Rafting the Galitin River

During our visit to Yellowstone we went a rafting trip down the Galitin River. We had a lot of fun and got to see a moose, 2 bald eagles and a snake that wanted to join us.

Kick off to a new season

Last night we braved the heat and attended the 1st pre season game, Cardinals verse Saints. The Cardinals lost but hey it doesn't count. It was so hot outside, thank goodness we are indoors.
Iam excited that football season has started.

What I have been up to

I have found a new love!!!! My very talented husband took a piece of wood trim and cut me out a frame. I took some really cute scrapbook paper and deco podged it. I added a few embelishments and look what the result is. Iam totally in love with these picture frames, I have had so much fun making them.

It's Amazing

Last summer we had a BBQ and I served a fresh pineapple. My Dad told me that is I took the top of the pineapple, planted it is the dirt and watered it, it would grow into a tree. I was fascinated and wanted to give it a try. So I cut the top off, dug a hole and stuck the top in and here we are a year later. My pineapple tree is now 2 feet tall and doing very well.

It totally amazed me that a plant could grow from plopping the top in the ground. Now we'll just have to wait and see if any pineapples grow on my tree.

Grand Tetons

After 3 days in Yellowstone we decides to drive home thru the Grand Tetons. I have never seen them and I was so excited to see them. They are as amazing as I have always been told. They still had snow on the tops. We stopped at the lodge and took some pictures. We had a great time on our road trip.

Yellowstone 2008

Lower Falls
Madison River
Yellowstone Bison
New Growth

Old Faithful being faithful

Baby bear along the road

Jr and I standing in front of a burned area

Stinky Mud Pots

It has been 20 years since the summer of fire in Yellowstone Park. I haven't been to the park since high school so I was excited to see what it looked like now. Jr and I along with his parents and our nieces and nephew took a 5 day RV trip thru the park. It was so amazing and beautiful. The new trees are about 20 feet tall and other then the skeletons of trees it looks like a normal forest. We spent 3 days touring the park. We visited old Faithful, saw lots of wildlife, hiked around the mud pots and rafted down the Galliton river. I took 150 pictures on my didgital camera and I wish I could put them all on here for you to see, but that would be crazy.

4th of July

For as long as I can remember the 4th of July has been my favorite holiday. I have the greatest memories of the 4th while growing up. Growing up in a small town where the 4th celebration is taken seriously we always had the best time. The whole town got involved, there was a street fair, parade, fish scramble, BBQ, and fireworks. Living in Arizona celebrating the 4th is hard because it is to hot to have a parade and to dry for fireworks, so the last few years we have headed north and celebrated the 4th in Utah with my hubby's family. Today we took our niece and nephew mini golfing, then we went to the parade, had a BBQ and topped the night off with fireworks. It was a great 4th. I keep telling myself that one day we will return to Buhl to celebrate the 4th the small town way.