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I posted some draft posts that I didn't have time to complete. Look through my blog you might see some fun pictures of Tetons, Yellowstone, and Thermopolis.

Back to Salt Lake then Price Utah

Daddy and his "Dupers" in an aspen grove near where we decide to turn around because the boys weren't hiking well. Isn't it so green, I love it.

We would really like to move to Salt Lake when Jared is done with school. So we decided to go and see what the houses were going for. After looking at the price of the houses, I'm not sure we will be moving to Salt Lake. We do like how you can be in a large city and 15 minutes later you can be in the mountains. We went on a hike with the boys up Big Cottonwood Canyon, near Brighton Ski resort.

Johnny holding his own leash and walking himself on the Silver Lake boardwalk near Brighton, UT. He refused to be walked. I could just hear in my head him saying "me do it, me do it!" Oh the terrible two's, the independence, the no's, the double trouble terrible two's in two's.

Some ducks in Silver Lake.

Jonathan found a log to sit on to rest his weary legs.

Benjamin sitting on a log playing stick swords.

The reason why we want to move to Salt Lake City. Ahhh the mountains, the greenery, I mean the scenery. All I can say is after living in the desert for 5 years, this is just so green.

After Salt Lake we went to Price Utah to see my Dad. We went to the wave pool and the boys loved the waves. I had my hands full with towels and boys, I forgot to grab the camera, and there were a lot of Kodak moments at the wave pool. oops.

Thermopolis Wyoming ahh the Hot Water Springs

The first day we arrived in Thermopolis, I was able to spend time with my brother Jeremiah and his family. It was great to see all of them. It also was great to have extra hands to help with the twins. Their cousins were so great with Jonathan and Benjamin. Of course that night we had to go swimming. Ahhh, what great things the mineral water does for one's joints! Now that Jared has been so spoiled, he states that he will never swim in cold water again. What trip to Wyoming would be complete with out going to the Pizza Hut in beautiful Cody. Actually Cody has the one of the largest gun museums in the country. We were also able to take a scenic ride through the Big Horn Mountains over Powder River Pass (elevation 9,666 ft).

Jeremiah, Liam, and I in Mom's house in Thermopolis.

Back row: Elise, Ashlynne, Liam, and Brinton.

Front row: JonaThan (JT), Benjamin, and Julianna.

Some of the local wildlife at the aformentioned museum in Cody, WY. Wow look at the horns on that thing!




This is an Alaskan Brown Bear, it's a good thing that this one is stuffed!! He looks like he could play racketball with my head.

Home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play. Two deer in town, both posed to have their picture taken. It seems it was easier to take pictures of wild deer than it was to take pictures of my wild twins...

The deer just thought it would pull up some shade in front of this house.

Wow we saw so many of these in Yellowstone, but these ones we saw in Thermopolis. Just up the hill behind the Star Plunge pool were we went swimming.

My Indian Outlaws

I tried to capture the boys dancing, but they have a little camera fright. They do something cute until the camera comes out.

Benji in diaper, JT in shorts.

I was prompted to film the boys dancing due to our Outback experience. We walked outside of Outback and the music hit Benjamin and right in front of the door he started dancing. He was bopping his head, popping his knees, and of course the Benji tongue was out. People had to walk around him to get inside. I made the comment I guess he feels like dancing. Daddy really got to watch the show. Daddy reported to me that even though people were watching Benjamin just kept dancing. People in the restaurant heard about it and had to come to the door to look out. Jonathan decided he was going to walk to the truck and mom had to follow him.