Sunday, August 24, 2008

Monsoon Rolling In

I have a fascination of monsoons, one minute the sky is completely clear and then the next minute black clouds start rolling in, the the sky opens up and drowns you, then the clouds go away just as fast as the arrived, it's awesome. The other night I was driving down the road and I saw this monsoon coming in and when it covered the sun it was so beautiful. I pulled over and took a moment to enjoy the beauty.

Monday, August 11, 2008

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.

Friday, August 8, 2008

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.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

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.