January in a nut shell

January isn't my favorite month. This January is really not up there with my favorites either. The weather has been blah, it seems all I have done is work, work, work and there isn't much fun to write about. BUT, I must stay with my goal to do this so here goes....

The highlight of our month probably happened on the very first day of the month...

Well, I can't get the pictures to load where I want them so at least they are there. If you didn't guess, the highlight of the month was sledding on New Year's Day. If you know my dad you know he has a TON of lawn and know that he is a little particular about his lawn so imagine our suprise when he told us to drive over the lawn instead of the horse pasture with the new Christmas four wheeler! I guess he could see in our faces the slight cringe the frozen horse turds were causing because there was only about 3-4 inches of snow. The lawn was MUCH better on the old behind! I couldn't get enough of the sledding. They all said I was the champion because I never did fall off even when Shawna took me over a big jump. In the end the fun ended because we were all frozen--almost literally I mean heck it was only like 5 degrees and after about 1.5 hours that temperature kinda gets to you. Thanks for the fun, family! You made the highlight of my month!

Dino Day! January 29,2010

My goodness these are sure out of order! You may want to scroll down to the bottom first. Sorry! But hey I did a post with pictures, by myself and it didn't get erased! Yahoo!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)