We ended up bringing Levi to bed with us around 5:45 this morning. We had tried everything to get him to rest and we were exhausted. He slept great as long as he knew we were close. By 7 Todd was up and going so the rest of us followed along shortly after. We ate a hotel breakfast before checking out. We started by getting gas. Of course we decided on the Sinclair station since their "mascot" is a dinosaur. We took Paul's photo by the sign and found that they had blow up dinosaurs for sale inside. It was [View Full Entry]

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It was a big day of driving so we wanted to get an early start. Levi was the first one up about 7:20. He had only been up once in the night and didn't really need anything, just some reassurance and refill of water (even though he wasn't out). We were on the road about 9:30. It was a little later than we hoped, but it would work. Sarah sat in the back with Paul for the first parts of the drive to help him with homework. Our first stop was the Bonneville Salt Flats rest stop just east of [View Full Entry]

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Paul did finally fall asleep last night, but it took Sarah lying in bed with him a few minutes to help him relax. Then he was up and ready to go by 7:00 am. Levi, after being up in the middle of the night and just wanting to be held, did sleep in though. We took turns getting breakfast, donuts and sugared cereal, from the hotel lobby. Paul was even issued a Dinosaur Hunting License for any live dinosaurs he would find in the area. After checking out we headed a few blocks down the street for the Utah Field House [View Full Entry]

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After a solid night of sleep, we had a somewhat pathetic hotel breakfast before driving south out of Rock Springs and back into Utah. Our first gorgeous views for the day were of Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. We enjoyed the beautiful scenery and drove over the dam before stopping at the Red Canyon Visitor's Center to get more information and walk along the rim of the canyon. The park rangers were very excited to see us and give the kids free Smokey the Bear stickers, bookmarks, and balloons. After our short walk along the rim, we had our picnic lunch [View Full Entry]

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After yesterday, today was bound to be a little bit of a let down. We contemplated getting up super early to hit the road but instead decided that getting up by 7 and on the road by 9 would be perfect. Luckily, Levi got that memo and was the only one to follow through on the "get up by 7" portion of the plan. He was up and ready to party by 7. We were forced to join the party and start our departure. We got on the road around 9 and started the extremely long and sometimes painful (literally) drive [View Full Entry]

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Today was packed tight with new adventures! Both boys got up once in the night to request a refill of their water cups but otherwise everyone slept ok. After a hotel breakfast, we were on the road around 10 am to drive the 10 miles to the Crazy Horse Monument. The mountain carving for Crazy Horse will be the largest in the world, but is still in progress, only the face is finished. It has been in the works for over 60 years now. Paul got to take home a piece of the rock blasted off the mountain. By noon we [View Full Entry]

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It was nice to be in a suite again. Unfortunately, Levi was up 4 times during the night and as a result, Sarah was up 4 times too. Poor Levi. He continued to be a little hot and needing extra love and help finding his sleeping friends in his bed. By morning though, he no longer felt like he had a fever. The hotel breakfast was good and we all got out of bed in time to enjoy it. After breakfast, we got back into the car to head south to Wind Cave National Park. We took the 11:30 Natural Entrance [View Full Entry]

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The adventures of today started in the middle of the night when Levi woke up with a fever. He was up twice and was hot and irritable. Luckily he was a pretty good sport all day and we were able to force some medicine into him as needed. He really wishes he could get normal naps in his bed. He never naps very well or very long in the stroller or the car. Poor kid! Despite our many efforts to get an earlier start to our day, it was still 10:15 before we had the car re-packed and everyone loaded up. [View Full Entry]

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We started our second full day in Denver with sleeping in. No one was out of bed before 8:00 am. Levi had been up once in the night, but went back down pretty easily. We caught the hotel breakfast just before they closed up. The only scheduled item for today was to meet some friends from Fort Collins at the Denver Zoo by 11:00. Their little girl is just five days older than Paul. We had been in the same birthing class as them back in 2003. We thought 11:00 am would be easy and that we could enjoy some other [View Full Entry]

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We all got a good night sleep last night! Todd was feeling a little better in the morning and neither of the boys were up in the middle of the night. It may have helped that we had our own room in the suite and just didn't hear them. This was our first full day in Denver and we intentionally left it unplanned, but knew there were lots of options. We decided on the Denver Museum of Nature and Science since they had dinosaurs and an exhibit on Egyptian Mummies. Paul has been reading a story book on this trip about [View Full Entry]

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