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My Family, Parks

Family, Parks, and Nature Centers

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On the last two days without Nick(he was in Poland for a week), I was feeling burnt out.

So on Friday I decided to not go anywhere in the morning but did visit my parents who were in town in the afternoon.

Afterwards we went to the Washington Irving Park and I noticed that this nature area that I have seen for years finally had a trail in it!

It was pretty short but with this short hike and walking around the park I felt extra confidence to attempt taking all five of my kids into a store. We survived the store and I actually felt so good we ran into ANOTHER STORE! I know! Crazy, right? We played outside until dark because I feel better outside.

Ha

I would have prefered to stay home again on Saturday but that did not seem like it would work so we headed to the Fort Gibson Wildlife Management Area.

We were not there at a great time to see animals and I could not find a good place to go for a walk so we went to the Sequoyah State Park nearby. It had been a little while since I had been and the last time it was summer and TONS of ticks so I forgot how great it is. They want to going camping there now. They played on the playground, went to the nature center and went for a hike! The girl at the nature center was awesome with my kids and their thousands of questions. She told us all about the animals they are keeping there and it was a great way to end our week!We went on the Whispering Pines Trail and it was pretty.

We picked Nick up from the airport that night!

Everyone was super happy to see him!

Especially me…ha

Museums/Events, My Family

Picnics, Chocolate, and Airplanes.

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The second day of Nick being gone we drove down to visit with friends and explore their ranch they run.

They have hiking trails, beavers, and lots of space so it worked great!

We even got to see wild hog prints on our hike!

And I only got us a little lost…

They were actually really excited to have a picnic but eating faces are always awkward.

HA

Meanwhile, Nick was working and taking pics of stuff like this!

On Wednesday, two of my friends took four of my kids and one of my daughters and I got to run around to stores on a mommy daughter date!

We found a bunch of Vegan chocolate at Sprouts!

On Thursday one of my same friends took one of the twins while I took the other four to the Tulsa Air & Space Museum!We have a membership there that expires this month so I wanted to be sure and use it.

The only complaint I have about this place is there is no scavenger hunt or anything like that to help my kids explore the whole museum.

They basically just want to check out the hands on exhibits and then they are done.

We can spend a lot of time exploring even a tiny museum if there is a scavenger hunt type setup there.

Sometimes I will just buy postcards at the gift shops beforehand and have my kids find the thing on the card.

I kept meaning to put some time into making a scavenger hunt for here but never got around to it.

They spent most of their time up in the kids area playing the drone flight simulator games.

I am thankful we year round school so I can take a week off when needed.

Our official week off landed on the next week(this week) but we just did it while Nick was gone to make things easier.

Do you have any tricks to make museums more interesting for kids?