Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. I love the food, the pie, the food, the pie... you get the point. I love that it is a time of gratitude. I also love that afterwards is the official beginning of Christmas season.

This year for Thanksgiving we had a Thanksgiving brunch at Joe's parents and then had dinner at my moms. It was a good day, though James was tired and whinny by the end of it all.

This year I'm mainly thankful for two things:

• My family, especially Joe who does so much for me and puts up with my craziness.
• A job where I can work from home.

Of course I have to leave you with a picture. I don't have any pictures from Thanksgiving, but I have a picture from the weekend before. My sister watched James so Joe and I could go on a date. Here is a picture she took of her daughter and James playing together. I'm hoping they will be great friends as they get older.

Abby and James
Abby was born December 8 and James was born exactly 2 months later on February 8

How To Be Amazing!

I wanted to post this link for reference. Its very inspiring, so feel free to read it too.

How To Be Amazing

Cleveland-Llyod

Saturday, James and I tagged along with Joe on a field trip for his class that he TA's for. There was about 40 students going on this field trip and the professor was kind enough to let us come too. First this in the morning we all boarded the bus and headed to Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. It was about a 3 hour bus ride to the quarry. On the way there we watch Jurassic Park; very appropriate for the occasion. James did very well on the trip. He is definitely a little adventurer and loves going places even if it's just to the store. The quarry is a pretty neat for people to go and see what digs sites look like. After the quarry we stopped at the museum in Price.

Allosaurus in the visitor center at the Quarry.

Part of the actual quarry that they enclosed for people to come and look at.
About half of the bones are real and still in the ground and the other half are casts.

The front area of the visitor center.

View of the Quarry.

I'm sure these ranchers don't see buses very often.

Had to wait for them to move the cattle off the road.

An accident on highway 6. Yes, the semi is on it's side.

 It was a fun little trip and can't wait till James can actually remember the cool places we go.