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Happily Uprooted answers WHY
We have been on the road for over a year and a half traveling with my husband’s job. Sometimes we are at a job site for two weeks and sometimes we are there for a few months. We have criss-crossed the US four times and visited 23 states and Puerto Rico. No matter where we go or who we meet we get a few of the same question over and over… today Happily Uprooted answers the WHY! Why do you travel? Why did you chose this life over a “normal” life? Why don’t you have a “normal” house? Why do you home school? Why are you doing this to your…
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White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
White Sands National Monument White Sands National Monument is probably one of the most awe inspiring places we have visited! The science behind how the vast dune fields got there is so interesting! While we were there the boys learned about the dunes and gypsum and earned their junior ranger badge for White Sands National Monument! There are over 275 square acres of dune fields. These dune fields are made up of a mineral called Gypsum. The gypsum is brought down from the surrounding mountains by the rain and are deposited into an ephemeral lake or playa. As the water evaporated the mineral is wind-blown…
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Gila Bend, Arizona in pictures!
Gila Bend, Arizona in pictures:
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Bountiful Baskets
[wp_ad_camp_2] Have you heard of Bountiful Baskets? Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op (BBFC) “offers a conventional produce basket every other week (or weekly) which is generally ½ fruit and ½ veggies. The monetary contribution is $15.00 and is generally worth $50.00 retail. Organic baskets require a contribution of $25. To participate visit http://www.BountifulBaskets.org and check the schedule to see when your state is available to make your monetary contribution using a debit or credit card. Then, pick up your basket on Saturday morning at the time and place you chose when you contributed!” The process is very simple and so rewarding! I get excited to go pick up my basket or baskets…
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Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art
Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art On August 11, 2012 we visited Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art for our home school field trip day. It was a nice, sunny day and the high temp was below 89 degrees. Just beautiful and breezy! We originally decided to check this place out because I found a website online that said it was free. However, when we got there it was not free. After touring Cheekwood we were thankful that we paid!! We absolutely loved it! Cheekwood is a botanical garden. Not just ANY botanical garden, but 55 acres of several beautiful, themed botanical gardens that opened to the public…
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Ticks, Trees and Tennessee!
Ticks, Trees and Tennessee! We are here in Tennessee and I would like to say we are loving it, but love is not the word I would use to describe our time here in Tennessee! We drove out here with the expectations of really liking it. We set up at Arnold AFB and got settled in. The longer we are here the longer the tall, tall trees start to close in on us! We were told how beautiful Tennessee is and how we were going to like it. Even though what you can see of it is pretty, we long for wide open spaces and distant scenery. The number one…
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Adams Canyon, Utah
While in beautiful Utah we took our first family hike on a trail called The Adams Canyon Trail. What we thought was going to be a 3 hour 3.5 mile there and back trail ended up being a 6 hour 7 mile trail there and back. The trail was pretty strenuous and a little scary in spots… there were sharp drop offs and steep, rocky climbs… both up and down the mountain. Overall we really enjoyed the hike and beautiful scenery. The next day Patrick and I were super sore, but the kids were hopping around just fine. We can’t wait to do some more trails!
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The throwing of COLORS! HOLI 2012
HOLI Fest 2012 Spanish Fork, Utah Saturday March 24, 2012 we went to the Holi fest… which is also known as the festival of colors! The Festival of Colors, also known as Holi, is two days of thousands of people gathered on the hill of the Krishna temple throwing brightly colored powder, participating in holy mantra and dancing to live music and bands.. Holi, the largest Indian festival, is held on the first weekend of spring to celebrate the beginning of the season. Colored and perfumed powders are thrown at each other and in the air to celebrate the new season! Holi marks the end of the winter gloom and…
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It’s just a car wound!
After Grants “accident” with the bunk bed my new car was feeling left out! We were on our way to the festival driving down a main street in Provo, Utah when a young driver tried to pull out in front of us to make a left hand turn. We saw her in enough time to be able to slow and swerve, but it did not save the car from a wound! (You can see where the tire is now bent) It was a minor accident and nobody was hurt… just stinks that it happened to my brand new car that does not even have plates yet. Tuesday we have a…
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Ear today… gone tomorrow. Grant 0 Bunk 1
This week was really eventful. Thursday night Grant fell off his bunk bed and hit his ear on the ladder. The result was that part of his ear separated from his head at the top. We got to make a late night visit to the local Emergency room. Grant did not even realize that he was hurt. He was super angry with us for making him leave the house, in his pajamas and without his boots! At Davis Hospital and Medical center they got us in quickly and the staff was really sweet to a very angry Grant! They calmed him down and glued his ear back together! He was so brave he…
