Last pics of Yellowstone?

The them song for our trip..."You can't rollerskate through a Buffalo Herd" I think the Bison were Lillian's favorite because she could see them the easiest.

Here is where it all starts..at least in pics.

This was our camp site outside the park the night before we got in Yellowstone. As we pulled into the camp sight a Moose cow and calf ran through the camp ground. We were some of the first campers to camp here as the grounds had just opened the night before. It was gorgeous.

Yellowstone or Bust! The mountains are the Tetons.

After we set up camp we drove over to a geyser basin. It was the day my team was walking in the Relay for Life Relay in Columbus so we wore our shirts and "relayed" in Yellowstone.

Our first neighbors were from Germany. They had been in the US for a couple of months. They had girls about the same ages as Madeline and Lillian and loved to play. The girls could speak English amazingly well. The girls taught them how to make smores.

The full moon on the lake at our camp ground.

Exhausted

On our was to Morning Glory.

Beautiful

Our favorite neighbors of the trip. We hope to be in contact with them soon.

The girls palying in the campground.

There's squishy face. Coyde always calls Lillian's smile squishy face.

Just after we stopped at a picnic ground for lunch a Moose ran through the grounds. Five minutes later.....

Madeline lost a tooth.

AWWW Ice cream. In from of the Lake store where Grandpa and Grandma worked. We are sitting on George's bench, a friend of Grandpa and Grandmas.

Ice cream was a regular necessity. We had more ice creams more times than showers. Although that didn't take much. Later in the trip we called ourselves stinky hippies.

There had been a storm that knocked out the electricity so no showers. Don't worry the next day we were clean hippies.

Yellowstone Continued

More pics. I'm posting pics from the end to the beginning. So hopefully another night of this and I'll have all of them posted.

Glad to be back posting.

Lillian at 6:00 AM same morning. She had gotten car sick on the way to Lamar Valley due to having an empty tummy. We set up the chair and snuggled her in and there she slept. And yes....she's sucking her thumb. Again.

Madeline is PJs hugging dad after she saw the wolf. The group grew quickly when I...yes...I spotted the wolf and then she chased an elk. The standoff lasted an hour and was like watching a scene on a TV program. It was amazing.

Lillian feeling much perkier and now dressed and eating breakfast.

At Mammoth Springs

Lillian is holding her hat over her face and refused to take it away from her face because of the smell. But I promise there was a smile under there.

All tuckered out. Grandpa says he liked riding in the back. We soon realized why.

Burble Burble POP!! Our favorite feature of the whole trip.

Speckles of mud the mud pot threw. Lillian is wiping it off her ear.

Lillian and Grandma doing dishes. Lillian loved this job. She also liked to scrub tables. I'd hire out but I keep her busy myself.

First the dishes then the feet. Lillian laughed and laughed at her foot bath.

Foot fashion after the foot bath. You won't loose her in the woods or a crowd.

We actually saw this guy a couple mornings previous to this on our way to Lamar Valley the first time. Yes....he's getting close. We are in the Sub and parked on the side of the road. He actually looked at us and headed straight towards us so we moved. He crossed the road where we had been parked. We teased Lillian he smelled her Froot Loops and wanted some. Well...she thinks we were kidding. It was a little close for comfort.

About three miles down the road we saw this mama and her two cubs. Her cubs are hiding at the moment. They also got too close and we weren't in the Sub but soon found it for refuge.

WOW!! I've got a lot of explaining to do!!

Sisterly love in Yellowstone

It's Hot! And it stinks!

Address in Yellowstone 2010

Madeline getting instruction from the pro. Rick spent alot of time with Madeline while watching the wolves the second time we went to see them. He remembered her from the first day we went.

Rick and Grandpa Mark helping Lillian see the wolves. The wolves were at least 2 miles away.

Where are they?

Breakfast at Yellowstone Picnic area after seeing the wolves the second time in Lamar Valley.

WARNING! Hold onto Bitty Baby!

Ok. Pic a little far away but it's a mama grizzly with her three cubs. We weren't getting closer.

Madeline playing on the beach at Yellowstone Lake. It's COLD!

Home Sweet Home before it's all taken down.

Sorry. This is a bit scary I know. Lillian insisted. The girls thought it was hilarious to see me in piggy tales.

Oh yes, Bitty Baby was along for the vaca. She is sitting on the prize loon bought at a sidewalk sale at one of the stores in the park. We thought it was fitting that our little loon have a loon of her own.

Ok, I know, I know. I stink at keeping this up to date. In my defense I have had a computer on it's last leg all summer. But now......watch out. Thanks to Mike I'm back in action.

This summer has been such a wild ride. I'm going to take you back to the beginning and slowly post a new entry every so often. It won't take long because I'm discovering most were lost in the computer debacle.

So from May till late June nothin:(.

I'll give you a run down.

May 28th-May 31. Memorial Day - Camping at the lake. Quieter than usual but a very good weekend.

June 1-3 Madeline goes to Church camp with Grandma Trudy.

June 7-10th Madeline has Dance camp

June 7-10 Lillian has Bible School

June 19,20, 21 College World Series tailgate party

June 24-July 3rd Yellowstone!

July 4th Crawford

I'll stop there. I'll give you some pics to look at. We went to Yellowstone with Eric's parents. AND we owe Mandy and Roger a big thanks for letting us use their pop up which was bigger than our other option.