skipping rocks

More of our trip to Glacier.

Do you all ever get sick of seeing pictures of our trips to Glacier?? I hope not because we love to share them. The Going to the Sun road wasn't open yet adn that really gets to the heart of the park. We camped at Hungry Horse Resevoir and Dam. It was FULL of mosquitos but when you grow up in MN they don't bother you all that much. Plus bug spray with 18% Deet helps! Here's some picks from our weekend outing with Ginger.

Look at the kids skipping rocks on Flathead Lake.

Picture of Hungry Horse Dam:

Ginger and Erik in front of dam:

Tonya and Ginger near Avalanche Creek in Glacier NP:

ERik in the evening by the reservoir:

A video of us near one of the falls on McDonald Creek in Glacier NP. The water was running fast and loud! A picture did not do it justice.

Thanks for stopping by today. A few more pics in next post.

A Visitor!

We had a visitor last weekend! Ginger, Erik's aunt from Arizona, came up for a visit. We had a very good time giving her a tour of some of the best sites in the area.

Her first day we took her to the National Bison Range, which you may remember from here. We had a great day for travelling and sight seeing. Here's a few pics:

Ginger and Erik

Arrowleaf Balsamroot and Mountains

Ginger and Tonya

Buffalo

They just had calving season and this guy was the closest to the road

Yellow headed blackbird:

Pretty view of the mountains:

Stop by later for our trip to Glacier with Ginger!

Views of a cats world

How are you all doing out there?? We've been doing well. It seems that now that we've been in Montana over 2 years we have less NEW stuff to post for you. We still REALLY love where we are living and we're getting outside all the time we just don't always take the camera anymore.
The cats wanted to say a quick hello and show off and few of the things they have been doing the past few months.

They used each other this winter to stay warm!



















Rio helped me make Thank You notes after Christmas!

They both like to play in the yard. Ferocious Kitty!

Geez, can you stop taking pictures of me!

Erik also like to stay warm with the cats on front of the gas fireplace.

Don't worry we have some good photos coming up. Visitors, views of Flathead Lake, Glacier etc. Stop back again in a couple weeks.

Mid Winter update

Boy, this winter is lingering on and on!! WE were starting to warm up here in Missoula. Spring was on the way and Old Man Winter shook his head and yelled, "No Way!" It's cold with snow flurries the last couple days. I don't think it would be that bad but for the fact that it had really warmed up here for a few days so it lures you into thinking it's going to stay that way! Uggggh! Well, at least we can continue skiing! ;-) We've been to visit to friends and ski with them in Feb. One is west in Sandpoint, ID and on is east in Bozeman, MT. We had great times of skiing and fellowship with our friends. Heres a few pics:

This is Picnic Point on the x-ctry ski trails at Schweitzer near Sandpoint, ID.












Here we are at Bohart Ranch x-ctry ski trails, Bridger Bowl downhill ski area is in the background. Gorgeous, huh? This is outside Bozeman, MT.









Laughing about something on the ski trails.













Erik pulled our friend' Jennifer's daughter, Eva in the sled. He did great, only dumped her once, HA! Jenifer is in the rear of the picture. We had turned Eva around so that she could talk to her mom.
Well, That's all for now! Until next time!