Yellowstone

Fair Warning - Picture Overload

We had a great time at Yellowstone with my family

First stop - Bear and Wolf Discovery Center

The kids got to do the Keeper Kids program where they go hide food in the bear enclosure and then watch the bears come find it...after the kids get out.

Next day was Yellowstone Park!  I had never been to all the geysers and tourist attractions, it was fun and perfect weather!

The kids didn't love the strong sulfur smell!

pretty amazing!

Asher cannot take a picture without some kind of pose or face!  And Emry won't be convinced to take a picture if her mind is against it.

My mom gave Asher a book that he picked out fell in love with.  He took it with him to go see all the sights.  We all pretty much had it memorized about Epsilon and the Noble wolf pack

Old Faithful

 Pretending to be geysers

Getting tuckered out!

Next day we did some swimming, ate more good food, and explored West Yellowstone

waving goodbye

Had to get a picture of this rare event!

You can't see it well, but we were lucky enough to see a Bald Eagle fishing on the way home

And an elk just walking up to a school right outside the north entrance gates.

Worn out from such a fun time!

Mother's Day

Love my crazy kiddos!

Asher's Birthday

Asher turned 5!

I feel like 5 is the age when they start to really seem older.

He's not a little kid anymore!

Just a "few" photos we took

A common Asher face

Another common face we see alot of - mischevious

opening presents

He decided he must have a ninja turtle birthday party.  

I don't know how he got so into ninja turtles, but they are one of his current obsessions.  Leo is the favorite, to be exact.  I really don't care for them all that much and won't be too sad when this phase, hopefully, passes!

Pretty happy with how his cake turned out, despite that one eye!

He was happy with it!

Birthday party craziness.  A whole band of boys played pin the mask on Leo, and became ninja's to get the bad guy balloons with their staffs and throw their ninja stars.  But lets be realistic, mostly there was alot of running and sword hitting and gun noises.

I think Emry enjoyed the cake too.

Asher got a sleeping bag for his birthday and so he and Kason camped in a fort that night

And a blackmail picture?!

A little bit about Asher:

-His big, bright blue eyes get me every time.

-He has a pretty happy go lucky, care-free attitude and can usually be seen with a goofy grin on his face.

-He is sweet and is my child who will randomly come up to me and give me a hug or kiss for no reason at all.

-Sometimes that care-free attitude manifests itself with...carelessness...obliviousness...forgetfulness to remember/pay attention to the rules

-He's still stocky - 50% for height, and 75% for weight.
-He goes full force, he floors the snowmobile, he rides his bike way too fast the first time.
-I never really know what hilarious thing is going to come out of his mouth. I'm nervous sometimes, but secretly excited to hear what funny thing he is going to come up with.
I asked him some questions:
-Favorite animal: Bald Eagle
-Favorite food: Alfredo
-Favorite color: Blue
-Favorite sport: Basketball
-What do you want to be when you grow up: a basketball player
-Favorite superhero: Hulk
-Who do you want to be like? Helaman
-Then he said, don't you want to know my favorite poisonous animal?  of course! Gila Monster

We love our Asher!