Kindergarten

 My baby started kindergarten today!!  He was sooooo excited to start he ended up in afternoon class and I think he started asking me when it was time to go at about 10.  He could hardly wait. 

 We rode bikes down to the school so that he can ride home with Justin, who is also very excited to have Garrett ride home with him.  I hope he has a great day!  I can hardly wait to hear all about it!!

4th Grade

I can hardly believe that Justin is old enough to be in Fourth Grade.  He was not very excited to start school.  He got a great teacher who he seem to like.  He came home the first day and told me that his teacher call him "broken Justin" because of his broken arm.  I think he likes the extra little attention.  (I guess there are some benefits to starting school with a broken arm.)  He also told me that she pays them with moose bucks for turning in their homework and at the end of each month they have to pay rent on their desks and chairs.  What a great way to teach them some responsibility.   

Hopefully it is a great year for him!

Summer Fun

Justin and Garrett have been talking about going crawdad fishing all summer.  We have been putting off going because of the water being so high this year, it is not great when the water is high because of all the sage brush and grass.  We finally took the kid and they had a blast.  Garrett finally go into crawdad fishing but he also loved casting his fishing pole into the water with sponge bob on the end.  We talked Kellie and Wes into going with us and we had a great time. 

Little Buckaroo Rodeo

Garrett has been talking all summer about how he was going to ride a sheep again this year because he really did have fun last year.  When the moment arrived his did not want to get on that sheep for no one.  Mike and I finally talked him into getting on and then I didn't get a picture of it.  Oh well maybe next year.  However I did get these cute pictures of him doing the stick horse barrels. 

OOPS

Justin has been practicing all summer on his Grandpa's horse so that he could ride in the Little Buckaroo Rodeo in Coalville again this year.  He had just started in the arena to take his turn running the barrels instead of heading to the barrel on the right he for some reason started to head to the left barrel, just as he was starting to go around the barrel the horse realized that they were going the wrong way and took off for the other barrel.  Justin was still going left and the horse was going right he did not stay in the saddle! 

This is the result!!!

He doesn't hate it to bad as you can see by the smile on his face...he really does love to just sit and watch TV so this is the ideal situation for him!!! 

July 4th

We went with Jen and the kids to the Oakley 4th of July parade and then after we took a drive up Mirror Lake.  I can not believe how much snow if still up there.  Mirror Lake is still frozen and the snow is at least 6 - 8 feet deep.  The kids did have a great time at the parade even though it was a little cold and rainy. 

Yellowstone

The last and final stop on our road trip was a few days in Yellowstone.  I really wanted to see a bear.  We have been to Yellowstone a few times and have yet to see a bear.  We kind of made it a quest to see if we could find one. 

The boys were so nice to each other I think almost every photo we have of them they are hugging each other. 

Enjoying the view.

Hanging out waiting for Old Faithful. 

We had to take a picture of this elk it was pretty big. 

I thought we were going to die trying to get a picture of this waterfall.  The wind was blowing so hard I could not even open the car door.  I was wondering if we were going to get blown off the cliff. 

A few pictures in Mammoth. 

This was one of my favorite places.  I think this is called the Dragons Mouth it is pretty cool how it is bubbling out of the hill side. 

We just happened to be vacationing at the same time and in the same place with the Ball's we met up with them a couple of times for dinner and we also just happened to meet a couple of times when we were exploring the park. It was so fun to see and spend time with someone that you know while on vacation. The kids loved it also. 

And we finally seen the bear that I had been searching for the whole trip.  I loved it however, I know they are bears and very dangerous but the park ranger were always there ushering people away.  We were having a hard time getting a good picture. 

We had a great trip.  We seen some awesome things made some great memories and enjoyed being together as a family.  We are also grateful that Grandma was able to come with us. 

Yellowstone's Bear World

Yellowstone's Bear World was our next stop on our road trip.  This is one of my personal favorite places.  I love bears so to see them up close and watch them is pretty cool.  Of coarse the kids loved it also.

 These are some of the baby bears that they let people feed.  I am pretty cheap so we did not get to feed them but they are sure cute!  It was fun watching them play with each other.

 Justin does not really measure up to a grizzly bear. 

Last time we were at bear world (before Garrett was even born) this moose was a baby in their petting zoo.  It was fun to see how much it has grown. 

We did get a chance to feed the bear on their big truck.  The kids had a blast with this.  It was fun to see the bears sit like a dog so that you would throw it some bread. 

The kids had a blast at bear world.  We drove through about 6 times.  What a fun place to visit. 

Craters of the Moon

We took a little road trip with Grandma.  Our first stop was Craters of the moon.  It was a really long drive to get there but once there the kids loved it.  Mike, myself and grandma also thought it was pretty cool.   

Garrett thought he was pretty cool that he could pick up the rocks. 

 We hike through a few caves.  A few of them got pretty dark we really did need the head lamps and flashlights. 

What a neat place to visit!