Nathan's face when we walked into the foyer of the museum. He had fallen asleep in the van on the way down so he wasn't quite awake. All he could say is wow! This is awesome!
Digging for fossils was one of the highlights of the museum for Nathan mostly because he got to take off his shoes. The people in line before us were the examples of that. There was no convincing him to "just leave them on!"
No Kindergartner in the past 20 years in Grantsville could say his school year wasn't complete without Dinosafari Day. Nathan was so excited about the big day, starting more than a week away every morning he would wake up and the first thing out of his mouth was only...more days until dino day! He couldn't wait. The night before he almost couldn't fall asleep! When I heard that they were a few volunteers short I asked my principal if I could get someone to watch my class and go into help. After a few days he said that it just wasn't going to work out so I said "okay, that's fine I'm taking a personal day, find me a sub and I will be taking off the whole day not just a few hours!" I was a bit ticked off because it really would have only been 1.5 hours and all of the other 3rd grade teachers said they would take a few kids-that's just what we do when one of us needs to be a mom or dad! Grr! So since I was already making sub plans I decided to check Maddie out and we were going to make a day of it! A family day...at the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point! We had a blast!!! I can honestly say that this is one of my most recent favorite memories of being together we've had in a long time. Thanks for the fun guys! I sure love my kiddos!
Maddie and Nathan standing next to just the front foot of a dino skeleton. WOW! They were HUGE Creatures!!!!
Pounding open a dinosaur egg is always the highlight for every kindergarten boy!
Nathan heading down the slide (above) and checking out his loot from the big day. (below)
