Catching Up

Okay - so here's the rest of the stuff from October that I haven't gotten around to posting yet.

While Matt's parents were in town over Conference weekend, we visited Thanksgiving Point. It's a pretty cool place and they have a ton of different stuff to do, but each attraction has it's own price tag so I can see it getting really spendy pretty fast.

Posing with the Pumpkin Scarecorws. While eating cheese. Pepper Jack cheese (he loves it!).

First, we watched the glass-blowers at the Art Institute. They were working on a massive project for a man's home (ala the Bellagio's main lobby ceiling in Las Vegas). It was very interesting to watch, but I didn't get any pics. :(

All bundled up on our way to the Art Institute

Then we headed to the farm and Bryan had a blast there. He loved the animals and giggled in delight when he was able to pet a baby goat.



The farm had goats, all types of birds, llamas, horses, cows, almost anything you would expect on a farm, and we had a lot of fun making all the noises and trying to call the baby cow over. Matt's dad, Wade, finally suceeded in coaxing the baby cow over so I rushed over with Bryan to have him pet the cow. He was so cute and B would reach out and touch him, then pull his had back as fast as he could. That was until the cow bellowed about 6 inches from B and me. There were no tears, but Bryan wasn't going to touch him anymore!

At one end of the farm there are a few child sized buildings for kids to play in. Bryan's favorite was the jail. I know, scarey. We had to pry his fingers off the bars to get him out!

He's way too happy behind those bars!

After the farm, we headed to the dinasoar museum. It was on the spendy side, but well worth it - it was pretty cool and there were a ton of dinosoars and some great hands-on exhibits for the kids.

We wouldn't really throw him to the sharks....

Digging up some bones

Swimming with a giant turtle thingy

This is Matt's favorite pic. It's a "human" about to be squashed by a mammath

And my favorite pic - Bryan was crackin up because I had to lay on the floor to get the mammath in the shot. :)

And probably the best picture that whole weekend! Wade posing in front of his special parking sign :) Love you Dad!!