lunch upstairs out of the wind and chill at Thanksgiving Point
Digging for the Stegosaurus fossil in the fossil dig hands on exhibit
I love this picture! It is before we got into the museum. He was so excited.
The Triceratops in the lobby.
What was this exhibit doing in a dino museum? We figured they ran out of good ideas, so we had fun playing with it. :)
Wow, that dinosaur is huge!
So, after our trips to Twin Falls, Idaho Falls, and Pocatello, we headed down to Salt Lake City to hang with my sister and brother in law. On Saturday we went to Thanksgiving Point, which is supposed to be the "world's largest" dinosaur museum. It was pretty rad and had a lot of hands on activities for kiddos! It was awesome actually!
Poor Esther has come down with Adrian and Elliot's cold. Yuck. But she is still a happy baby! I weighed her today: 13 pounds!
Follow the footprints to the dig site.
Velociraptor cake.
Here's the birthday boy and his new "spider man" bike.
Here's Elliot hiding out of the hub bub of it all. He was a little intimidated by all the activity.
Here's the cleaning station where the kids broke open their eggs with their chisels and hammers that Darin made them and then cleaned them off with a paintbrush and water.
Here's the "nest" where the kids dug in the sawdust to find the fossilized eggs made from salt, flour, coffee grounds, sand and water. 
Here's a baby dino peaking out.
Here's Adrian diligently cracking open his egg.
Under the "nest" of dino eggs was the t-rex dig site. Darin made a t-rex skeleton out of a mold with plaster of paris. Then he hid the skeleton in the sand. Too well, in fact. He had to take some of the sand out and the kids had to get some help from Damie and Adam too! Stellan, Eli, and Adrian were the hard core paleontologists and stuck it out to the end, finding all the pieces to the skeleton.
The skull!
