Elyse's Music Recital

Today Elyse had her music recital.  The recital took place at her teacher's backyard. Thankfully the rain held off and she was able to perform. She looked stunning and sang beautifully.  She sang, "Part of that World" from Disney's "Little Mermaid".

Madeline Turns 7 Years Old

Today our sweet girl turned seven.  Right now Madeline still is the tallest in her class with bright blue eyes, she loves playing outside, swimming, doing color by numbers, and building Legos. She is so smart, inquisitive, and full of nonstop joy.  

Happy 7th Birthday, Madeline!  We love you so much.

Madeline wanted a rainbow theme birthday party.  Unfortunately due to covid, no kids had any parties this year, so it was a family party.  She spent her day doing everything she loves to do.  She did lots of coloring, ate food she wanted (chicken salad for lunch and Chinese for dinner), we went to a favorite family park, swam in the pool, opened presents, ate cake, and began building one of her many Lego sets.  She said it was a fabulous birthday, even her favorite birthday so far.  Hope seven continues to be just as awesome for her as today was.  

Happy Father's Day

Today we celebrated dad. We spent our day going to church, eating meals together of dad's choice, hanging out, and watching a family movie. Kids also gave dad personal cards with drawings and highlights from our recent trip dad took us all on. Hope he felt as loved as he is. We are so grateful for him and all he does for us all. 

Happy Father's Day! We love you lots.

Glacier National Park

Our last major stop on our trip involved spending a few days at Glacier National Park.  Unfortunately, since it was still early summer half of the park was still closed.  We did get to see a few great hiking trails and waterfalls.  Glacier National Park was by far the most beautiful park we saw.  We even came across seven wild mountain goats on a hike. 

West Yellowstone

Today we headed out of the park and drove to West Yellowstone.  We spent our day shopping the cute shops, buying yummy ice cream treats, and going to Grizzly and Wolf Discovery.  Grizzly and Wolf Discovery was a fan favorite for the kids.  It's a place where they put all wild animals that can not live peacefully in Yellowstone.  Kallen's favorite animal is a wolf and since we did not see any in the park, seeing them this close made him so excited. 

Yellowstone National Park

We spent the next few days at Yellowstone.  Dad got us two hotels inside the park which was perfect.  We hiked the falls and saw all the geysers, including Old Faithful which was by far our kiddos' favorite.   We also had many encounters with wildlife.  We saw moose, in fact so close that the kids were chased back to the van by one.  We also saw elk, deer, pronghorns, lots of bison again, and a mama black bear with her two cubs climbing a tree.