Have a laugh

Q: What's invisible and smells like carrots?



A: Bunny farts



I laughed a little harder than the joke warranted (it brought tears to my eyes), but it made me feel better after a HORRIBLE session of Mario Kart. The game cheats!

HA HA!!!

Our family is GROWing

Both my sister, Desiree, and sister-in-law, Raquel, are expecting. I went to both of their baby showers recently, and it was FUN!

Desiree's was first, even though she's due second. I flew into San Diego a couple days early and then my parents and I drove up to Sacramento. By taking a three hour detour to Lompoc to visit my grand-parents, we were on the road for 12.5 hours. Anywho, it was a surprise to Desiree that I was came to the shower. She was glad I was there and it was good to see them and their home--they've lived there for more than a year and I've never been out there. The shower and weekend was fun. Now I just get to wait for news of the baby boys' arrival!

I wasn't planning on going to Raquel's shower, but the timing worked out that it would be doable. It was closer, in St George, so it was just a short jaunt of 8 hours drive from Idaho (I broke it into two days' worth of driving by staying in Orem). I realized I hadn't been to St George since Thanksgiving, which is a LONG time considering how close it is. But, it was great having my two nieces run up to me and hug me as if I had spent no time away. They are adorable. It was also good to be in St George because of my grandpa's failing health--I'm glad I could see him again. So, this weekend was fun too. And Raquel is soooo ready to go into labor. It would have been awesome if she delivered while I was there. But such was not the case. Oh, and she's having a boy too.

PS--we aren't expecting, in case the title led you to believe that.

Epilogue

I recently was talking to my mom about our trip to Yellowstone and she mentioned how it sounded like I had never been there before. I HAVE been there before, it's just been a long time and different from what I remember. My parents say I have been there more than once, but I only remember a time that was the summer before 5th grade. That was the summer that we went across country to Boston--which is a trip I'm looking forward to with my own family.

And a BIG thank you to Noel and Nancy for taking us and being the tour guides.

And, the smell of the geysers isn't too bad--it just takes a while to get used to. I think it smells like rotten eggs. My grandpa had a couple geese and one night wediscovered their eggs had gone rotten. We(my siblings), as young kids, thought it would be a good idea to have a fight with them and break open as many as possible as close as possible to each other. Ooooh, it got bad. But, luckily, it was the boys' turn to sleep at the farm, the girls got to go back to the house in the village. They had to smell the rotten eggs all night. Ouch.

Yellowstone

Mike's parents took us to Yellowstone yesterday and we had a lot of fun. Our first stop was Old Faithful. We got there in pretty good timing--only had to wait about thirty minutes. However, the anticipation KILLED. They predict within 10 minutes, so we sat down ten minutes before the predicted time. We waited and waited and waited. The predicted time came and went, and finally, about seven minutes after the predicted time it went off. Oh, and it didn't help that it would randomly spurt out water every couple minutes, making us think it was time...




So then we went on a walk to another geyser and saw many on our way. We also had lunch at Old Faithful.



Of course we saw a lot of bison along the road. At a couple points they were lingering while crossing the road, holding up traffic.




We went to the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and saw some waterfalls. They have a couple walkways that take you down real close to the falls and it was really neat to be that close. This was probably my favorite spot there.





At the end of the day, we were going to go to some hot springs--we got all the way there and found out it was closed. BUMMER!!! But, on the way, we saw the coolest animal to spot at Yellowstone. Two black bears. They were a ways away, but I promise they were there. They were chasing some elk. Look hard at the pictures!





So, it was fun. We decided I need a better camera. You could probably tell that from the pictures. Oh, and I know I got a lot of back shots of Mike. I promise he was looking at the camera in some pictures as well. I just didn't use those.