Jazz N' Blooms

We attended the City of Farmers Branch Jazz N' Blooms last weekend. The city always does such a wonderful job with their events, but this one has to be one of my favorites. The weather was beautiful and the kids had a great time.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the day:

The kids got to shovel dirt in wheel barrow and dump it in a flower bed. Addison really enjoyed this, we had a hard time getting her to leave this activity.

The had turned a haystack into a ladybug. It was really cute!

There was also a painted "river" that the kids pretended to ride boats through and at the end they got a treasure.

Isaiah was pretending to swim.


The petting zoo was a hit with the kids. Kate in particular, just loved the animals. She's going to be the child that brings home all the stray animals. She is a girl after her Papaw's heart!

There was a pair of ducks that really hated to be parted and one kept trying to go over and "snuggle" with the other one. Kate was very upset by this and couldn't understand why her duck would want to leave. So she put her hands around the duck's neck to keep him from moving. She was trying to be sweet, but it really doesn't look sweet. Don't worry I made sure she didn't hurt the little duck.

Eventually, Kate let the duck reunite in the lap of her older sister.

Yes, the little chick pictured below is blue!

Isaiah loved feeding the goats.

There was also this really neat life cycle of a butterfly exhibit. It started with the cateripillars.


As the caterpillar grows and sheds it skin it encloses itself in a chrysalis.

Then it becomes a beautiful butterfly.

It was very well done and as a science teacher, I loved it!

Over by the Life Cycle of a Butterfly exhibit were these cute little flowers that had ladybugs on them.

Kate was just fascinated with the ladybugs and even though I told her no (See that sad face?),

she proceeded to pick some,
and then count them.
Don't worry she only took two and I was able to get them away from her and put them back without her noticing.

The kids enjoyed eating popcorn with Papaw and Gramma.

And last, but certainly not least, Isaiah and Addison (Katelyn wanted nothing to do with it.) enjoyed meeting the Easter Bunny.

We all had such a wonderful time and can't to go again next year.

Until later,
Melissa