FIRST DAY

Britten survived his first day of Kindergarten today. Actually, we all survived his first day. Here are a couple pics of Hailey, our rock star, Britten with his best buddy Hailey and with his best Pal Tyler.
ROCK ON!

COW-KIDS

Someone asked us to post a couple more pics from our trip. Here's a couple of the kids driving our horses on our wild west cook-out trip in Jackson. Each child had a chance to control the two incredibly beautiful and large horses pulling our wagon. Their names were "smith" and "wesson". Our cowboy in charge of the wagon was Clint.

Britten starts Kindergarten on Tuesday. It's a pretty exciting milestone. Both kids will have a bit of adjusting to do. Hope all is well with everyone.

BOZEMAN

Chris hasn't gotten around to updating our GPS link but we did make it to Bozeman, Montana yesterday. We drove through Yellowstone and watched Old Faithful. The kids and the parents were equally impressed. Chris and I saw a Bear in Big Sky - we're thinking it was a Brown Bear or a Grizzly but we're not sure. We also saw a herd of Mule Deer just before leaving Yellowstone. Hailey was sleeping (thankfully) but Britten was pretty excited.

Weather has been terrific. Had our first thunderstorm today. Kids liked the lightening but not the thunder. We also toured the Musuem of the Rockies at Montana State University. WOW! We highly recommend it to all between the ages of 3 and 300.

Here are a couple pics we chose to share. The kids in a meadow near Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Forest, the kids in Jenny Lake at Grand Teton National Forest, Chris and the kids at an ice cream shop in Jackson and Heidi & Hailey at the Continental Divide (pretty obvious). We crossed it 3 times but only got out for a picture once.
We'll be leaving Montana sometime on Saturday and work our way back to the beautiful Bay Area. We miss Big Jack! Congratulations to the NAA family and their wonderful news. Maybe they'll update their blog so everyone can be happy for them.

NEWS FROM THE ROAD

Well we're having a blast and learning so much about this part of the country. Kids have a whole bunch of facts to share about salt, trains, beavers, antlers and buffalo. We've been tracking our trip with Chris' slick GPS program. So now all of you can share in our journey. Kids haven't been sleeping very well so they're kind of cranky - but I guess that's to be expected. Chris and I will be celebrating our 8th anniversary tomorrow - WOW! Happy B-day to Uncle Justin too.
It's beautiful country out here. Star Valley, Wy is my favorite so far. Leave for Montana via Yellowstone on Wednesday. Talk at y'aw later.

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Hallford Road Trip 2008