Category Archives: My Family

Dallas Zoo

03/26/2018 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

Before we headed home from Dallas, we stopped at the Dallas Zoo.

It ended up being a great stop!

We have a local zoo pass that gives us a discount at some other zoo’s and we got 50% off!

That is a big deal when you are paying for 7 entrance fees. The zoo is set up so that you can do loops.

It was nice because we did not have to backtrack much at all and got to see everything in a shorter amount of time! So many of the exhibits were breathtakingly beautiful.

I felt like I was in a different place.

I definitely did not feel like I was still in Texas! It is always nice to wear out your kids before a long drive also… Those hands!!! So cute!

Even though I still felt like my kids needed to run laps by the end of our drive, I am glad that we started our trip home with a visit to this zoo!

I think they were a little tired for at least the first 30mins of driving 😉

Here is a video of our time in Dallas!

My Family, Running

Snake Run 2018 ~Turkey Mt.

03/19/2018 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

The Snake Run is a 3 & 6hr race in which you try to get as many miles as you can in that time.

Whoever gets the most miles in each one wins.

It’s a great event, put on by great people!

My kids really enjoy it!

And I really enjoy that it is held at Turkey Mt.

So I can take the kids that are not running for hikes!

These people make running for 3hrs and 6HRS look like fun!

Crazy.

My two that ran did over 9 miles in 3hrs and acted like they had barely done anything.

Maybe we need to buy a treadmill?

They have crazy energy!

A look back at previous Snake Run’s.

2013

2014 (my oldest first time)

2015

2016(first time running it as a family of 7)

2017(first time running for these two! First one I missed also)

2018!(2nd run for my second oldest, 1st time for our daughter)

They did awesome!

Museums/Events, My Family

Science Museum of Oklahoma ~OKC

01/30/2018 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

We finally made it back to the OKC Science Museum!

I think it was over a year since our last trip.

I love this kind of quiet calm area where you can sit and just watch the marble run’s.

So needed is such a huge place that is often loud.

My kids will really just sit and watch them for a long time!

We brought a friend with us so we had six kids for this trip.

So many great places to invent and explore!

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This girl is way cooler than me…

Yes I take a lot of pictures if I like light.

My second oldest will just stay in one area and quietly work.

Chaos all around and he does not even twitch.

I think he could do just one thing for hours.

I was already getting tired from all the noise and people so I found a little corner to sit and take pictures while Nick helped all the children do an art project.

I am super helpful like that…

He knows so much, I love watching him explain things to the kids.

We spent so much time in CurioCity that we barely touched the other parts of the museum this time.

I am so glad that we have such an amazing museum close to us!

It is such a gift to watch kids learn and explore(while they think they are playing).

This is an Oklahoma Museum Network museum so if you buy the pass you can get into this one as well!

We are a large family so we buy a membership to the museum we will go to the most and then add on the OMN upgrade.

We end up having to buy a few tickets at each OMN museum we visit.

It is still a really good deal though.

So many great museums on that pass!