Grandma Dell

As mentioned, Matt's mom came for Thanksgiving and stayed for two weeks, we had so much fun!  Mikelle, Jonah and grandma made home made chicken nuggets for dinner one night, and they were so good.  We went to the Denver aquarium, the Butterfly Pavilion (auntie Paula came along too), and The Wildlife Experience.  We obviously had Thanksgiving dinner and stayed up late playing the Wii.  She spoiled us rotten.  We won't know what to do after Christmas because first my mom came, then Matt's mom, then we are going to Utah for Christmas, then . . . we don't know, but things will certainly slow down.  The Butterfly Pavilion is like a bug/animal place.  We got to hold a tarantula named Rosie, we got to touch a starfish and a horseshoe crab.  Then we went into a huge heated room called the Tropical Conservatory, where there was about 1,000 butterflies flying around everywhere that you can watch, and sometimes if you are still, they land on you.  The Wildlife Experience is an animal/habitat/educational museum.  They had an exhibit called the Grossology lab.  It focused one the gross side of nature, like slime makers, vomit munchers, blood suckers, different animal poop and other gross stuff. The different stations were so funny.  One of them was about tape worms, and it had a fake toilet with poop inside and Mikelle and Jonah thought that was the coolest thing in the world.  Then there was a smelling station were you squeezed a bottle and had to tell what scent it was, like skunk, fox urine, deer droppings, etc.  and that was apparently really funny to Mikelle.  We had a lot of fun, and I am probably leaving a lot out because I am really tired right now and can't remember everything, but thanks for the great fun Grandma Ardell!!!  (sorry, there were so many cute pictures that I put them in a slide show).

P.S. I asked Mikelle what she wanted for Christmas, she said, "a Dora trash can, and a pet shark and elephant."