A Gift and a First

I feel like all of a sudden I'm playing catch up again - I'm so behind so here we go with lots of posts in a row :)

For Christmas this year, we got some of our cousins a trip to the Dino Museum and an I-MAX movie day - we had a blast!

Rio, Brinlee and Jax with Austin up front hangin' out in the "noise" room trying to be super quiet on the rocks. Let's just say four 3 year olds aren't the best at being quiet

Hello?

Jax was wondering why no one was talking back as he was listening

Let's see just how loud we can bang these mallets?

Brinlee, Austin and Hayden

The oldest of the Morris cousins Tyler being so fun and silly with Austin

What a happy face he has!  He loved hangin out with Ty

Rio - isn't she a cutie?

Rio and Brinlee on their "airplane" they said 

My kids favorite part of the museum - the tunnel with stars!

It is pitch black in the tunnel except for the little, tiny stars and my kids LOVE it!  They sing, "Twinkle, Twinkle" the whole time

It isn't Brinlee's favorite part but Rio made sure she loved it by taking her hand in hand through the tunnel about 10 times in a row :)

Can you tell they were shocked to see the photo light?

Austin making a sand trap for the dinos

Brothers working together - I love seeing that!

Kristin, Ty & Hayden

Jax, Rio and Hayden asked me to take a pic of them - this is their favorite "photo op" spot

Pretty girls

Jax, Rio, Austin, Brinlee, Hayden and Ty out front!  We finally got all of them in one shot but of course not everyone is looking - ha-ha

I asked the kids if they wanted to take a picture with Logan and Austin of course said, "YES!" so he and Rio decided they both wanted Logan on both of their laps

What a big boy he is getting to be right?

I love Jax's energy - never, ever a quiet or dull moment with him around

"Watch out!!"

Making the last stop in the museum at the sand pits digging up some fossils

My kids hadn't been to a movie at the theatre before so I knew this would be an interesting quest.

However... they did so awesome!

We had the theatre to ourselves so Kristin and I "talked" them through the movie and they were amazing!

We saw a great "pterosaurs" movie with no scariness or anything and they loved it.

Hayden, Austin and Rio and even Logan (he slept through the whole movie, bless him)

Jax, Brinlee, Kristin and Ty rocking their 3D glasses

We had such a great time!  Love you Gilbert cousins!!