Museum of Ancient Life

After we visited Grandpa Brady for a few days we went up to the Provo area. On the day we arrived we went straight to the Museum. It's fabulous! Lots of things for children to touch and try out, plenty of dinosaurs to compare yourself to and things like an erosion table that shows how water can erode sand and such. (It had palm trees, sand and water.) This was our favorite and was where we spent most of our time. They have a sandbox with bones burried in it that you use a paintbrush to uncover it with. We were at the museum for hours!! Then we hit the shop where Tersa, Keddi and Shinara got stuffed dinosaurs and Mardi got a giraffe carved out of marble. The reason she got a giraffe was that before we began our dinosaur tour we watched one of their 3-D movies. It was a wild life tour through parts of Africa. Do ya love the glasses?

Trip to Utah

We love our October visit to Utah to enjoy the........ fall?!
Yep, grandpa's house in Monroe, Utah got some snow last Wed. night and we played in it for a bit before heading further north to Provo on Thursday. Mardi and Shinara built the "snowman". He was about a foot tall (before he melted.) The day before had only gotten up to 48 degrees and Shar didn't like it! She came in and out for a good hour or so. She would only stay out for 2-3 min. and would come in for 5-10 min. She's a desert rat for sure! And I think I may have converted. I didn't enjoy the "bitter" cold at all. (I know! Some family and friends are snickering at that!) More pictures and updates to follow.

DIVA

I know, she's had a lot of blog time lately. First Tersa was in the spotlight and now Shar. But, are you kidding me?! Just too dang cute!!


We're headed to Utah tommorow for a week so, we won't have any new posts til we get back. We love ya!

Little sisters

I went outside to check on everyone the other day and this is what I found. Shinara being put to good use by her oldest sister. And no complaints from the "horse" either. Gotta love it! (To be fair, Tersa took her turn too.)

Bird Sanctuary

Yesterday we went up to the northwest part of Las Vegas because we had been told of an orchard where you can pick out your Halloween pumpkins and also participate in picking the fruit if you like. Mardi had her last appointment on her knee (all healed over!) and since we were halfway there, mom decided to take us. The appointment took much longer than needed and after stopping at dad's office for a bathroom break, we ended up getting there just as it closed! It closes at noon. Well, we had stopped at the wrong place first which turned out to be a bird sanctuary with the same name as the orchard. So we went back to the sanctuary and took a look around. Not only do they have birds, but some farm animals as well. The girls got to see and touch miniature horses, pigs, goats, donkeys and llamas. We saw tons of very loud tropical birds and a few would say "hi" or "Hello" when you came up to the cage. One even laughed. I turned around looking for the source of laughter when Mardi pointed out that it came from one of the birds! We saw ducks and geese, some tiny little birds, pet kind of birds and emus and ostriches too. It turned out to be a lot of fun which is good since I hate driving a long way for nothing!


I wonder if there is a stay-at-home mom sanctuary. There is... bathtub... but only after children's bedtime! (Or a good friends house. Assuming her kids have gone to sleep.)