Memorial Weekend Trip- Part 3

May 24th- This is what the weather was like when we went to Mt. Rushmore. It was a little dissapointing. We walked around the trails and looked at the museums. There are a lot of stairs.

Standing in front of Mt. Rushmore

Clearing momentarily.

After seeing Mt. Rushmore we were going to go to Reptile Gardens but instead went impulsively to Bear Country. It's like a drive thru wildlife thing. All I can say is they must make loads of money because it was packed and they don't charge per car it's per person in the car. Yikes! What was supposed to take 30-45 minutes to drive thru took well over an hour. We were thinking it was pretty lame until we got Shalon out of her carseat and let her drive the car. She made it all worth it. When we finally got around to the bears she would tap on the glass and cry "beaw" (she can't say r's very well if at all). Wes said that was worth it and after we got out and walked around babyland we went to the gift shop and she was awarded a bear by daddy.

Bear in a tree.

Bear cubs.

Shalon watching the baby bears.

Memorial Weekend Trip- Part 2

We took Cutler swimming for the first time. He's a water baby just like Shalon. May 23rd, 2009.

Memorial Weekend Trip- Part 1

We decided to take a spur-of-the-moment trip to Mt. Rushmore for Memorial Weekend. We didn't leave until about noon on Saturday because I had to go visiting teaching Saturday morning.

May 23rd Storybook Island- Rapid City, South Dakota

This is the place to go if you have kids. It has all sorts of things for kids to play on/in. Everything is from Nursery Rhymes, Storybooks, and the movies. Best of all it was FREE! although they do accept donations...

Wesley, Wesley pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her,
so he put her in a pumpkin shell and there he kept her very well...

Had to prove he was there... most picture are of Shalon.

Winnie the Pooh

Raggady Ann and Andy

aka Shalon and Cutler

Noah's Ark

Aladdin and Shalon

101 Dalmations

Jack and Jill's hill

The train... Shalon's in the last car

One thing I thought was really cool about this place it was wheelchair friendly. They had a swing for wheelchairs and also the cabbose on the end of the train was for someone in a wheelchair. There was also a playground just for kids 5 and under.

If you go to visit Mt. Rushmore you must take your kids here.

Daddy's Favorite Trick

Wes' favorite trick is to put the kids on his hand and make them balance. He started doing this with Shalon when she was 3 months old and recently started doing it with Cutler. He does it everywhere and loves getting a reaction. At first I was nervous but now it's old news.

Cutler May 21st- 1 day shy of 3 months old

Shalon when she was 4 months old- Oct. 2007
(I couldn't find any earlier pictures)

Playing with Cousins

May 19th... Lovell, WY...

Shalon got to go to the park and play with Wes' cousin Becky's girls. Cutler got to go along but mainly stayed in the stroller...

Cutler

Alyssa, Hailey, Kenadee, and Shalon

(I went to Becky's blog to try and figure out who was who. Sorry if I got it wrong!)

Shalon and Kenadee

Swingin' Fun!

May 18th- Lovell, WY

May 18th. It was really hot in Lovell and I hadn't brought any shorts for Shalon because it had been kinda cold the previous week so we stripped her down to her diaper and let her run through the sprinklers with Uncle Kurtis. She loved it.

Cutler

Wes

Shalon

Uncle Kurtis and Shalon

Where to Begin

I need to play catch up from the last couple weeks. I left off on my birthday... We didn't do much I'd kinda been celebrating for over a week before because I got a re blooming pink lilac from Wes' parents. Haven't killed it yet. :) Wes was going to take me to dinner but Shalon was having a bad day and we didn't want to take her to a restaurant so we ordered in and got those new pasta bowls from Dominoes. They were good. We ordered our food online which was kinda cool. It tells you what they are doing as they do it and it shows when your food is done. Wes ordered me some Temptations ovenware off QVC for my birthday. We love QVC...

(I tried to put a picture up of what he got me but I couldn't get it to work.)

These pictures are from that week in Lovell. There was a big windstorm one night and part of a tree fell on David and Susan's house but luckily there was no damage.

Cutler May 13th

Tying Wes' jean blanket. Grandma Walker, Susan, Shalon. May 13th

Shalon and Mommy

Downed tree limbs. May 13th

Wes and Kurtis cut down the limbs and cleaned up the mess.