Family Pictures

Matt Draper did our pictures for us, he is amazing!

Thanks again Matt, we love them!

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Yellowstone

We took a weekend getaway up to Yellowstone, we were lucky enough to have Brant and Kirsten tag along! It was a short trip but it's always nice to get out of the city. My favorite part about Yellowstone is the wildlife, I spend hours and hours in the car trying to find BEARS (my other favorite) so as soon as we got there I convinced Brant to take a drive with me, and we found tons of Elk and 2 moose! Saturday morning the boys went fishing, Dan was excited to teach Brant how to fly fish; the fishing must have been good because they all caught a few fish! Kirsten and I went into the park to find some animals but we didn’t have very good luck. Later that night, we went for another drive and found 3 big horn sheep right off the side of the road, we had a great time watching them! Sunday morning we decided to take the upper loop in the park and we sure did get lucky…we saw a grizzly bear, black bear cub and a few bull elk. Even though we spent about 20 hours in the car (poor Kirsten) we had a great time! We LOVE the time we get to spend in Yellowstone and we looking forward to our other trips we have planned up there this summer!

Brant got a new lens for his camera so I left most of the picture taking up to him but here are a few pictures I took over the weekend.

Enjoying the nice weather

We enjoyed the nice weather by doing some more 4-wheeling. 

We went the Liberty Park with the Bell's!

Jada and Kira thought it would be fun to feed the ducks from a paddle boat, Tasha and I figured it would be a good work out.

Dan and Kira

Dan brought Sadie, the girls couldn't get enough of her!

Dad's retirement

My Dad retired last week after 24 years of service to the NSL police department. It was sad to see him end that chapter in his life but we are looking forward to spending more time with him! Here are a few pictures from after his party.  

I have a picture just like this from when I was 9 months old, I am so glad I got one more with him in his uniform before he retired.