We had a ton of fun last Saturday going through Yellowstone. Elise was a little unhappy at the end because unknown to us she was coming down with swine flu. But still the trip was very enjoyable and I got some fun pictures. (I also just did a new post about Sarah's blessing below.)

Firehole Falls. Thank you Dad for being Vanna White for us.

I've never seen such a rich blue. It was beautiful!


This is me playing with my sweet Nikon camera. The first shot took it quick for the choppy look. The second is my favorite with the more flowing look.

This is a picture of my new house. I wish! This is the lodge by Old Faithful. It looks like the worlds most amazing tree house in a log cabin. I wish they would allow people up there. I know my dad was just DIEING to get up there!

Old Faithful before.


Old Faithful! Elise asked if it was doing the dishes and all the ladies around us laughed and thought she was so cute.


This is a picture of the smoke from the fire that closed part of the park. This view is from Old Faithful.

That red dot is the sun behind the smoke.


We went through a bit of Teton National Park on our way home. I got some cool pictures as the sun went down.


This was not on our Yellowstone trip. I took this on our way home from Sarah's blessing a few weeks ago. I thought it was pretty.

Baby Sarah's Blessing

Great Grandma Anne Beckstead holding Baby Sarah Anne Beckstead.
Grandma Linda and Grandpa Kelly Beckstead holding little Sarah.
Who could resist kissing her!

Lots of New Posts!

We have had a ton of things going on that I wanted to blog about and the easiest way to do it was to give each one there own post. So scroll down and read them all!!

Elise's First Day of PreSchool

Elise's started her first day of PreSchool in the 4 year old class today. This is the last year she will be going to Grandma's PreSchool but the first year with out me since I'm not teaching this year. She was so excited and we feel blessed that she has the opportunity to go to the best PreSchool!

Labor Day, Beckstead Family Reunion

We had a great time at Cherry Hill in Utah! Thank you to Aunt Jill and Grandma for all the fun activities!

Elise participated in the pie eating contests. It was so much fun to watch her get a little messy!

Randon and Nicole took us on a walk that went behind Lagoon. We had no idea it was there and it was really pretty.
Elise standing in front of a hug old rotted out tree. This was off the path of the Lagoon Trail.
Also off the Lagoon Trail, it was the perfect picture tree.
Cool bridge that we stopped on to take a look at the little creek below.
Elise really liked the hats that Grandma brought!
Fun with the jumping air toys that Aunt Jill rented. Everyone had a blast!


Scott won, but Michelle put up a really good fight! So fun to watch!! (I was cheering for you Michelle!!)

We celebrated Becka's second birthday on the 31st. We had so much going on the day before and the day after so we just had a small party with the family.

I told Becka to show me her teeth in an attempt to get her to smile.


Grandma Linda made the cake. It was so cute with the princesses that light up!
Our funny Becka girl. She loves to play with my shoes. We got her some princess dress up shoes for her birthday.

Baby Sarah

We were so excited to meet Baby Sarah! She is the sweetest little thing and Elise can't get enough of her!


Elise with Baby Sarah at the family reunion.
This is what Grandpa Kelly and Linden were doing in the waiting room when Baby Sarah was born. In all the excitement I had to stop and get this picture. Men can sleep through anything! So sweet!

Scott's New Job!

Scott will start his new part time job in two weeks. He will be working at Bio-life plasma services. If you don't know what that is it's a place where people, like myself, go twice a week and donate plasma to help others and you get paid for your time. We have got to know the people there really well and that's kind of how Scott got the job. We are really excited because it's a nice clean place to work with a lot of benefits!

Table Rock Mountain Hike!

We had so much fun hiking Table Rock Mountain. It took us all day Friday but it was worth it. We started up at 7am and we got back to camp around 8pm. We took our sweet time but we also got lost for about an hour. We didn't know that the trail went across the river because another trail went strait and then turned into a creek bed so we followed it but we soon realized that we were lost. We finally found the real trail after pushing our way through bushes, trees, mud, and rocks but we were having fun so it wasn't a big deal. We didn't know where we went wrong until we came back down. It was easy to miss the trail that went across the river. It was all worth it because the view of the Grand Tetons from Table Rock was so amazing!!

We stopped by this pretty waterfall on our way up for a snack.

This was at the top of the switchbacks. Scott, Carly, Nicole, Randon, Jordan, Annie Dog, and Sasha Dog. We thought that the swichbacks were hard and after that it was going to be easy until the last push to the top. We were wrong! There's very little oxygen up there and it makes it very hard to walk at all. We all had a very hard time getting to the top! Jordan almost made it but it just wasn't his day. The dogs on the other hand loved it. They were tired but they had no problems.

Annie and Sasha were in heaven when we found a patch of snow.

On the top of Table Rock Mountain. It was so windy Scott is holding my hat on. I can't believe how close the Tetons were. It felt like you could walk over and touch them!

This is on our way back down. We are somewhat pointing at Table Rock Mountain. We couldn't believe how far away it looked and we still had a long way to go. The fields of flowers were so pretty all the way up.

We went to Randon and Nicole's house in Utah from Wednesday to Sunday. Grandma Beckstead took us to Hogle Zoo Thursday and the girls loved it (We did too!) We had planed on coming to Randon's Friday to help him build a new deck but Scott was laid off last week and grandma invited us to come to the zoo and we decided why not! Scott and Randon worked so hard on the deck and it was so HOT outside! But they got it done Saturday night. Nicole and I stayed busy staining the wood and pulling the weeds in the flowerbeds. But we found a snake in one and I wasn't much of a help after that. We all took a break and went to a near by water slide park to cool off and it was so nice. Saturday night Nicole and I went to Wal-mart and got Randon a cake for his birthday. We picked the Sponge Bob Square pants and he laughed when he saw it. We had a great time and it was nice to spend time with Randon and Nicole.... And Sasha dog too!

Elise looking at the crocodiles.

I don't know what kind of monkey this was but he liked Scott. There is glass between them.

Becka playing with a Mira cat. It was so cute! He would follow her fingers along the glass.

Randon, Nicole and Becka on the train at the zoo.

Scott and Randon cutting stuff.

I'm not sure Randon should have a hammer!

It's starting to look better!

Yha! It's done! They did a great job and it looks awesome!

Happy Birthday Randon!!

13 might fit this cake more, but 31 is the age. The cake was really yummy and we all had blue mouths after.