Butterflies, Tarantulas, Gnomes & BYU

We headed off to Denver for a quick weekend visit to see the Jr's - this time we brought along a little surprise! Annie got some brand new shoes and as a result was unable to walk very much - she ended up hitching a ride with Papa and all her luggage! It produced quite a few comments from the passerby's - lucky girl Ah, together at last -

Berlynn is helping little Nixon learn to crawl, he's growing SOOOO fast
All packed up (and in) Papa's rental car - off to visit the Butterfly Pavilion

Rosie, the tarantula, lives at the Butterfly Pavilion and Berlynn (so brave) was there to let him crawl on her arm

Look at the big grin (so proud) - how many 6 year olds can say they've held a tarantula? She even got a sticker -

Mom had to follow the example of Berlynn, she was also brave and let Rosie crawl on her too!

Here, we are looking at "glow in the dark" scorpions - they were wild!

They even had starfish (more in our comfort zone) to touch

On to see the butterflies -

We have been to several butterfly exhibits before but NONE as neat as this one - there were so many butterflies, and they were all beautiful

I gave the girls my camera and I can tell you - I have a million pictures of butterflies -

And cute kids!

While we were having all this fun, BYU was also having fun with San Diego State - can you say 80-67? National TV?

We visted the arcade for a little while, while waiting for the movie - Brandon, Ezra and Berlynn are enjoying a virtual roller coaster ride

Yeah - skeetball!

Happy Nixon

Gnomeo & Juliette - a true love story!

Did you hear me? 80-67

We made a cake and cookies (yes, those are cookies) with the Easy Bake Oven

Kisses for Grandma!

The last night of a very fun filled Denver weekend!

Thank you B&J for a great time!