This Is Us

  With everything we needed to do, but, and get done for Brichette and Sam's wedding we didn't do much of anything else this summer. One thing we did was get dinner at Arctic Circle.  We got them kid's meals because they came with a dino soaker.  I thought a took a picture of them, but I did save the ad with a picture of them.  Haha... It will be at the bottom.  Anyway... in the meal there was also a free voucher for Dinosaur Island at  Thanksgiving Point - Lehi, Utah  in the Ashton Gardens area. There is a wonderful area that they are growing food! It’s wonderful! The kids had a lot of fun and it was so fun to get out of the house and play.  I was expecting to see more dinosaurs, but I know they are expensive. Also... We never did find the Utah Raptor that escaped.  If you happen to see it, please tell me where you found it. We also got some ice cream from the snack bar. Here are all the pictures I took.  If you get a chance, you should...

So we finally made it to the Dinosaur Museum the next week. According to them it's the largest dinosaur museum in the world. They were doing a promotion that every Tuesday in August you could go to any venue at Thanksgiving Point for just $2.00 per person. How cool is that? We are hoping they do it next year as well. We got there a little bit before 10:00 A.M. (that's when they open) and the line wrapped all the way around the building and almost reached the front of the line. It was so crazy. The wait to just get in was about 1/2 an hour, which wasn't to bad since it wasn't that hot yet. We finally got in, and had lots of fun. The kids have been there before, but they were probably to little to remember. It was when I was on Maternity leave after Xander was born, so I know he was to little, but Brichette might have remembered some of it. After we got done, we went to Lehi and had lunch at Wienerschnitzel. We just love that place.

A couple weeks ago Melissa, her mom, her aunt, and the kids wanted to go to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point, but due to someone getting up to late (you know who you are, LOL), it was way to crowded and they decided to go to the Zoo instead and would try again the next week. They wanted to get as many things done as they could before Brichette went back to school. Before they drove up to the zoo, they stopped at McDonald's and had lunch. There were so many baby animals... The elephant just had her baby, but couldn't come out for 6 weeks so she (baby) can adjust; Giraffe, Snow Leopard. It was so much fun. It was really hot so we used my mom's umbrellas, which the kids were very excited about. We got Ice Cream and drinks... I think that's a must when you go to the zoo. They also have the new Madagascar, which is where the white alligator used to be. It's cool they have a Fossa, which is what attacks the lemur's in the movie (that they think Alex the lion ...

Our friends Troy, Marchezt, and their kids came down, but Troy had to go back before we could visit. But the kids and Melissa got to visit with Marchezt, Kaedance, and Landon. We met them at Thanksgiving Point and went to the Farm Country they have there. It was so much fun to see them, visit with them, and have the kids out doing something instead of being stuck in the house or back yard. It is a really neat place, they have lots of animals to see, you can ride on the ponies or take a wagon ride, and a little store like place that you can learn about how vegetables and fruits grow and what they look like from a seed to the food. We were over looking at the pigs, and a couple of them would go roll around in the mud then come running as fast as they could to the fence at the kids. The kids were laughing so hard, and we think the pigs enjoyed them laughing, because they kept doing it. Afterwards we went and had lunch. It was so much fun and wish they lived closer so we could do mor...