Dinosaurland

This past weekend we took a short trip out to Vernal/Dinosaurland with our friends Scott and Elisa and their kids. We left Miles home with my parents. Thanks Mom and Dad! It was greatly appreciated. We had been planning this for a couple months and the kids have been talking about it and so excited. We stayed at a KOA Kampground in Vernal. We rented a cabin there while Scott and Elisa were in the adjacent campsite. It was awesome. The cabin was two bedrooms. One had a queen-size bed and the other had two sets of bunk beds. I think it is really fun to be outdoors. I just hate sleeping in a tent and not having a real bathroom to clean up in. That's why the KOA was perfect!! We got to sleep in a cabin on a bed and there was a NICE bathroom with showers (I was going to take a picture but didn't get around to it). But we still got to have the outdoor experience with campfires, roasting marshmallows, and dutch oven. Anyway, I highly recommend it. We will be doing it again sometime next summer hopefully.

This is our cabin. We got one of Scott and Elisa's tent in it but it didn't turn out too well.

The campground also had a pool so we got to enjoy it that night

We grilled some hot dogs for dinner

Sara and Evan with their friend Elisabeth who is 3-weeks older than Evan

Dancing to none other than Hannah Montana

Chillin' by the fire

Mmmmmm.....marshmallows

The morning was a bit chilly

Playing in the big grassy field

The best thing about breakfast.......

the guys cooked it

Dutch oven breakfast......can you say heaven?

the nice lady who worked/lived at the campground took all the kids on a ride in her golf cart

getting the air out of the tent

there was also a nice playground for the kids to play on

they thought this slide was the coolest because it was so long and fast

Sara lost her 6th tooth in the car. She's adorable with her missing teeth

We took a hike to see some actual fossils in the rock. The hike was short and would have been okay if it hadn't been so hot. The kids, and the adults, just wanted to be done. I recommend if you are going to do it, make sure you do it early in the day.

One of the fossils of a dinosaur leg. Looks like rock to me.

This is part of a femur I think

vertebrae

Taking a break in the only shade there was in this vast dessert

the kids did some activities to become "Junior Paleontologists". Here the ranger is swearing them in.

showing off their badges

Utah Natural History Field Museum

digging for fossils

fossil of a turtle shell bigger than Kamri

Evan got right to work looking for hidden things in the exhibit. He was taking it so seriously I had to laugh.

The Dinosaur Gardens

Did you know there were 7-11's around millions of years ago?

Scary!!!!!

Then we drove past the Vernal temple. Evan asked where the temple was and I pointed to it and said, "Right there." He said, "That brown thing?" I guess they're not used to seeing temples that aren't white.

It was a great trip. We loved it. Thanks Scott and Elisa for suggesting it.

Second Grade

Sara started school last week. She loves school so she was pretty excited to go again. I can't believe she is in second grade.

Waiting in line for the bell to ring

With the exception of Malia, this is the crew.

She gets to go to school with 3 of her cousins and Evan this year.

It's cute how they look out for each other.

All Together Now

All four are now sleeping in one room. We need to get a smaller toddler bed for kamri and we had to shuffle some things around to make it work and it's a little snug, but it works.

They are doing remarkably well.

We moved Sara's and Evan's school clothes downstairs so they can get dressed in the morning without waking Miles.

Dance Recital 2009

My sister Misti had dance class again this summer for the kids. She taught them a dance for the boys, for the girls, and then a group dance for all of them together. The kids love it and look forward to dance class each week. A couple Saturdays ago we got together at the church and had the recital. They all did great and looked so cute up there dancing. I had never seen Evan do a learned dance before and he did awesome. Sara is so good at remembering the steps and looked great. And Kamri just looked adorable up there trying to be like the big girls and remember the steps. She actually did pretty well.

Thanks Misti! We all had a great time!!!

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Boys' dance to Halo

Girls' dance to Hannah Montana's Hoe Down Throw Down

Group dance to Beach Boys

The performers

They dispersed before we could get their teacher in there with them