Another one bites the dust!

Wa Hoo! On July 4th Craig and Becca got engaged. We are all so happy for them. They are happy too.

We saw a lot of cool things. Buffalo at our car door, long horn sheep crossing the road, fun parks, cool tunnels, huge rocks. The thing that was most amazing to me was the forest. Do you know they actually had to clean out the forest from trees? There were piles of trees in some places, then burn circles in other places (where they burned the piles). Other places that hadn't yet been cleaned had trees so thick you couldn't see through them. See in this picture all the little green things? Those are little trees! They grow that thick! I was so amazed. They are like weeds there. Wow!

vacation

Yeah! We went on a real vacation. We went to South Dakota. It was very enjoyable. It was cloudy and rainy part of the time, but I loved that. We got to see Mount Rushmore and some beautiful country. We felt bad that all of our family couldn't come with us, but at least we had the two girls.

This is such a pretty time of year. My tulips bloom just a little latter than many others, but when they come up they are so pretty! I love to look out the bedroom window. The crab apple tree is also beautiful in the spring with it's pink blossoms. I love Saturdays also because that is the day (usually) that we work in the yard and mow the lawn and for maybe 3 minutes it feels like the weeds are managed and everything looks great and smells great.