Day 3, The People

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Momzoo

Like I said before, on day three we drove the upper loop and it is mostly driving. I got a little bored, and since the camera was right next to me…..I decided to play paparazzi!

Dadzoo doesn’t like it when I play paparazzi.

Smile Babe!

awww, come on give me some sugar!

Show me that handsome smile!

Come on, you know you want to….

ok, ok, I will be putting the camera down

anyway, I found someone who was much more willing to have his picture taken!

Hey sweet boy!

This is the best picture I could get of my dad,
he doesn’t like to have his picture taken.

Happy Children

Punk #4 and her uncle Chaddy
he was graciously giving her tired 4 year old legs a rest

Day 3

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Momzoo

On day three we drove the upper loop. There isn’t as many geological features, most beautiful scenery and wildlife. We did have another siting of a bear. This big guy crossed the street about three cars in front of us. You can see the Park Rangers directing traffic. It was fun for the kids to see the bear so up close. The other in our party saw two big grizzly bears, however we were separated in the “bear jam” and didn’t get to see the creatures.

Vacation, day 2

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Momzoo

On the second day of our vacation we went in to Yellowstone Park.

Yellowstone is one of my favorite places to visit. I love the wild life, the beauty and I think the geological features are fascinating. I am amazed at the power of this earth.

We started on the lower loop, it has most of the geological features (hot pot, mud pot, geysers, steam vents…etc).

The beauty and power of it all is stunning

This is “Old Faithful” the most well known geyser in the world.

They call this feature “Dragons Cave” You can hear the water slapping agents the sides of the cave deep down in the earth, there is also a low hissing sound as the steam comes out. It seriously sounds and looks like there is a Dragon inside.

The highlight of the day (besides Old Faithful) was this little beauty we found on a little side road.

He was back in the trees so we stopped for a little bit to watch him. I was amazed how quickly the park rangers got there. They needed to watch to make sure the people weren’t doing anything stupid (like walking towards the bear…which they were!). The bear turned and started coming towards the road and the rangers made us all get in our cars and move along. It was really neat to see and the kids loved it.

We stopped in West Yellowstone on our way back to the cabin for dinner and got home at about 11:00. Completely exhausted!

Our Vacation

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Momzoo

We took the kids on vacation about two weeks ago. We had a wonderful time and I think the reason I have avoided blogging about it is that I just don’t know where to start or what to write about. We did so much, and saw so much and had such a wonderful time together it is a little overwhelming for me to try to write it all down in one post.

I will start with the first day. We stared out Wednesday morning. Yellowstone is about a 6 hour drive from our house, which isn’t bad, especially if you time it around naps and such. On our way up we stopped in Layton Utah at Hill Air force Base to see their aerospace museum. It is really big and had a lot of stuff to look at. The girls got a little bored, they just aren’t old enough to really appreciate everything. I would have liked to stay longer and taken my time looking and reading about all those planes, but the kids were just too restless.

From there we headed on to Island Park Idaho. We rented a cabin with my parents, my two married sisters and their families and my one lone little brother. We had 19 people there, it was a nice big cabin with more than enough room, beds and bathrooms for everybody. The only person we were missing was my 19 year old brother who is in Georgia, serving an LDS mission. We really missed him, he livens things up.

In Idaho we drove through beautiful potato country. There were fields upon fields of flowering potato plants. It is a beautiful area of the country. In Ashton Idaho we took a scenic byway. (I need to say here that I fell in love with Ashton, the farms of potatoes and wheat were so beautiful!) We drove along the Mesa Fall Highway. It wound us through a canyon and out into Island Park. There were so many wild flowers long this highway. I guess they had a wet spring because everything was blooming!

I was spectacular! I love all the beauty that is around us. I love being in the wild wide open.

4th of July

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Momzoo

Have I mentioned that I love the

4th of July

I seriously do

I am a patriot

I love my country

and my silly husband who likes to take pictures of himself with the camera….

but that isn’t what this post is about

it is about the

4th of July.

Every year we go to my hometown’s parade

I say hometown,

but really I should say

“home suburb”

I grew up in the ‘burbs

about 15 minutes north of Salt Lake City

I really enjoy the parade
the local police, sirens blaring
lights flashing
going down the middle of main street

there I am holding baby boy punk
(this is probably the last time you will see my picture on my blog, so savor the moment)
he got a kick out of the police and emergency vehicles.