Most of July

I've found that the more we do and the more time that I let pass between blog posts, the more overbearing the task of writing a new post gets. As a result, every time I update after letting a month pass, I resolve to update more frequently... And here we are again three weeks later. Oh well =)

Some highlights this month: 

Hiked the Terrace Mountain Loop

Visited West Yellowstone, Mt

Went Moose Hunting (for photos only) in the Lamar Valley
Visited Cooke City, Mt

Hiked the Fairy Falls trail 

Watched the sunrise from the Boiling River (twice!)

Hiked the Beaver Ponds Trail (and got a killer sunburn)

Finished up Softball for the summer

Wildflower Hunting with Monica 

Summerfest in Livingston

Some things we saw:

The Hoodoos

Old Faithful Erupt (again)

Semi-Aerial View of the Grand Prismatic

Fairy Falls

Two wolves with a carcass

A Black Bear

A Grizzly Bear (who crossed the road right in front of us!)

A female Moose

Two Bald Eagles

Some Elk and Antelope

Bison and their babies

Big Horn Sheep and Babies

Many Many Wild Flowers

The Dark Knight Rises and Moonrise Kingdom ;)

Elk hanging out in someone's yard

Monica and Sean on Terrace Mtn Loop

Black Bear being sneaky in some sage brush

Antelope in Lamar Valley

Bison with Calf

Big Horn Sheep with baby

Best view of the Grand Prismatic

 

Fairy Falls

Fairy Falls Photo-Op

Bald Eagle

Old Faithful erupting

Painting with Monica by the River

I hope you have an awesome week (or month if that's how long it takes me to update) and are inspired by the simple things.

Peace and Love

 

Double Rainbow

Not too many Yellowstone related happenings to report this week.

Last weekend we went out of town to a city called Bozeman. Our wedding is on June 29th next year so we thought we should do something special to mark one year and before the stress of planning begins. This weekend getaway entailed a lovely evening of camping in the local Wal-mart parking lot, seeing a movie, walking the galleries of the downtown area, eating plenty of good food and we topped it all off with a night in a hotel (with a pool!!). We're easy to please/pamper. It was an awesome weekend.

The rest of the week was pretty nice too. I had a luncheon at work for the 4th of July. Being a good cook must be a secret qualification for working here, because everything was delicious. I brought my new signature dish, something I learned in high school from my best friends, called "Really, Really Good Stuff". It's a crowd pleaser every time =)

That  night we went to Livingston (about 45 minutes away) to the farmer's market and listened to a band play there. Fireworks are banned here because of the current fires, but it was a great evening regardless and the fireworks weren't even missed. The rest of the week was ok, a lot of working and not much playing.

Today is our Friday and we have a couple of big hikes planned this weekend, so I'm sure there will be a post about those sometime next week.


Oh! And we just saw a double rainbow over the mountains!

Hope your weekend/week is filled with pleasant surprises!
Peace and Love.