Yellowstone 2009

The Ray and Laura Bowler family drove to Yellowstone for a long weekend at the end of July 2009. We met up with them and went camping. We had an amazingly great time. The kids went repelling and rafting. Ethan still owes me some pictures so I can include them in our albums. The weather was perfect and the company great. What more do you want out of life?

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Il Silenzio- silence

Not sure who this young lady is but this is an absolutely beautiful musical peformance. Can you just imagine sitting in a music hall with absolutely no noise and hearing this trumpet?

First Babysitting Job

Elisabeth had her first "real" babysitting job last night because all the teenagers were at Prom. She was tickled pink that she could babysit. She earned a whopping $20 for a mere 3 hours of work. She had to work hard though because the 2 year old was very tired and wouldn't go to sleep. Mannie stayed with her just as a safety net. Mannie watched Marley and Me with the 8 year old girl. Marley and Me is a cute love story between the owner and their dog. However, the ending is heart wrenchingly sad.

Elisabeth is saving her money so she can buy herself a new nintendo handheld unit that should work like an mp3 player? Who knows. She will be saving her money for a while since it should cost about $150. That would be her first "large" purchase on her own. Her target date is by her 12 th birthday- October 28th.

A Wyoming Spring

Monique had her friend Andy from AJ (who is stationed at an AFB in Rapid City, SD) come over for the weekend. He came to go skiing with the family. The day he left a storm system let loose on his base and they received several feet of snow over the weekend. He left just in time so that he could be here when it started snowing.

It snowed all of Saturday. The kids went to the mall and sled and snowboarded on this fabulous hill right by the mall for FREE. The official ski slope closing is on April 5th. So, the kids really wanted to go skiing one more time. Early this morning we checked road conditions and the road up the mountain was closed. BUMMER! So Tony and Mannie went to check it out. It appeared that once a plow would go through the road would be opened. They went back home and told the sleeping army to stir up and get ready.

Once the kids were finally in line for the trek up the mountain it took only 30 or so minutes until the plow showed up. The plow was a welcomed sight by all those waiting in line to get up the mountain to enjoy the last day of skiing 15 minutes from home. Winter is in now way over since there is another storm forecasted to come through next week.. oh joy! The skiing conditions were absolutely amazing. POWDER, POWDER and more POWDER. In some spots the powder went up to Mannie's knees. Monique said that a snowboarder fell and completely disappeared in the powder!

Locals were heard saying that this was the best snow they have seen on this mountain in years and that it rivaled Steamboat Springs and other fancy Colorado resorts but with less traffic. We are excited that Spring may soon arrive here so we can launch our raft and enjoy the water.

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Fall Break 2008

Well, I owe you large apology for posting these so late but it has taken me a while to find all the pictures. The camera wouldn't charge on the trip and eventually we realized that the camera was dead. Somehow we lost the pictures even though there is an SD card. Not sure how.

So, here are some of the pictures we gleaned off of the various telephones. Thank goodness for alternative technology. Enjoy.

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