Our Trip With Nature At Yellowstone

Yellowstone is a place that can't be explore once but many times and it was our second time there. Isaac was being taken to meet his Papa in Dillion, Idaho, so he could spend a week with his grandparents and cousins. We decided since our other two kids wasn't invited, we needed to do something special and YELLOWSTONE was the answer.

Our home away from home. On our first night a Buffalo came to visit the campground and decided to stay for the night. It was several yards away from us...it was pretty cool!

Nathan have fun on these trucksand a course what ever one does the other has to do too.We found out that even the campground that are first come bases was already taken so we have to wait until 7pm to get the handicap.
Mya wasn't happy when she almost lost her shoe in the Buffalo Poop.(evident of her shoeprint in the pile.)Glad to be in flesh air after being in a car for 7 hours!
The rain didn't stop us for visiting the "Upper Falls"....BEAUTIFUL!Mya and Blake hiking back.The view to this place is AMAZING!!!
Had to convince Nathan that climbing this wall was DANGEROUS! Mya had fun throwing rocks over to the river below.My two redhead were great and fearless!None thing better than your 7 years old taking a photo of his parents.Taking a breather about all our walking!


We saw so many amazing animals!
Best part of our trip that there were ton of walkways like this that made the hikes easier.
The geysers and mud pots were AMAZING but the smell was NOT!!!!Mya is on the look out to find Blake and Nathan, who went fly fishing.We went on a small hike and found them. We told them to come back so we can have breakfast and explore the park more.Nathan had a GREAT time learning the ropes from his dad.Nathan was sharing with his little sister all the adventure he had that morning.
The view from our campground.
Sometime a little girl just needs to hug her dad.Even caterpillars are GREAT!
Finally a photo of us four.
Enjoying my time with the kiddies.

More animals we saw and were able to capture on film but we saw so many more!Hiking on the trails on Mammoth Hot Springs Terrace and this place is HUGE!
We experienced on this trip several weather changes, rain, snow, sleet, winter weather, spring weather and finally summer weather. We had a great time on our adventure in Yellowstone but we were ready to go home and it wasn't the same without Isaac.

Finally it ENDED...

Due to the horrible snow storms we had in December, we had school closures that we needed to make up which meant school was extended until June 17th! Which was a major PAIN but now it's over and now we can enjoy our SUMMER! Well, we will enjoy summer when summer finally arrives here! Mother Nature had different ideas and the high has been in the mid 50's to 60's, YIKES!!! Anyway, one of the things I learned in Hawaii is to make Leis and that's the gifts we made for our teachers and they were a HIT! We had an great experiences with the teachers the boys had and wanted to paid tribute to them!

Thank you Ms. Yonago, for teaching Nate to write!


Thank you to Ms. Current, for encouraging Isaac's creative writing.

Now for SUMMER FUN! Keep in tune of more updates of our Summer Adventures!

From One to the Next....

I never thought how busy our lives would be when you have kids in sports! The practices and the games.... lucky for us the boys were in different division for Basketball because of age. Which meant that one had games only on Fridays and the other on Saturdays. But it will come a time that we'll have games on the same day and maybe at the same time and that when Blake and I will divide and that for only two kids...we haven't put the third kid into any sport yet but she will in the spring. Then CHAOS will rein.

Here some photos of the boys at their Basketball games ( this is when I discover that I needed a new camera and I was very sad ;( )
The problem that we didn't have for basketball we had for soccer and some days it was tough!!! Some days it was very long but the kids had a good time. Blake decided that he'll coach Nathan's team. Nathan truly enjoyed having his dad as his coach most of the time...I guess you're always harder on your child because you know what they are capable of.

Here are the kids playing soccer and it was taken with the new camera. ( Blake got it for me for our anniversary!)

I think parents should get a award for supporting their children in sports or any other activity especially when parents suffer from the elements...snow, cold weather, rain and fierce sun to show their love.

Loving Nature...Especially with Family!

We decided for Memorial Weekend that we would go exploring Spokane and discover the wonders it has to offer and we found two places that would become our favorites. The first place we visited was Bear Lake. Awesome views, fun trails, great playground for the kids, picnic tables throughout, swimming for humans and dogs, fishing and watching the performance of the wildlife. I could never get a clear shots of any of the aviary creatures that were hunting on the lake but it was so amazing!

Off we go on our hike around the lake

My cute kids actually getting along that they are holding hands...SWEET!
My Hubby is having the time of his life!Floating docks are slippy but when you are gun ho that doesn't stop you.

Nature is a Masterpiece!

Love this photos...it truly show my kids' personality!

Enjoying our picnic in Nature.(Isaac is getting better and better in taking picture!)

Our sweet girl...that brings sunshine into our world!

My courage boy...who taught me the meaning of no FEAR!

My dreamer...anything he sets his mind on, he can do!

My crew...loves nature as much as we do!

My hubby who truly loves me that he'll stop to take a photo with me.(again, good job, IKE!)

Walking with each other...Priceless!

Then we visited Liberty Lake and it was also a great location; Awesome views, you can go camping, great playground for the kids, picnic tables, BBQ pits, great trails, dogs are allow on the trails, swimming, fishing, shade on your hike, ton of wildlife...great place...best part only 20 minute away.

The wonder of what was created for us!

My silly crew are ready to start our hike.

This is a great place for dog lovers...we lost count of how many dog we encounter on hike. AWESOME!

Our journey to the falls...we didn't make it but the hike was fun.

Life is good when you have a dog for a friend.

Throughout the whole hike, Nate was trying and catching butterflies.

We are totally happy that we were able to explore those places and can't wait to visit them again! Best of all we had fun!