A little cheer in a long yucky week......

Blahh........I hate HATE being sick.

Here are some cute pictures to cheer me up. Poor me, Woe is me, ect......wah.

At least my kids are.....ADORABLE!

My husband is a SAINT.Jacob got marathon movie night with his cousins......BEE MOVIE, KING KONG, ZATHURA, ICE AGE.

Izzi and Jo livin' the HIGH baby life at the Pittsburgh Zoo with a little help from Mason.

Jake lookin' like a freakin' old man......Sunrise, Sunset....

First Day of SPRING......

I don't know why but this year I am REALLY looking forward to spring! Today is the first day of spring and my daylillies are sprouting and so are my bulbs. Because Easter is earlier this year we won't have our garden flowers but I will make Allen buy me some. I will have a better post after Sunday when we have some fun pictures to put up. Right now, we are loving having Amy and Frank and the cousins with us for a week. Jacob has rough housed, rolled on the floor and played video games until he has a headache and couldn't go the museum with them today...maybe this afternoon. Yea for EASTER DINNER on Sunday....HAM yummy yummy, I am going to try a new cranberry glaze this year......more later, maybe I will post my picture of 2006's ham. Yes, I will.

And while I'm at it I will post a couple of old easter pictures......Happy Easter from the Shaws!

Easter 2006 Jake and Julia

Easter 2007 Jake and Julie...Cool.

Tyrannosaurus Double Vision

Even though phase II of the dinosaur exhibit will not open until June 2008, you can see a sneak peak of the Tyrannosaurus (or should I say both Tyrannosaurs) already set up. The museum went with a dynamic pose with two Tyrannosaurs fighting over an Edmontosaurus (duckbill) carcass laying between them. The Tyrannosaurs are up in their poses but we are still working on the Edmontosaurus skeleton in the lab. I am currently cleaning and repairing the Triceratops skull in the lab as well. The exhibit will have a cast Triceratops body that the fossil skull (the one I am working on) will be joined with. Both the Triceratops and the Tyrannosaurus were collected before 1910 and will be exhibited better then they ever were before. I will put up some before and after shots of the dinosaurs on one of the future blogs. Check out the Tyrannosaurs, Edmontosaurus and Triceratops pics below.

Tyrannosaurs fighting over carcass (not yet added).

Triceratops skull with a mouth full.

Edmontosaurus (duckbill) skull-both the skull and body will be laying as a carcass between the two Tyrannosaurs