Sheboygan Children's Museum

Today we took a road trip to Sheboygan to meet with an old friend from college.  She and her family moved to the Milwaukee area last year so we picked a good half way point to meet and decided to go to the children's museum so the kids could play.  The last time I saw her was 10 years ago at our wedding so it was fun to catch up and meet her little girl.  The children's museum was very cool and the kids had a great time.  We grabbed some lunch at Pizza Ranch and headed home.  Thanks for a fun day Lu and Kelsey!

 Madi climbing through the tunnel across the top of the museum

 Clownin' around

 Crazy Clown

 Lu's daughter, Kelsey

 Wyatt and Kelsey loved the fire truck and would've stayed there all day

 Steering the ship

 Working on the oil rig, taking after Papa

 Future scientist?

 Fishin'

 Sweet Grace.  I realized there weren't may pictures of her from today but she was so busy off exploring that it was hard to get her to sit still:)

 So studious

 Even Wy went all the way across the tunnel

 Cute little garden decoration; I had to show my mom

 The kids got to make bird feeders with pinecones, peanut butter, and bird seed.  If you look closely, you can see peanut butter on Wyatt's upper lip.  Yes, he licked the knife.  We went to eat lunch shortly after. 

 Cool mirrors

 There was even face painting outside

 Beautiful butterflies

Wyatt hugging his new friend, Kelsey

National Railroad Museum-Our Frugal Fun Day

Today the kids and I ventured to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay.  Wyatt is currently obsessed with trains and the girls kept saying, "this is awesome, this is awesome."  The kids earned free passes to the museum through the summer reading program at the library.  Wyatt ended up being free anyway so we were able to pay it forward and gave our extra free pass to the family behind us.  The kids had so much fun.  There really are so many amazing things to take advantage of right in our backyard. 

 Mommy started the morning with a free iced coffee from McDonalds!  

It tastes so much better when it's free;)

Selfie on the train ride!

 The girls weren't quite sure about the smell on the trains (they smelled old).  Grace walked into one train and said, "eww, this smells like Uncle Doug!" 

 Like caged animals

 Snow plow for the railroad tracks

 Mr. Conductor

 There were some beautiful flowers outside the museum!

 Ready for our train ride!

 My favorite picture of the day I think:)

 Dining car

 Mail car

 This lookout tower looks out over the Fox River in Green Bay.  All 3 kids walked all the way to the top and back down!  Every time I looked back at Wyatt on the way down, he told me, "I comin' mama!" 

 The view from the top of the lookout tower! Beautiful!

 

 

From the Railroad museum we headed to Pizza Hut to use the kid's free personal pan pizzas they had also gotten from the summer reading program.  When we got there the server said we might as well hold onto them because kids eat free for the lunch buffet.  We all had their lunch buffet for under $9!  It was such a fun, frugal, day!  We went and used a bunch of coupons/discount cards I had in my purse and got some killer deals.  The kids got to have their fun and so did mommy:)