Beartooth Mountain Pass

Saturday July 31 in the afternoon we decided to go for a drive we had heard about this Beartooth Mountain Highway out of Red Lodge so we jumped in the van a took off. It was beautiful! The road has a lot of switch backs and we got up there in elevation. Over 11,000 feet! We saw snow! We were trying to get to a patch of it. They have what they call watermelon snow. It is purplish pink snow that is suppose to be sweat to the taste but we never found any that looked good enough to eat.
Here are some pictures of our afternoon. I hope you enjoy the pictures. We sure enjoyed our day.

Floating the Dry Bed

Mikes parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 22. The only thing they wanted was to have their family together and attend a temple session. It was a beautiful day and they had the majority of their family with them over 30 of us was there. Following temple we had our traditional Foster chicken fry. Later that evening the boys decided they wanted to go floating. It was late by the time I dropped them off it was 8pm as you will be able to tell from the photos the water was cold!!!!

Levi's 11th Birthday

Levi had a very unusual birthday this year he got to celebrate it for a couple of weeks.
First off he spent it in Colorado helping his Uncle David move back to Idaho. So he did not get to celebrate it with us or open any presents untill the end of July.

Here he is opening his presents.


Here is all his loot. A book on oragami, seeds to grow a Venus Fly Trap, toothbrush, church socks, bottle caps to earn coke rewards and a bunch of fireworks.





I can't believe you are 11. Happy Birthday!


But the thing he wanted most was a rabbit. You can't have a rabbit without a cage.
So here we are building a rabbit cage and a chicken coop. Now we just need a place to keep them.








Thanks grandpa Foster for keeping them for us till we get settled here in Montana.

BEE'S, BEE'S & MORE BEE'S

Our bee hives our doing real well and our "herd" is growing like mad. Here we are adding honey soupers so they have room to grow.

Passing The Rest of The Summer

SLIP-N-SLIDE & WATER BALLOONS

A week at Grandma & Grandpa Yost's

Mike had a week of meetings in Salt Lake City so went along and got dropped off at my mom's for the week. Before Mike left on Monday Logan got us all to go over to Grace and try the flume out with him. I use to do this as a teenager. It sure is alot different when you are older and it's your children going down it. I wanted to share a few pictures of our day and the beautiful country.



The Bear River.


The Flume

Logan has this thing with heights and hanging over the edge. It about puts me over the edge I don't like heights and couldn't even stand to watch him.





Those our the boards to walk back across. That was the hardest part of the experience for me. Did I say I hate heights?


The whole gang.

Jumping In!



Here they all come back after they floated down the flume.

Now it is my turn.



Since we had a week to spend I got Kate & Levi enrolled in Swimming Lessons.
Levi was able to complete his Swimming Merit Badge.





They had fun with their cousins on the slip-n-slide and just putting water on the trampoline.

We spent one day at the Word Famous Lava Hot Springs!
The kids had a blast it was a beautiful day to be at the pool.
I had so much fun going down the slides and just being together that this was the only picture I took.






Logan & Ryver jamming out with Guitar Hero.
I'm not sure who was have more fun!

Summer Begins With Sisters

My summer began with our traditional girls trip.
This year we all just came home.
We meet in Pocatello and did some shopping and had dinner together then headed for Bancroft where we spent a relaxing weekend together.
This is us with our loot after 8 hours of shopping.



Here we are exchanging recipes. We all brought our recipes and shared some of our favorites. I really enjoyed this and needed some new ideas.



A girl's trip wouldn't be without me convincing Mom to highlight my hair.
Because Logan is spending the summer with Grandpa & Grandma working. He got to take part in this tradition.
His Aunts convinced him to let us highlight his hair with my left over stuff. What a good sport he is.







It doesn't look that bad. I guess it could have been worse.



We worked all day making watch bands, necklaces, and bracelets. I had had enough, I had just finished a project for the second or maybe third time, and went to tie it and the string snapped sending beads all over the floor. Here I am throwing a fit.

Overall we had a great time catching up and just being together again.

I LOVE YOU GUYS!