Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Dinosaur Land

We decided to take Friday off and take Avery to Dinosaur Land! So we drove her down to Vernal and took her to The Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum. It was SOO much fun! If you haven't been there already, we highly recommend it! It was a LOT of fun! Make sure you go in the warmer months though! There are great hiking trails throughout the state park to see cool petroglyphs and bones. Here are LOTS of pictures from our trip!
This is the femur of some "SAURS" I can't remember which. But it's huge huh?
Avery was running through this little cave for kids. It was VERY cute!



This was a really fun exhibit where kids could uncover dinosaur bones. Avery loved it! It was lots of fun!

This was fun as well, you had to match bones together. Very fun!

They also had a whole bunch of great books and puzzles and learning tools for kids. Avery loved the puzzles.

More puzzle fun!

They also had this fun theater where kids could put on little plays with the dinosaurs!

More play fun!


This was a very cool exhibit but everytime we took a picture, the alarm would go off, saying we were too close to the exhibit. We figured out later, it was because of the Flash!

Avery's hand on a fossilized Dinosaur print.

This whole wall was made with fossils. Very cool!

Wholly Mammoth, Gabe and Avery!

Avery loved that there were lots of things that she was allowed to touch and she couldn't ruin anything.

I thought that Avery would be scared of the dinosaurs but she LOVED them!

These bones were right in the middle of the Museum. Very Cool!

There were lots of petroglyphs in the museum and in the state park.

Outside they have what is called the "Dinosaur Garden" where they have lifesize replicas of the dinosaurs. Avery LOVED them!

These are very cool replicas!

Stegasaurus

Triceratops

T-REX!!!
I have a BIG HEAD and Little arms!
(like my mom! Hee Hee Hee! Love you mom!)

Brachiasaurus

I think this is a raptor!
Overall, it was a lot of fun!

DisneyLand!!

Gabe and I were so excited to finally go on a vacation to spend Adult Time together - Hmm. that didn't sound good... Well anyway, we left Avery home with her grandparents to play, so Gabe and I could play on the rides at DisneyLand and Universal Studios. We invited our friends Lindsay and Carl to go with us! We had a blast!!!

Here are our friends Lindsay and Carl!
They are so much fun to hang with!
Lindsay wasn't able to ride some of the rides because she had just found out she was pregnant! Yea! Congrats Linz!
Gabe and Carl's man crush Matt Damon!!


Me and the cast of Apollo 13!! Love these guys! Except- Kevin Bacon is a little smaller in real life! Gabe met him at the FYI movie that he made.

Here is the infamous JAWS from the Backlot Tour!


Here is a picture so you can look up my nose!


Here is the big guitar in the downtown part of Universal Studios!

Here is Carl, Lindsay, and Gabe eating our Complimentary Breakfast! Yummy!

This is the best picture of them all! Very funny!
We had a blast! Thank you, Carl and Linz for coming with us!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

August was BUSY!!

Oh man!
the Month of August was SOOO busy for us!
I am still trying to blog everything we did!
First we had Avery's Birthday!
The next weekend Eli, Jen & Gwyn came to town!
The weekend after that we went to Disneyland with our friends Lindsay & Carl!
This month we have done LOTS of fun things too!
Over Labor Day weekend we took Avery to Dinosaur Land in Vernal and we went camping with my family!

This is more of a list for myself of things I need to blog about!
Stay tuned for more!

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Avery Pic

Gabe took this picture of Avery the other day.
I thought it was soo adorable that I had to share!
(Yes, this kid is our life and that's why she is the only thing on the blog!)

My First PB & J

Avery had her very first Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich today!
She LOVED it!
She kept saying "Yum, Yum, Yum" the whole time she was eating it.
That's good for me since I'm an expert PB & J maker - there will be many more to come!





Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Avery Eating her Birthday Cake

Here are pics of Avery's first birthday cake (Well, cupcake!)
She was soo funny!
She didn't dive into it like most little kids. She started off by picking the sprinkles off one by one. Then we showed her how to eat it and she went right for it!




YUMMY CAKE!




Oh no! Now I've made a mess!

Avery's Presents!

Avery was so excited to see all of the presents!
She LOVED the different colors and textures of boxes and bags!
She was hooked!
Here she is, after she made her way over to the presents!

Here she is with a present that my grandpa gave her! It's a radio!

She plays with the radio in the car and LOVES it! She sings Row, Row, Row along with it.
She also tried to take it to church the other day.

Mommy is helping her unwrap her presents!
Avery LOVES clothes! It's hard to take her shopping wherever there are clothes because she grabs at them the whole time!

The funny part was, Avery's favorite part about opening the presents was the cards. She would open them and then go "Ahh" like they were the cutest thing that she had seen. So funny!

Here she is playing with her toys as she opens them.

Here are all of her presents after they had been opened!
Can you say CRAZY?
She won't need presents again for a couple of years!
A closer look at her presents!
Thank you to everyone who came to help Avery celebrate!
We are so happy to have her as a part of our family and we can't belive that she is
1 year old already!
We Love You Avery!
Love Mom & Dad