Miriam and Analee playing with dinosaurs and volcanoes.
Rebekah, Analee and Miriam looking at the robot dinosaurs. I was sure they would scare the living daylights out of one of my children, but none of them were remotely concerned with the roaring, blinking dinos. In fact, Winnie now has to insert a baby dinosaur into "Old McDonald" every time we sing it. (The baby dinosaur says a very meek "roar," in case you were wondering.)
Feeding fish and ducks in the pond.
Brushing sand away from "dinosaur bones."
Cute girls.
Analee inside the dinosaur skull.
Gwen going down the slide.
Feeding sand to the saddled dino.
Winnie with the dinosaur mask she colored in the education building.
Rebekah making a beaded bracelet.
Winnie and Grandma putting together a puzzle.
The animal Ana created.
Analee offering water to a parched dino; Miriam screaming in terror.
Grandma offering Winnie as a dino snack.
After a rough night in the hotel (Ana and Miriam fought over who had more covers; Rebekah threw up before she fell asleep; Andrea got next-to-no sleep for those and other reasons) and picking up Aunt Jessica from the shuttle (she had to work the day before), we went to the temple for our 9 a.m. tour and took pictures afterward.
Analee, Rebekah, Winnie and Miriam in front of the fountain. Whereas it had been hotter than hot the day before at the dino park, it was much cooler that morning, and it actually rained on us later. (I just realized that Miriam is wearing the same dress Analee wore to our last temple open house.)
The girls and I in front of the Ogden Temple.
Winnie went from this:
to this in about 30 seconds when I pulled her off the flower beds because she grabbed handfuls of dirt and threw them on the sidewalk.
Aunt Jessica with the girls.
The girls with Grandma and Aunt Jessica.
At the open house, I saw a fellow BHS Class of 2000 graduate, as well as two of my Scott cousins and their mom. It's a small world.
After the requisite post-temple-tour pics, we took the girls to the Treehouse Museum (which we visited back in 2010, but the girls were more than happy to spend time there again).
Rebekah riding her stallion.
Analee and her puppet show.
Miriam playing with knights and horses. Everywhere we went in the museum--the medieval corner, the doll room, the farm area--she found little figurines and played with them.
Winnie got stuck in the royal dress-up box.
There she is!
Analee writing her name on the chalkboard of the schoolhouse. She's very disappointed that she won't get to learn cursive until after Christmas this year.
After a quick visit with my cousin in Perry, we drove home just in time to unpack and repack for our first trip to archery camp (to be featured in the next blog post).
To see more pictures from our trip, start here.