Hank had the opportunity to join a new team. Lil’ Heart Sluggers is a great organization that was put together to support kids with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD). You can read about them here.
Here’s Hank with his baseball gear! Thanks Lil’ Heart Sluggers.
Every once in a while, I look back in my phone and compile all my instagram pictures. So many of them are moments I just don’t want to forget, so fortunately, you won’t forget either.
Drew and Hank’s first bike ride of the season. So funny, we all decided to go on a bike ride this evening. We ended up riding our bikes from Green Canyon down to Fredrico’s. It was a great ride down, not so great back up to home. Pretty hilarious though. Steve was having asthma attacks going uphill and Drew just kept yelling “go faster daddy.” Needless to say, we have not taken such big bike rides after that. (I guess this wasn’t on instagram, just on my phone)
Our latest trip to the cabin:
Hank trying out some of the old cabin hats that we have played with for years.
Drew got nasty hives on this trip. They were around for about 3 days or so. We couldn’t figure out where they came from as we hadn’t changed his diet or anything and he’s been to the cabin around all the different plants plenty of times. On the last day, he had a fever and really didn’t feel good. The next morning the hives were gone. Must have been a virus. He was a pretty good sport. It wore him out a bit though because I gave him benadryl around the clock.
This is about how it looks for our drive to and back from the cabin. The boys usually do pretty good.
The dogs and their haircuts after this last trip. They were so dirty. It’s always a surprise when I pick them up from the groomers. Guess they wanted to do something different with their tails. I think they rock it though.
Drew’s new “school shoes”
*sigh*
Hank on his own exploring during Drew’s kickball game. Don’t worry, he’s tied up.
I have been wanting to work on this project for awhile. Since I only have princes, not princesses, it didn’t make sense to make them. Then I remember, my 3 princesses who live far away.
I only got one hat done so far. Don’t worry princess o and princess e, yours are in the works, and they are going to be so fun.
I’m sure all of you have made tie dye shirts before, but I have never done it. My sister Lori thought we could do it this cabin trip. Seriously, what a fun project…and all of our stuff turned out. Yay for trying new things, even if you do dye your hands purple.
If you haven’t done this before people, do it!
I guess I should say happy birthday to Steve. It’s his 35th birthday today. We celebrated by having a birthday party in the evening. We also went on a hike this morning. Lori and Nate invited us, and after some coaxing, we decided we could go and take Hank along too. I was a bit nervous, but he did great. I guess next time, I will only haul one oxygen tank and not three. Thanks Dad and Steve for carrying them for me.
We did the Whit’s Lake trail. I haven’t hiked that for years, and I have to admit, it’s because I am scared of bears. Well, we did not get attacked by bears, or even see any, whew. (we were a loud crew between the younger kids howling like wolves and Hank crying every time they did).
Everyone went along, minus Grandma who had to work on a report at the cabin.
Such a pretty hike. There are so many wildflowers, wild strawberries and raspberries, and just wildlife.
No, the muppets (thanks Brian) don’t count as wildlife. I just liked Bert’s tongue in this picture.
We made it to the lower lake and it was nice and quiet.
And yes, this is bear country, so watch out!
I told you we didn’t see any bears, but we did see some bear tracks along the bank of the lake, but they looked old. They are hard to see in the pictures. Can you see them?
Since the kids were doing good and everyone was happy, we continued on to the upper lake. It’s not too much further, but it does have some steep areas.
And we made it! We stopped and ate a snack and explored a little bit.
We did see some osprey guarding their nest.
This is about how the way down went for Drew. He didn’t want to walk, and he especially didn’t want to walk in the horse poop.
Thanks for inviting us to go Lori and Nate. We had fun. We will have to go more often.
We took all the kids to the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone. It was fun to see the wolves. I don’t think I have ever seen them that active. They were howling and running around. Cool to see. We watched the bears for a second, but the kids were way more excited to go play on the playground, so we did. Hank had his first trip down a slippery slide “alone.” He did okay, but seemed to think it was okay. Drew was a good sport even though he was on his second day of full body hives and on tons of benadryl (pretty sure he had a virus – he had a fever that night).
I finally finished a project I was going to make for Drew way before Hank was even born. So, I made two, one for each.
Hat racks for the boys rooms.
I even got to use wood leftover from the cabin floor. I think they will work great.
