Where We've Been and Gone and Done Today

We got up bright and early to pack a cooler full of lunch for the big kids to take to Catechism Camp; waved them out the door ("Here's your hat, what's your hurry, kids..."); then Mommy (um, me) milked the goat, cleaned the house and blogged while the boys watched cartoons; then we chilled out for a while and watched Winnie the Pooh and ate Frosted Mimi Wheats; after that, we packed up a picnic lunch and headed off to the Denver Museum of Nature and History, where we saw all our favorite (stuffed) animals -- polar bears, lions, monkeys, owls, and some prodigious dinosaur bones -- but we were so busy yakking and checking out all the manipulatives and videos that we forgot to take pictures.

But, we remembered when we went outside.

So, here 's a little bit of a picture record of the rest of the afternoon -- before the rains came (I declare, we're starting to feel like we're in Seattle these days!):

Here they are, my two cubs, William and Gabriel, climbing up to visit this Mama Bear and her two cubs in the park outside the museum....

And here they are checking out the life-size dinosaur outside the parking garage...

And here we are taking some time to smell the roses in the garden outside the museum...

And here's a little game we played called Try-to-Find-a-Rose-That-Matches-the-Color-of-Your-Shirt...

Gabe chose these roses to match his shirt; we think #2 is the closest.
What do you think?

And here are the pink roses the boys chose to match my outfit. (Gabe took these pictures!)

And here's William, who says his nose is tired from sniffing ~ and there aren't any blue turtle flowers, so when are we going home?