Dinosaur Museum!

Tim's sweet cousin, Emily, is in town.

Her mom, Elizabeth, has been such an encouragement to me and KNOWS what it means to have small kids.  I mean, she gets it.

Sweet Emily has come to be a part of our family for a few weeks and we are loving it.  We are getting to do so many fun things like go to the Arizona Museum of Natural History because I have another pair of hands to wrangle kids and keep things together.  Yay for Emily!

T-Rex!

Territorial Jail.

Gold Panning.

Side note on the gold panning.  Jared was SERIOUSLY disappointed when I broke the news to him that he couldn't actually BUY anything with the "gold" he had worked so hard to collect.  He felt totally ripped off.  Yes, Tim Barrett.  This IS your son.

Sweet Anna Jean.

Lunch!

Discovery center activities.

All this kiddos making their pictures. 

 Paleontologist in training.  Jared could have sorted these fossils for HOURS.

3-D Mammoth puzzle.

We did it!

Enthralled.

Success. (after the puzzle is put together, we had to figure out how to put it back "into the ground" - this was trickier than putting the animal together!

ICE CREAM!  Treats for the way home.  Fabulous day.  I LOVE this museum.