A Visit from Grandma Christine & the Dino Museum

Karl's family has been in town this last month for his brother's wedding, so last week we were able to have a visit from Grandma Christine and Auntie Preah! I'm so sad that they live so far away and we don't get to see them very often, because Evie just loves them (even if it takes her a bit to warm up, haha)

Last weekend they came down for a quick visit (they've been sick and haven't been able to come, and Preah was getting anxious!) but ended up staying the night on an air mattress in our living room. Evie was so excited to wake up and see Preah asleep in our house, that even days afterward she kept saying,"Peah seeping? Gamma seeping??" it was cute.

Evie just LOVED having Preah around, she thinks she is the most fun, funniest, person ever. 

 

Evie didn't want to go to bed because she wanted to stay up all night with her auntie! So Preah climbed into Evie's crib and read her some books :)

Preah didn't even want to leave the next day either, but since they hadn't really made the proper preparations for a long term visit, they had to go back up to Layton. We did eventually make a deal with Preah that we'd go to the dinosaur museum after the weekend so she could visit with Evie again ;)

So, today we got to go to the Mueum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point! Anika and Leina even came too, so we had a lot of fun with the rowdy girls! It was Evie's first time, and I was a little worried that she'd be scared of the big dinosaurs, but she absolutely loved it!

Dinosaurs are AWESOME!!

There was a cool exhibit at the museum all about "Tinkering", it had all kinds of fun technical and sciencey things for kids (and Karl). The girls seemed to have a lot of fun with this one, but Evie was a little too young to really appreciate it.

Preah making her own movie :)

One thing that I think ALL the girls loved was the erosion table... Which is basically a bunch of sand with water running though it that you can play in. Preah and Anika got stuck in this area of the museum FOREVER, lol. Evie probably would have loved to hang out here all day too, but Mom got tired of holding her up to the table so she could reach.

Playing in the sand and water!!! I mean... Learning about erosion.

Riding her first dino!

Evie loved all the dinos, this was probably her first real exposure to them, but she EXTRA loved that they had sharks!!! Ever since she started her obsession with Finding Nemo she's had a thing for sharks. In the shark room she kept saying "Shark! Shark! Bruce!" (the name of the shark on Nemo)

 

Bruce!!

Look!! It's a SHARK!!!

The other activity that the girls all thoroughly enjoyed (we had a hard time getting Evie to leave) was the sandbox... er, the fossil excavation room. Evie thought it was great... by the end she was dumping the sand in her hair and her feet were caked in the stuff, lol.

We had so much fun at the museum, and THEN Grandma Christine even got Evie a cute little sea turtle (or "Crush turtle", lol) as a souvenir AND we got to go to Wendy's for some chicken nuggets (Evie's favorite). Such a busy, fun day!! So glad we got to spend some time with Grandma and the girls! Having family around is the best ;)