Mecca and a Cool Park

Jackson has found Mecca:

This Lego store is in a mall nearby us, and we have already visited the store several times, and spent a generous amount of time wandering the store, and an even larger amount of time listening to Jackson plan out how he wants to spend his birthday money.  Jackson is doing his part to keep the Lego Empire secure. 

Here's Mia building a Lego minfigure.  She loves showing off the "funny guys" that she makes.

Here are Jackson and Mia using the store's computer stations to create Lego stuff.  That eerie yellow glow is just a fun bonus to the Lego Store.  I'm working on a theory that the the kids are being conditioned to beg their parents for Lego products when exposed to the color yellow. 

We also visited an amazing park this weekend.  We took advantage of some cooler weather to do some outdoor stuff.  Here are the kids in the Nature Center of this park, dressed up in their "Naturalist" costumes. 

This park is really unique.  Everything to do there is nature based.  Here's Jackson channeling his inner Bear Grylls and building himself a shelter.  He's just lacking banana leaves for the roof.

Once his shelter was complete, Jackson moved on to perfecting his Cirque de Soleil routine:

 

Mia prepared a tea party.  I was elected chief taste tester.

Here's Mia rubbing a rock on her face.  I can't really explain her actions, I just laugh at them.

We even came back that evening to do a few hikes with Carson.  Here's the gang atop a giant mountain of chopped up trees.  Genius!  It costs virtually nothing, and the kids had a great time traversing a spongy mountain.

And finally, we leave you with this:

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