Earth Day 2013

We had a beautiful day for Earth Day as we helped with two booths at the university Family Fun Day!  We always love to help with this event because the children can roam around the contained area after working the booths for a little bit.  I can easily see them as they visit from one booth to the next.

Today the university had several booths set up along with a plant sale.  Some of the booths were:

Ag Extension booth on Water Shed,
Birding (It was good to see our friends from the Audubon Society!),
An amazing gardening tower,
Solar cooking,
Information about a nature summer camp (with fun bowling game with t-shirts!),
Bunnies,
Frozen yogurt making,
Kayaking,
Face painting, Recycled art (rocket ships...Edward and Brendan won prizes for best art!),
Flower Pressing,
Beautiful Clean,
Recyclable glass,
and so much more!

Including, of course, our booths with the observation hive from our Beekeeper Association (along with David G) and the Friends of the National Forests and Grasslands (along with David C), as well as a booth about invasive landscaping (with John).

Yes...we were running between booths enjoying our discussions about our favorite nature activities with the large crowd that came!

Sean was especially helpful with handling the snakes because our two regular snake handlers (Amanda and Henry) were not able to help.  Amanda was at work (more on that later!) and Henry was sick with a cold and eye infection (He slept throughout the morning in the van!)

Sean also enjoyed showing off his love for bees by having his face painted with a honey bee!  Zaira was a trooper through it all as she enjoyed being in the middle of the fun until she finally gave out and took a nap!

As always...fun was had by all and we had to tear the boys away from the booths so we could leave.

Unfortunately, not soon enough to get to Amanda's work.  She was helping with her first fashion show for her new job!  It is hard to believe she has been working there for almost two months!!!   Today there was a big fashion show and she had to make sure all of the models were in their dresses throughout the show.  She had the help of Christina and they both said it was a lot of fun!