Shawn at Rose Pond near Blackfoot, Idaho.

 Shawn and Elise at Rose Pond near Blackfoot, Idaho.

 Shawn and Grandpa at Rose Pond.

 Learning how to use a hose.

 Elise and Grandma at Rose Pond.

 The construction crew was nice enough to lay out a bunch of rock for me to look at and wash it off with the water truck. This rock is full of bones, teeth, and eggshell.

 Oryctodromeus tail vertebra in cross section. Specimen recovered from lands administered by Caribou-Targhee National Forest.

 Small limb end in a cobble. Specimen recovered from lands administered by Caribou-Targhee National Forest.

 The hillside that used to have bones in it.

 A curious deer.

 Chicken near Alpine.

Carnivore vertebra from the same site. Specimen recovered from lands administered by Caribou-Targhee National Forest.

 Blooming cactus near Dillon.

 Shawn learns to do the dishes.

 Shawn enjoys climbing on Mom.

 The 50 foot toddler that ate Bozeman.

 Elise opening a b-day present.

 Saving this for when he dates.

 He kept asking for more, so I obliged.

 Elise at her b-day party.

 Elise's b-day party.

 Elise's b-day cake.

 Elise and Kaitlin.

 Wildflowers at 9000' on top of the Gravelly Range.

 Wildflowers at 9000' on top of the Gravelly Range.

 Old mine in the middle of nowhere, southeast Montana.

 Outcrops of the Vaughn member of the Blackleaf Formation.

 Sunset in Dillon.

 On top of a hill at 8000' near Lima Peaks.

 Outcrops of the Vaughn member of the Blackleaf Formation.

Lima Peaks.

Chantel likes to put skirts on our son.

Shawn chasing a duck I have named 'Moocher'.

 

 Grandpa likes to hang the grandkids on the Fire Station flagpole.

 These guys are all over our front yard.

 Jim Jenks (an ammonite enthusiast) and I in Paris Canyon, looking at Triassic outcrops.

 My student assistants looking for trilobites at Spence Gulch, near Bear Lake, Idaho.

 Camp at Danish Flats, near Spence Gulch.

 Lots of wading while looking for dinos in Squaw Creek Canyon, Bonneville Co., ID.

 Squaw Creek Canyon, Bonneville Co., ID.

 Unfortunately, the garbage sacks were not air tight.

 Squaw Creek Canyon, Bonneville Co., ID.

 Wildflowers in Squaw Creek Canyon, Bonneville Co., ID.

 Wayan Formation outcrops in Squaw Creek Canyon, Bonneville Co., ID.

 Good runoff in Squaw Creek,

 My advisors always question my sanity.

 Moon before the midnight storm at Danish Flats.

 Tincup Creek, Bonneville Co., ID.

 Locality were we found a new Oryctodromeus partial skeleton.

 There are bones in there, I promise.

 Triumphant student helpers at the new Orycto locality.

Nice Zacanthoides trilobite molt I found at Spence Gulch.