More Giving Thanks…

While my Dad and Rachel went to visit an Aunt in Nephi, the rest of us, except Ken - the poor guy has a job :-) - went up to Thanksgiving Point again.  This time we packed a lunch - roast beef sandwiches on homemade bread, YUMMY, with some apples and what ended up to be stale cheese pretzels, NOT SO YUMMY!

At the dino museum I tried to get this picture of my sister with Mark and Spencer, but since I had to do it without a flash, to get the background not to be black, the shutter had to stay open for a while.  I guess Spencer just couldn’t wait that long as you can see him walking out of the picture.

Spencer wasn’t quite so interested in seeing things this time so I took him to the very end that we didn’t get to last time.  He got to play in the sand digging for dinosaur bones.  Actually he mostly re-covered them so someone else could dig them out. This huge shark is just amazing…I mean….it’s huge! Getting wet was the next stop while we waited for Dad and Rachel to show up. To me, this is just gross, but he’s still alive, so I guess it really didn’t matter. Jessie is so funny.  She’s good at making me smile.  I hope Noah can look down and smile with me.

I noticed I hadn’t gotten a picture of Mark yet…yes, that’s Abbie’s hat he’s soaked.And Karina needed a drink…Oh, the other cool thing we found this time was a nest of baby birds by the bathrooms. I just can’t get over how beautiful these water lilies are.  And check out the bee, isn’t that cool!

We finally meet up with Dad and Rachel, but by then Mom had already left to take Laura to the airport.  So we enjoyed most of the other flower gardens without Mom.  The kids were so excited when we saw this Monarch and boy was it beautiful.  It was so orange it almost glowed. Tired of just “looking” my kids found this lovely grassy hill and rolled down it again, and again, and again, and just one more time, and one more time…Man, they have these flowers everywhere and I just love them!  They are so bright and happy.  I think next year we’ll get some to plant. We took a little break at the Rose Gardens.  It was quite a warm day, around 100.  It was a really good thing we took some water bottles.Here’s Jessie at the Secret Garden…she got a little too close to the flowers. OK, I promise this is the last flower picture for this post.  But doesn’t this remind you of a pineapple, kind of?Last of all, we were lucky enough to be there on a night with water games.  And lucky enough most of my kids still had their swimsuits on under their clothes.  So they got another chance to get wet.  I think Conrad went the fastest, and Mark tried to be creative and roll down the slide just like the hill earlier, but it didn’t quite turn out like he had planned.  Lucky us, Mom and Dad picked up pizza on the way home so we could just eat and go to bed.