Gorgeous!

Ashley and Bryson went to Ut for a missionary gathering and for conference (i think) and on the way they stoped at my Aunt Leisel's for a night. My aunt is amazing! For one, she can get any one to smile, laugh, you name it. Two, she does great with makeup! Three, she's an awesome photographer!

I love my niece! She is so dang cute. It's a blessing to have her at my home during this semester! I get all my picture book reading done when she is over and she eats up the book like crazy!

Children's Lit.

School is so great, except for the lame essay assignments with the most ridiculous prompts. The most stimulating class I have that I actually find useful, even though I can find pros and cons to all of them, is Childrens Lit. It's SO much fun! Talk about getting to color, talk, and find that inner reading buddy of yours that you thought you lost when you had to start reading text books back in high school. For this class we are assigned to bring four new picture books or 1 chapter book that we read for that week to read or tell to the class. Are you following here... reading picture books to college students. YES! Something I never thought I would do. It's great. I get to act out characters, use an accent, fall when the character falls in the book, etc. Oh and did I mention we color? Don't worry you write papers to, but this is what makes me want to be a teacher. The excitement behind the scenes. Oh and I get to write to a 6th grader! He's interesting. Anywho, I had to get snap shots for him so he would know who he was writing so here's the latest. I have to say that i'm getting petty good at using paint.

Yellowstone!

Post card Perfect! Thanks to Tod!

I thought this picture was amazing, reflections.

Ravens- if you have never seen how they walk, i'll have to demonstrate for you it's funny!

FINALLY!

Man it was hot as we waited for Old Faithful to blow! We missed it by 90 minutes!

I know the difference between Elk, Deer, and Moose now!

Ground Squirrel, there were 4-5 all togethere wait for their picture to be taken!

A big Big BIG waterfall, or just long but beautiful!

Tod on the top of a mt. accross from our campsite.

Water, can you tell i'm from the desert?

Arch into Montana- forgot who had it made but i know it was someone important. I'll get back to you!

K, so this is amazing because only bacteria can live here in this hot area. But the temperter is different. the difference in color can pretty much show that. So the bacteria had to adapt to the surroundings to survive. Bacteria is amazing if you think about it cuz it's lasted through out the years.

Can't forget your post office.

Artrist Point!

CLOSE UP! CHEESE!

The waterfalls were amazing. Oh the amounts of water.

Mud Volcano that Blew half of its side off. We stood on a platform looking at it forever being amazed!

had to get the buffalo. There are a ton and this is just .00001%, haha of the many that are there. But there use to be many more.
Can you imagine what it was like many years ago when Buffalo roamed the fields! CRAZY!

Cuz it's Utah with the Cuzs!

Coming down from WY, cows decided to take their time on the road. No joke! There were tons. If I ever figure out how to get videos to work I'll put the one Jaron took.

Had to take it- He's finally old enough and smart enough to run a city. RUN!

My cousin Madison and I are 3-4 years apart in age but other than that you cannot separate us. Funny how that works out!

It's a good thing that it doesn't snow in Tempe. We'd loose my dad in it.

My mom walking on clouds- almost!

They said we didn't need jackets. HAHA! RiGhT. it was so cold we huttled together!

Jay Dee in the parade!

Fireworks are amazing in Utah!

1 hr early to keep our seats! Crazy. In tempe you just have to get there 3 mins before. (across the street at the church)

Fancy car!

Ali's allstar softball game! Game face! Whoo!

Cousins- can't have to many of them, nor can you get enough of them! Can't wait until we meet up with you again!

(Cousin Bonnie is at the top, she took the picture)

The End: Home - wait 100 degrees? what?

Our way home from Layton, Utah ...
1) going to the Taysom Cabin!

2) cking it inside and out

3) eatting lunch there and making sure we sign our names just so we can say, (for example) "Natalie Taysom has been here!" Cha-Ching!
There were so many kids in the tiny little cabin all at one time. I mean 9-11 or so. Talk about small. I don't even get along with my brothers sometimes. Yikes.

It's beautiful though. It even has a potty!

This was fun. Right Jaron?

So all of our eyes were glued to the thermometer in the truck as we headed down to the valley. All, that is, except Jaron.

We couldn't believe it. We had had perfect weather all that time that when we were about to hit 90 degrees we were all dying of heat stroke.
That's when the air conditioning when back on!

This is the first deer picture I have ever seen from Jacobs Lake. Tod is the official sniper!

Out of all the nights that they could have slept together to make more room for the rest of us, esp. since I was the only girl, they chose the last night to sleep under the stars. Lucky for them, there weren't any bears, elk, buffalos, or any other yellowstone creatures to attack them at night. But don't they look so cute asleep? together?