Crepes & Dinosaurs

The day after Christmas, Grandma and Grandpa invited everyone over for our family's favorite breakfast--crepes.  Growing up my dad would always make a big breakfast on the weekends and crepes was our favorite.  The grandkids like it just as much--who wouldn't like a thin pancake filled with fruit, whipped cream, powdered sugar and brown sugar?  Usually some bacon or sausage is there for a side, but the crepes are the star of the show.  My dad starts cooking them early and keeps cooking until everyone is full--sometimes he has to save out a few for himself or he wouldn't get any!

At many of our family dinners (or breakfasts) we let the kids eat first--they are gone in a few minutes and then the adults sit down to eat.  It works out surprisingly well.

Most of the kids love Mitzi.  She is so great with all the trouble the kids give her.  I love this picture of Ellie with her.

After breakfast, we all headed up to Cartersville (about 1.25 hours away) and went to the Tellus Museum.

They have a huge dinosaur skeleton in the lobby--Alex was incredibly impressed! 

The museum has a mix of things to do.  There was a planetarium show--Matt took Caroline and Carter to that (along with most of the adults and older kids).  There was a dinosaur room with all kinds of dinosaur fossils.  There was one fossil you could touch--then when you lifted the description next to it you found out it was dinosaur poop....Alex LOVED that.

We then went to the hands-on area of the museum.  The others joined us there when the show was over.

After playing we mined for gems and then searched for fossils

You could get as many of the little gems as you wanted, and each person was allowed one fossil.

The museum also had a huge area filled with spacecraft.

Aaron's favorite was the train they had in the vehicle area.

walking back to the car--it was a long walk and FREEZING cold!

I love this picture of Caroline