Butterflies!

On Wednesday, we went to a local farm that has a butterfly conservatory each June. They have a green house full of beautiful flowers and hundreds of butterflies. Gavin and Vivian were in awe of it all.

The coolest part was the "butterfly wands" we were given. They were just Q-tips dipped in Gatorade and the butterflies were drawn to them. We just held the Gatorade-soaked Q-tip under the nose of a butterfly and then the butterfly would climb onto our sticks. We could then walk around with our butterfly wands until they flew away.

She caught one!

Here's Gavin waiting patiently while one of the butterfly experts helped him catch one.

Gavin eventually got one, too!

Wes and I caught a few of our own!

After the butterflies, it was time to go on the infamous tunnel slide. It's VERY long and VERY fun!

At this particular farm (we come here once each season for different events), there are a lot of little activities for the kids to do like banging pots and pans with sticks, racing rubber duckies by pumping water into troughs, playing in a bunch of blown plastic houses, feeding (and petting) various animals, riding an old vintage carousel, and a few other things.

 Paxton slept the whole time.

It was a ridiculously hot, but very fun, day at the farm.