The Tangrens

Warning: Long post with lots of pictures!!! Continue at your own risk!

Saturday was Derek's summer work party;the famed Super Summer Shindig (S3 08). It was being held at Thanksgiving point and all invited were given the opportunity to get passes to go to all of the different attractions ( for lack of a better word) there. We had plans to take full advantage of that opportunity. As we were getting ready for the day Hyrum was begging to go outside and we saw that the neighbor kids had a sprinkler out. So we put Hyrum in his swimsuit and took him outside to play.
This is how he "ran through the sprinklers" most of the time. With either me or Derek.
He just loves being outside... This is how he looks normally.
But a lot of the time he's in his swimsuit he looks like this. Already sucking in the gut for the ladies. :) SO funny!

It is with great pleasure that we announce the return of the curls!!
After that we finished getting ready and went off to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point.
Hyrum spent most of the time looking at the dinosaur bones from the seat of his stroller although he did take the opportunity to explore some caves...
But most of the time he was out of his stroller was spent like this...
What can I say this little kid LOVES to push strollers. It's probably it's because he sees his mom do that everyday. But it must comfort him because he didn't get alarmed at all being in front of this...
Can you imagine a shark that big?!? They aren't sure of the actual size of the sharks because they've only found the teeth. I think it's because the bones are made of cartilage and don't last. If the teeth they found were front teeth this is how big it would be...if they were back teeth it would be bigger.

I have to admit that I wasn't that excited about the dinosaur museum. I felt dumb because I hadn't ever heard of most all of the dinosaurs they had on display there. ( I'd only ever heard of
the Tyrannosaurus rex and a Triceratops )

Then we went in the room with the prehistoric sea animals and there was this MASSIVE sea turtle skeleton. I found myself just standing there transfixed. It was a huge turtle skeleton and yet it was beautiful. It was something I hadn't expected. As I looked at it the thought just kept coming to my mind...this is absolutely created by divine design. It was amazing to me that it was so detailed...and beautiful. Truly the work of a master...THE Master.
I purposely left these big so you could click on them and see the detail.

After our trip to the museum we headed to the Shindig...
It was amazing. Snow cone , cotton candy ice cold soda, popcorn and churro booths were placed here and there around the grounds. In and amongst the big blow up bouncy things that Hyrum is still a bit small for yet. It was a bit much to take in all at once.


But he did take a ride on the cow train with dad.
Apparently it was a pretty wild and bumpy ride

Then he went on the Ferris wheel with Mom
It looks like we're having a great old time enjoying the rush of the fall but we're really playing pat a cake while we wait for others to get off.

There were random times throughout the evening that Hyrum would just have a meltdown. We couldn't figure out why but none of us felt fabulous because we were getting a summer cold :(
But we stuck it out till the fireworks that night. Hyrum loved the fireworks on the fourth of July but apparently these weren't as good because this is what he looked like about 10 minutes into them.
We headed home after the fireworks anxious to get Hyrum in bed and us too then as we neared home we heard something funny...
A flat tire...just as it starts to rain

Hyrum didn't mind though since he'd had his power nap...
Derek had never sucessfully changed a tire because he'd never been able to get the lug nuts off but he did this time so he had his first solo tire change!
It was a happy ending to a crazy and very busy day. GO DEREK!!!