It all started in 2009 when our 12 year old son decided he wanted to become a paleontologist when he grew up. He learned all about the local fossil digs, did reports in school, and became an expert on dinosaurs and paleontology. Our summers always included a long drive to see grandparents in Star Valley, Wyoming. The states we drove through were indescribably beautiful! Buried beneath the land was a rich history of the Western Interior Seaway containing creatures of a long-gone sea. Our trips soon became visits to “hot” fossil sites along the way. We found Cretaceous bivalves fossils (shells) just north of Page, AZ. In Delta, Utah we found, in the middle of nowhere, a trilobite quarry where we dug for 550 million year old trilobites. Kemmerer, Wyoming gave us the most interesting experience where we dug in the 50 million year old Green River Formation and found all kinds of well preserved fish called Knightia, Diplomystus, Phareodus, Mioplosus, Amphiplaga, and Priscacara. We had boxes of them!

Now, as a family, we have taken these beautiful rocks and figured out how to share them with others by creating our unique flat rock oil candles. Many of our first candles were from our fossil hunting expeditions. Now along with the fossils we’ve added agates, jaspers, geodes and many other beautiful stones. We hope you enjoy them!