Montana sunrise

Thanksgiving - hunt for Xmas tree

Heather and Allie sledding down the road
Eric and Tara about to get pulled uphill by Matt
Two little stinkers
Three big stinkers
Can you say bratwurst?

More Flowers from Sherrys Garden

zinnias are doing really well this year
A rose ...
the same rose a few days later.

Grandbaby visit

The Christenson family came to visit us over Labor Day weekend - here are a few pictures. Tara on the trampoline.
Morgan having fun with Teal
Sherry, Morgan and funny Tara (wonder where she gets it from.... Jenny?) at the Carousel.
More from the Carousel

One of the Roses in Sherrys garden.

Grand Canyon (part 1)

One of the boats in our group going into Lava Falls...
The same boat flipping and people falling into the water.
A spring called Pumpking spring (due to the orange color)
Notice both the wonderful tanned feet and the many painted toenails (most of the group was men).
The "Pillar of Fun" river runners.

More from the Grand Canyon (part 2)

Monkey Flowers
A 100 foot tall water fall, Deer Creek Falls
Another beautiful side canyon, Havasu.
Good morning Sherry! Our luxury accomodations on most nights was on the boats (cooler than on land) - Average daytime temperature was 120 degrees.

More from the Grand Canyon (part 3)

Eric and Sherry enjoying the waters in Elves Chasm

Sherry enjoying a shower during a hike up Stone Creek
Eric enjoying a shower too.

More from Grand Canyon (part 4)

View from the river to the top of the south rim (The Watchtower is a small speck in this picture).
Sherry and Eric in Granite Rapid
Sherry and Eric heading into biggest wave on the river (Hermit Rapid) - wave is about 20 feet tall.
Exiting Hermit Rapid
Waterfall in side Canyon

More from the Grand Canyon (part 5)

View from top of south rim of the grand canyon at sunset (Mathers Point)
Start of float through the grand canyon. Passing under the Navajo Bridge
A lily by one of our campsites
Waterfall in Saddle Canyon
A beautiful tributary to the Colorado River, called the Little Colorado River.

Colorado mountain hike

Eric, Erika and Teal hiked up to Colorado Mountain to look at wildflowers (particularly these blue camas lilies) - It was a 7 mile hike for the two-legged folks, but the four legged one ran about 20 miles.
Heres Teal contemplating her next activity

Trip to Crow Creek Falls

Sherry, Eric and Erika took a hike to crow creek falls (about 50 feet high) in june. Its a 7 mile round-trip hike, but we took the long way (10 miles). But because we took the long way we got to eat strawberries and find these morrel mushrooms. Sherry sauteed them in butter and her and Erika enjoyed them - Eric had one
This is crow creeek falls.
This is a lady slipper orchid that we saw on the trail

our trip to craters of the moon national monument

Our trip to Craters of the Moon Nat. Monument

Yellowstone in April