in-law and one of my girls got bit by these guys…

I really wanted to wear out my kids for the drive home so we went on a hike on their trails also. Not everyone was happy about going for a walk but it worked, we had a quiet drive home! There were a LOT of centipede looking bugs all over the path.

Not all of my kids were happy about that…

Ha

My boys talked THE WHOLE WALK. We went on the 1.5 mile loop, which was a little longer than I meant to do but it was fine.

I would definitely check out the trails while there.

They were pretty.

Bison and Elk roam the ranch.

It is pretty amazing to drive so close to them.

I loved the pretty fall colors with these regal guys. I love visiting Woolaroc when they are holding their history events like their Spring Traders Encampment, Fall Traders Encampment, or Kid Fest!
Have you been to Woolaroc?

 

History, Museums/Events, My Family

This is my normal and Pawnee Bill Ranch

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We went to the “Fall In Love with Pawnee Bill Ranch Festival” this year. They had a blacksmith work the event and he was amazing.

Several of my kids could have stayed and listened to him all day. He was a great teacher. Some of the things to do needed tickets but they had free activities also, including a wagon ride! The wagon ride took us right into the Bison and Longhorn herds! We had actually just dropped my husband off at the airport for a work trip and my mother in-law was with us.
I struggled with needing to have her come and needing extra help while Nick was gone but decided to accept it as what our family needs and that it is normal for us. Sometimes it is hard when you feel like your family is not “normal” but it is normal.

 

Just a different kind of normal 😉

I heard someone say that on instagram and latched onto it.

The last time he went was a bit of a disaster but this time went so much better. I am so thankful for lots of fun events and places to go like this one to help the days go fast! I had not been to the Pawnee Bill Ranch before, it was smaller than Woolaroc but still a fun stop and the fall event was a great distraction! The boys really embraced the “lookout” part of this tower 😉 I would really like to attend a Wild West Show at the ranch someday.

They hold it every spring and I think it would be so much fun!

    Do you feel like you are not “normal” sometimes also?

Know that you are not alone.