Vernal

In the beginning of December, we headed over to Vernal for Preston's baby Blessing!

They did it!!

It was fun to see David and Ronni's new huge house, Dave's Walgreens store and their new stomping ground. Mike and I got to go to the Vernal Temple too.

We went out to visit the Dinosaur Quarry. Toured the Visitor's Center and watched a short film first before going to the quarry.

Jess playing with the dinosaurs.

Everyone was working on getting their Jr. Ranger certification.

They reused an old freight car from a train and made it into this bridge. Truth be told, it probably cost more money to recycle the train than it did to just make a new bridge, but we are happy to save the earth?! The boys and Jess enjoyed looking for treasures beneath it.

A little hike around looking for tracks and footprints to get our Jr Ranger badges!

At the "Quarry with Lori"

We learned it is the only dinosaur park where they have found a complete Allosaurus skull. There is an 80-foot long mural that shows the story of these animals and many others that lived in the Morrison environment during the late Jurassic. There were several places where we could touch real dinosaur fossils that were 149 million years old!

HUGE dinosaur bone that we touched!

Brigham got real sick so he and I stayed home from church and didn't get to go to the blessing. He wanted to celebrate his birthday with Choncho so he had brought his birthday Pinata from Bountiful, but didn't feel good enough to get up and take a swing at it. He was good to share and let everyone else do it for him.
It was good for these cousins to get together!

Thanks to Dave and Ronni for a yummy, fun weekend!