Conference Weekend Part II

On Saturday, Grandma and Grandpa wanted to go to the Dinosaur Museum at Johnson's Farm. We learned that the way to determine if the dinosaur was a meat-eater or leaf eater was to look at its toes. If it had four toes, it was a meat-eater, if it had three it was the other. We later learned that most of the dinosaurs in this area were meat eaters. Anyway, the kids had fun counting the toes of the tracks.






When we got home, Lydia crashed on Grandpa. What a treat for Grandpa!









Sherrill and I went and did a little shopping and when we came back I found a bunch of lilacs that Nate had picked for me. My house smells wonderful!
















On Sunday, we wanted to do a little geo-cacheing and make our way to the Valley of Fire in Nevada. This was a lot of fun for the kids because it was like going on a treasure hunt. They had even more fun when we made it a race to see who could find it first. Luckily, we had Gavin to help us because he was really good at finding them.














Finding this geo-cache was a real adventure. We had to cross some railroad tracks and go down a dirt road that had a no trespassing sign. This led to a cemetary, that once passed, we were able to find the treasure. This was an official one that was full of Nevada pins and pencils for the kids. We had just cleaned out the car so we had to do some real digging to find treasures we could leave behind.





In the field where we found the geo-cache was a beautiful blooming cactus. I just had to share!












The last geo-cache that we found was called the Better than Walmart cache. I still don't know what that meant but we had fun finding it!











Just a few miles beyond the last cache, we got to The Valley of Fire state park. This was also a great time for the kids. There were tons of these rocks for the kids to climb with all this holes and nooks for the kids to climb into.









They could have done this all day if we had let them!












Lydia was not going to be left out. She insisted on climbing like the big girls everywhere she could!


















This trail we went down was full of petroglyphs. What was neat about it was we could climb right up to them and look closely. The kids could as well. I told the kids that this particular mountain looked a lot like swiss cheese.

Petroglyphs.

Although it was a full and exciting day, we were exhausted and everyone slept really well that night! The best part was spending time with family and creating awesome memories!