Shut the door! Gus is four!

The only thing that Gus wanted to do for his birthday was to break a pinata. So, we went to Zurchers in search of the perfect one. He is way into the movie "How to Train Your Dragon" right now so when we found the black dragon that was the jackpot for him! Although it's not toothless, the black and red winged dragon was good enough. So, we filled the thing and invited a few cousins over to help us smash it! It was great fun and everyone went home with a bag of treats. What's not to love about a pinata? Then we had cake and ice cream and opened presents after. Yeah for birthdays! Naturally the cake is a vicking hat(the best $.50 DI find ever!) on top of a mountain with dragons on it! What did you expect? Gus wouldn't have it any other way! Happy Birthday, dude!

We Love Dinosaurs!

Feb. 7, 2011- I have been carrying around some buy one get one free admission coupons for the Museum af Ancient Life (a.k.a. the dinosaur museum) and decided today was the day to go! I just took Gus and Leo and the three of us went down to Thanksgiving Point to see the dinosaurts. We had a great time looking at the big fossils and playing with all the interactive exhibits. The favorite by far was the water and sand tables. You could build islands, dams, or mountains out of sand and them cover them with little dinos, and trees. Then the constant flow of the water through the tables moved the sand around so it was always changing. Gus also liked the build your own dinosaur spot where you could change the parts of the dino to make him your own! There was a bonus too, that it was a fairly quiet day. No field trips, or school groups. If fact when we pulled up we parked in the first spot next to the building and I looked around to make sure they were really open because we were the only ones there! We got the whole place to ourselves for about the first 45 minutes. Which if you've ever been to one of these places when it's really crowded, you know what a blessing that was! Mostly it was just fun to take just the three of us and have a quiet, laid back day with the dinosaurs. It's been a long time since we've had an outing like that!