Butterfly Fun!

We received a Butterfly garden kit for Christmas this past year and we decided to try it out. We ordered the caterpillars on line and they came in the mail. We received them on May 21.

They come in a cup and feed off the stuff in the bottom of it.

They seemed to almost double everyday. I was surprised how fast they grow.

Eventually they started to hang from the lid of the cup.

they started to build their cocoons.

It didn't take long to build the cocoons only about 24 hrs or less each.

We then transferred the paper lining from the lid to the butterfly cage.

I thought it would take two weeks of being in the cocoon before they would come out as butterflies. (I guess the Hungry Caterpillar book is wrong) They came out in about a week. On June 9th.

We fed them orange slices and watermelon.

Today June 14, we woke up and one of them had died, not sure why. Anyway we decided it was time to let them free. So we went to the near by park.

Dean didn't really want to let them go.

He loved to chase them after the were out.
In fact the first one landed under his feet and had a sort free life.

Check out this 2 min video of us letting them go.

Memorial Day

For Memorial Day this year we went to Brigham City with Rob's sister and her family. My mother-in-law was born and raised there and they have a lot of family buried there. We also went out to Promontory Point. This as any of you that know my son, knows this was the highlight of our day. Here are some pictures of our adventure.

They did a reenactment of the ceremony to the best of their knowledge. It was pretty good.

The original trains where both sold for scrap of a $1000 each, so these are remakes. The only problem is they had to go off of pictures, because they had nothing else to go off of. They believe they are accurate to a .25 of an inch of the originals. And they are painted the same.

Dean always has his fingers in his mouth in pictures because he has to make sure he is smiling. I'm not sure why?