Family Day

Last week we celebrated our Family Day, a day when spend time together as a family remembering the way we all came together. Our official Family Day isn't until the first Saturday of November but we decided to move it up a month this year in order to make sure that I could still get around with minimal waddling. This year we decided to take the kids to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History with intentions of checking out the dinosaurs.

First, we started off the day with our annual photo session. Not planning on boring you with the photos from every year, but here are Marcus and Will during their first day home with us and here they are today.






We got to the museum just as it opened. When we got to the area where you could see that lab where volunteers were working on the dinosaurs, we were the only ones around. One of the volunteers came out and let us touch and hold a rib fossil from a real dinosaur. Not sure how excited the kids were about that, but I was pretty excited!

There was a little hesitation on the kids' part when we started getting closer to the big dinosaurs. We had to remind them that all the animals were dead, which led to Marcus asking repeatedly if every single dinosaur was in heaven now. Marcus and Will both agreed that their favorite dinosaur fossil was the t-rex.


We threw in some fossil digging

and some lunch and did a lot of walking. We were all so tired by the end of the day! It took us all a couple of days to recover fully from all our fun.

In the evening, we watched videos of the kids taken when we visited them in Guatemala. Both kids were pretty interested in seeing themselves as babies. Later, Marcus and Will both got a little gift. We picked up a bunch of small items while we were in Guatemala to give to the kids for years to come. This year Marcus got a coloring book and Will got a small book on spiders that is all in Spanish and I understand none of it.


Happy Family Day to my wonderful family!