austin&kelly: #195

I just noticed that this post is #195, where has the time gone? And I know it's been a while since my last post, a nasty flu disrupted our life the past two weeks and I'm finally recovering (ie, the house is back in a livable order, I've finished up projects that were due and the kids aren't hanging on me 24/7). Last Tuesday was Fiona's 4th, Thursday I put together the Relief Society Birthday celebration for our ward and Friday was the kindy 500. There's a lot to catch you all up on but I didn't want to do one monster post so I thought I'd take the next few days since there is relatively little planned this week (whew, breath deeply) and make several catching up posts.

Last Monday we decided to celebrate Presidents Day by taking the kids to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum. We love this place! It's nice that Austin usually has these breaks from school off, too. So we played in the water table building dams and drowning dinosaurs, we found out that our family's total weight (plus one or two small curious toddlers) adds up to that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, I laughed as another mother pulled her small daughter out of the megalodon's mouth (thinking how glad I was that it wasn't one of mine this time), we had a mild meltdown because there were not quite enough paintbrush nubs for everyone to excavate dino bones with, and we imprinted 2 pennies with prehistoric and totally cool images. All in all it was good times.
For lunch we decided to splurge and went to Coney's in American Fork. I LOVE custard! Coney's custard is pretty decent, not the best I've had but by far not bad. They had cookie dough as the daily flavor. I got a large as well as took a couple spoonfuls of Lydia's chocolate while she wasn't looking. I was pretty sick that night but it was well worth it, I told Austin I'd do it again any day. So here are the pics. enjoy and check back again for more updates this week. We may even make it to post #200 by the weekend ;-)