The drive to Montana 2012

Bull Elk

I love it!

This was a memorial of all those killed in wars that were from Idaho. It was pretty neat!

Ty lost his first tooth on August 5, 2012

                            

On August 4th, we loaded up the car, picked up Grandma and Grandpa Jensen and headed to Big Sky Montana. Since we have so many pictures, I decided to break this post up into parts! Here are the pictures of the journey there! We stopped at Cabelas because who's husbands pass by without stopping! The kids had a great time seeing all the animals and of course begged us to buy everything they set there little eyes on! Oh the joys of stores and little kids! We stayed at my sister, Lauri's, house in Stansbury Park, Utah on Saturday night. We got ice cream and then went to this fun little lake right by her house! The kids loved feeding the ducks and running around playing with each other! The boys are always so excited to see their cousins! I was sure someone was going to land in the lake, but surprisingly no one fell in! We were all tired from the drive there, so it was good to get the kids' energy out, so we could all go to bed! Unfortunately, everyone fell asleep, but the kids were still up being crazy! On Sunday morning we got up and were in the car by 8:00am and Josh was very impressed with me for having everyone out to the car on time! I always let him know that I can do it if I have to:)  Josh and his parents had never been to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, so we decided to go that route. It is a fun little tourist town and they wanted to see the antler arches! We decided to eat while we were there, but no one was impressed with the pizza we ordered! We decided we should have just gotten plain cheese like the kids! We explored a few things in the town square and then loaded up and were off again! On this route to Big Sky, we had to go through both Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone! It was a beautiful drive, but there were so many trees that you couldn't really see anything beyond them and we started to feel a little claustrophobic!  We stopped at the Tumb Pots in Yellowstone because we needed a potty break and the kids were so excited to see all the Geysers! They were pretty awesome and we even saw to Cow Elk drinking and then a little Bull Elk came racing in and bedded down in the grass! Tenley was not too impressed, but everyone else was really excited about it! We were really close to the elk and I just hoped they didn't decided to come racing our way!  Even though we were having fun, it was time to get back in the car and get to our condo! Well, we pulled into the condo at about 7:30 or  8:00pm. It was so nice to get there, but we really did have a beautiful drive getting there! The condo was really nice and cozy and right out our back door was Lake Levinsky! We were really excited about that!  We needed food for breakfast in the morning, so we found the little grocery store and were in shock at the prices and selection! We got the bare essentials and decided we would go into Bozeman the next day and find a Wal-Mart!  If you want to hear about the rest of our trip, stay tuned.....