While trying to get a photo of Dave and the kids our events ad, a gentlemen offered to take a family picture of us all - that was nice of him..... only he failed to get the ad in the shot. Bummer!
Okay, Well, I've been behind in posting the lasted and greatest around here (I've been reading the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini and, not being the fastest of readers, it's consumed the majority of my free time this past month). The weekend of Jan. 17-20 was a long weekend since the girls didn't have school on Monday. I had seen an add for a dinosaur show that would be playing and thought the kids would enjoy it. Nicole has always been fascinated with animals and dinosaurs ever since she was little and Carter is now showing lots of interest in them as well. So we bought tickets, sent Cooper to a sitters, and made a day of it. The show was called "Walking with the Dinosaurs" and it was so totally cool! They had recreated in true to life size all the dinosaurs from the Mesozoic Era (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods). The host, dressed as a paleontologist, walked us through each era, and as he did, the stage around the arena would change to replicate the landscape of that time and the dinosaurs of each period would come out and interact as he explained their possible life-style based on their body shape and function. Thanks to modern technology their bodies moved and looked as real as anything, the only thing that gave them away a puppets was that on the "smaller" dinosaurs the legs of people inside, making them move, were exposed. The large dinosaurs had to have large motor/stabilizer underneath them. But we quickly forgot about that as they sounded and moved about so realistically. It was one of those experiences were photos simple don't do justice to the experience of seeing these dinosaurs in true to life size. (I think in some of the photos you can see the host to get an idea of the scale of things). Then,to complete our dinosaur weekend, that Monday I took all the kids to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. We met up with Kari and her kids and spent the morning looking at fossils, playing with their hands on dinosaurs, and digging in the dirt for bones. All the kids had a blast, afterwards we spent the afternoon playing at Kari's house. It was certainly a weekend to remember!!!
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