A hiking day

 After visiting Bozeman, we stayed in Big Sky for most of the week and spent a couple of those days hiking to different waterfalls.

Second Day in Yellowstone

 Lower Falls of Yellowstone River

 The river has already fallen in the picture behind us.  Falls are directly to the right, not pictured.

 Mammoth Hot Springs

Several key ingredients combine to make the Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces: heat, water, limestone, and a rock fracture system through which hot water can reach the earth's surface.

End of the trip

 We concluded the trip with more hiking, white water rafting with just the adults, and an amazing double rainbow over our cabin.

A quick stop at Mt. Rushmore on our way home. 

Coming Soon....

Our Montana trip....

Wetsuit season returns

Summer flew by in a blur and suddenly the fall is here and the water is cold.  Summer seems too short!

 Here's an example of how life changes by the minute around here.  Friends-- enemies-- friends again.

School Days

 Loaded backpacks on the first day of school.

 Daniel was very excited to start Kindergarten.  With a turtle backpack, who wouldn't be?!

 Nathan has a great teacher this year and loves second grade.  A relief to all of us!

 Peter is finally starting preschool too.  He's been waiting for this day for about 3 years! 

A new routine in the morning allows for these 2 brothers to learn how to play together. They seem to get along best when they are watching TV. 

Summer fun

These suits are very popular and somewhat necessary this year!

Ready for action. 

This was in early June and even with wetsuits, the boys mainly ran in and right back out of the water.

Happy Father's Day to 3 quality Dads!

This is how we watch the World Cup.  Well, sometimes Aaron's seat isn't on the toilet.

A very popular game: 4 on 1.

My special Bub.  

The other day he asked, "Why do you call me Bub?"  

He supposed I could call him Bub as long as I still call him Peter too.

Joel successfully played 3 games at once.  The only complication seemed to be that Daniel would make several moves while Joel was distracted with the other 2 games.

This boy loves baths.  Good thing since he is still a poop monster!

Baseball Season 2014

Nathan was the only official baseball player this year.  He had many loyal fans at each game.

Practicing stealing bases.

The loyal fans were not always watching Nathan play, however.

Early in the season, Nathan would purposefully miss the batting machine pitches because he thought he could hit it farther off the tee.  By the end of the season he decided to start really swinging at the machine pitch.

Boys love trophies!

To celebrate Nathan's last day of school we had an early dinner, then headed to Sherman's Ice Cream for their "Pig's Dinner." It was huge, but we did all right with it.  I wonder how long it will be before we need two of them....

Speed....I am speed

Here's Daniel's last day of school.  This is his friend, Eli.

Aaron is not too proud to beg.

You know the thing that attaches a snorkel to the strap of a mask...?

Aaron got confused on which picture was the "crazy face" one.

Nathan's first grade award ceremony.

Practicing our tornado drill: in the basement, in a harp box...with food of course.   It could be a long tornado.