One more State Park marked off!

02/17/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

We got to check off another Oklahoma State Park off the list last month!

Lake Thunderbird State Park! It has a nice nature center which is always a plus for my kids!

We had already walked all around the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History so I chose a nice easy trail.

The Fawn’s Nest Nature Trail was a little run down but went right next to the lake and was a pretty little walk. The kids were excited to see a little bit of snow! The campground looks nice and the playground near it was a bonus. This would be a nice park to camp at!

I think we only have two state parks left!!!!

They are the Great Plains State Park and Quartz Mountain State Park!

Can’t wait to plan a trip to see them!

Museums/Events, My Family

Picnics, Chocolate, and Airplanes.

02/14/2019 Danielle Huddleston 2 Comments

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.

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?

Animals, Museums/Events

Solo Parenting for a week

02/12/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

Well I have been quiet on here because when life is overwhelming stuff gets cut.

My husband went on a business trip all last week and got back Saturday so I did what I always do.

I ran around like crazy.

I don’t like to be cooped up with 5 hyper kids, I would rather see interesting things.

1st up was the Tulsa Zoo

We actually went to the zoo right from the airport and then a friend met up with us a little later to help! I have pretty great friends, so many helped us out. It was a little chilly out so my kids were happy to be in the desert exhibit. The weather did not warm up as much as I thought it would so we had some cold kids but we also had a pretty empty zoo.
Heat never seems to scare okies away but 50 degrees will.

So that is my favorite time to go to the zoo of course.

How do you cope when one parent needs to go out of town?

Do you run around like crazy also or that just me?