Felling Lonely...

I guess I could try journaling for once. I don't usually blog without pictures, but I just finished reading my sister's blog and she always amazes me in the fact she always has something to write about. And another thing... she is really great with words!

So I just got my kids in bed and I recorded the season Premiere of Smallville on my ancient VCR... (yes, you read that correctly) so I could have something to do tonight.

I miss my husband!! He has been working really long hours the last 2 weeks and I feel like we never see him! I know I'm not the only one in the world who has a husband who seems gone all the time, but I'm really missing him right now. He had to leave today at 4:00 for a young men camp out for church! He'll be back tomorrow about 1 hour before I have to leave for the evening!

I feel like I'm being so ungrateful in my sour attitude... At least he has a good job, and can support us and take care of us, and I don't have to work. Him being gone a lot is a small sacrifice to pay when you look at the bigger picture, but that doesn't mean I don't miss him and wish he was here now!

So I guess I better go watch my bad recording of Smallville before I let myself wallow in any more self pity!

The Dinosaur Museum (Sept 4)

Over Labor Day weekend we decided to take a trip to Utah and visit Tory's family. They live in Logan, and his cousin from Virginia, was also getting married that weekend in Southern Salt Lake.

We decided to make a little vacation and take the kids to the Dinosaur Museum in Salt Lake. If you've never been there before it was really awesome!

I didn't have high expectations (looking at big dinosaur Fossils...), But is was so impressed how hands on, and kid friendly it was! Not just a place to "look" but fun things to explore!

The first a favorite was the "Star Room" I didn't mean to cut off Tory's head but it was so dark in there I just had to point and shoot. It was a circular room with fiber optic lights. So walking across the bridge you felt like your were walking into outer space!

There was a little area where the kids can go through this little cave.

So much to see! They had full size T-Rex and Full size Brachiosaurus which took 3 pictures to get the full length shot... it didn't put them on this post though.

Stegosaurus...

This is the foot of the Brachiosaurus.

In this little area there were plastic toy dinosaurs. And wooden cut outs that your are supposed to match with the correct hole with the name of the dinosaur... basically a big puzzle.

In this area you get to learn first hand how "Erosion" really works!


A huge sand and water table where you can build up walls of sand and watch how the constant slow flow of water can change everything.

Chase had fun with it, but Tyler was not interested. Any thing involving water and sand is usually avoided!

The Sharks were thought to be this big in the prehistoric times, but the only thing they have to judge their size off of is teeth because, of course, Sharks don't have any bones to leave behind.

And the last exploration area was digging your own Dinosaur fossils. A large area where kids can brush away the sand to discover the dinosaurs hiding beneath! Again... Chases thing, not Tyler's!

Camrey wanted to dig too but we had a reception to go to and I didn't want her any dirtier that she already was! Next time, we'll bring a change of cloths for the kids!

Tyler's First Day of School (Aug. 31)

Tyler started pre-school this year! His first day was on Tuesday August 31. We had visited his class room a few times so that helped. And we had met his teacher last year when Tyler had speech therapy once a week; so he was as perepared as he would ever be.

When I dropped him off at the school I walked with him to class, and he went right into the class room and started to play, but as soon as I said good buy, he started to cry and came running to the door. The teachers usherd me out the door and reasured me that he would be fine, and they have my phone number incase they need to call me. And ofcourse they were right! No problems. He even sat good during circle time: He would start to get up but then noticed his class members sitting good, then changed his mind and sat back down! For him that is awsome... to notice the social cue's around him has been a challenge, so I was so prowd of him!

My sweet baby was being really good while I've been on the computer this moning, so I went to check and see why she hadn't tried to bug me yet (as she always does when I am on the computer), and she had fallen asleep on her favorite blanket on the floor!

It was so bright outside, I couldn't even tell the shutter on the camera hadn't opened all the way until after I took the viedo; and by then the batterie was dead adn I couldn't take another! But this was a video I took after Tyler got done with his second day of school!