The Day Jack Lost his first tooth

How else would a young man loose his first tooth, but in a fist fight. It was a gentle wrestling match with Lucy and took an unfortunate turn. Of course it happened hiking in the river bottom.

Florida And Disney

More Pictures from last Summer. June 2013

Back At It So Far From Home

We will resume with June of 2013 ( I lost my phone aka my prime photo taking device). The kids and I headed to Florida with the In-Laws. Here are some of the Highlights!

It Sure Has Been A While...

So it has been over a year, and I feel bad for dropping the blog so hard. So I am going to add a few posts of picture and places we have been this past year and five months. Then we will kick this spring off with renewed dedication. Here are some mountain goats (first kids and I have ever seen in wild) from our drive home on saturday (we went to Idaho Falls)!!!

Sheep Mountain 7-28-12 (Sleeping Indian)

An infamous mountain to climb here in Jackson is Sheep Mountain, known to locals as Sleeping Indian. Honestly why not, who would pass up a chance to sit on top on a well known land mark. There are two trails to summit Sheep Mountain, one from the Flat Creek Trail Head (7 miles round trip) from the National Elk Refuge, and the other from Red Hill campground just past Slide Lake (11 miles round trip). We chose the shorter of the two routes. We didn't make it to the summit, we only went on for a few miles until we passed Flat Creek Ranch. It was getting cloudy and looked like rain, and the top of a mountain is not where I would choose to be so we turned back

Sheep Mountain (Sleeping Indian)

Flat Creek

Away we go

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Lulu's 6th Birthday -Yellowstone

This year Lulu chose to go camping in Yellowstone for her birthday. We camped at Slough Creek Campground site 13., it was right on the river, but the sites we a bit close together and there we not a huge amount of trees, but it was a wonderful site and we were hardly there at all. We ventured outside all of the gates, and fully explored the upper loop. We went to Cook City and Silver City where we enjoyed a funnel cake and some deep fried Snickers from a road side stand.  We went to the famous Roosevelt Arch, and even ventured over To Madison, and West Yellowstone. Unfortunately I forgot my phone charger and also had the mishap of falling into Slough creek with my phone in my pocket so there are a limited number of pictures of the week we spent there. This turned out to be major disappointment when we encountered our first Grizzly Bear while hiking Pebble Creek. It was quite an experience, we only saw it for a moment as we startled him and he went bounding off in the opposite direction. We took the bears expert advice and turned heel and headed back the way we had came

Sunrise on the Yellowstone River

Finding a way to cross

inspecting the Caterpillars 

Heavens Bouquet
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Lulu and Goose!!!

Sneaky camp compainion

Cold Creek Crossing

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