Winter Road Trip

Our family took a road trip to Utah and Wyoming to visit Sonny's sister and her family. Star's daughter Rachel was baptised. The kids had a really great time with their cousins. It's just getting there that sucked. Joseph became quite pissy whenever we strapped him in his car seat. Observe the photo to the right. That poor guy had to ride in between both of his sisters, who would often pick on him for entertainment purposes. Thank goodness for The Grinch. They watched it three times total and The Little Mermaid twice. During the third viewing of The Grinch, Audrey asked in all sincerity if the Grinch had a wiener. Ya...we did have other forms of entertainment. On our way up, we took the kids to that huge dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point.

The kids got to see actual scientists working on real fossils. The guy to the left wore head phones and rocked out the entire time, oblivious to any of us. What a job!

The kid's favorite part was the erosion table they played in. They all suited up in blue aprons and got to play in the mud and water. Joe was fascinated by all the toy dinosaurs buried in the dirt. Here is his line of dino friends. It got even longer after the photo was taken.

The girls tried out the tunnel they had. They're big chickens like their mama. That's as far in as they would go (about two feet). I think Audrey was sick and tired of pictures at that point. A kid can only say cheese so many times.


Here is a giant Megladon. As if these things are not terrifying enough, let's give it bloody jaws with it's mouth hanging wide open. Kids will love that. Sonny and I are extremely sensitive and awesome parents. We decided it would be a great photo to make the kids stand in front of it and scream. When they were too terrified to do it, Mommy got in the picture and forced them to do it. Audrey was really scared and Joseph was ready to move on to other exibits.

On a more cheery note, Rachel's baptism went really well. We're glad we made it to Lyman the day before becuase a small blizzard hit that night. Most of Daniel's family couldn't make it because the roads from Utah into Wyoming were closed. Here we are at the baptism with Star's family. The kids thought it was so cool wearing snow boots with their church dresses. The only one you can see is Joseph's Thomas the Train boot hanging out. I'm not a huge fan of character shoes, but Joe loved them so much he was wearing them when we arrived at State Line on the way home.

Now how many boys do you know that can pull off pink powder pants. Well maybe he doesn't, but Wal-Mart didn't have any black ones in his size so he was forced to wear Audrey's old ones. He looks humiliated doesn't he?

Here's the girls attempting to enjoy the snow. It was about 6 derees outside when this picture was taken. I think our family lasted eight minutes top outside our cabin before we headed back in. It was miserable. I wouldn't last one month anywhere, but California!

Sadly, we had to leave Wyoming before we all died of the bitter cold. Star traveled back to California with us to see her parents. This is the road into Ogden. Isn't it insane! Believe it or not, the pass before Cedar City was even a bigger nightmare. We saw several accidents and cars that had slid off the freeway into the center divider. I finally had a nervous breakdown when we reached Cedar City and Sonny found a hotel. I'm grateful to be alive and I'm grateful for Sunny California!