A Visit to BYU's Paleontology Museum

Brooke and Jack came for a visit while their mother and Aunt Jaycee went shopping for Jaycee's upcoming wedding. We decided to go to BYU and visit the Paleontology Museum and the Bean Life Science Museum as well as eat at the Creamery. It turned out to be a very fun morning.

Since Grandpa is the Chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences, we got to go back to the work area and work on the dinosaur bones.


Brooke working on a dinosaur bone with the abrasive micro-drill.


Carefully removing the dirt and rock surrounding the bone.



Jack's turn to work on the bones.


Using the abrasive micro-drill, Jack removes dirt and rock around the bone.


Jack loved the Dinosaurs, but when he say this little lifter, that is when his eyes started to sparkle.


Brooke and Jack petting the skeleton of the saber-tooth cat.


We were able to tour the storage room with thousands of bones and skeletons.


Taking a break by sitting on the ancient horns.


Grandpa Scott and Jack, Grandma Kathie and Brooke


Brooke and Jack next to the dinosaur femur bone.



"Look at that one."


Brooke and her beautiful smile.


Jack studying the wall mural full of dinosaurs.


Brooke knows a lot about this dinosaur that was found in Utah. It is the Allosaurus also known as the Utah state fossil


Getting a boost from Grandpa to see a little better.

A Fun Day at the Zoo

Scott, Megan, and I took advantage of the GREAT weather and 1/2 price tickets this weekend and visited the Zoo. Stephen and Lyndsy were taking a much needed and deserved mini vacation and so we had Brooke and Jack with us. The kids were SO fabulous and we saw a lot of fun animals. Although, we were sad to not see the Zebra in his field.

Grandpa has the Golden Touch

Don' make a sound, we just got Ben asleep. Need we say more?

Happy Valentine's Day

We had a fun Valentine's Day. Jack and Brooke were spending the weekend with us (only afternoons) while their parents, Lyndsy and Stephen, were working. Ty, Megan, Scotty, and Ben came over to join us (Jack, Brooke, Grandma Jane, Amy, Scott and me), I was so busy with the meal and activities that I forgot to pull out a camera. Megan took one photo of the boys in the new Jazz uniform they got for Valentines Day (Grandpa Ritter). We didn't get a photo of Brooke in her first sun dress of the season. She looked so much like a princess that that is what she became for the next hour.

Athletic and Musical! Wow what talent.