Idaho Adventure(s) (part two)

 We took a drive through Yellowstone Bear World and we were able to see a lot of fun, big animals!

Deer

Bison

A grizzly bear playing in the water

Black bears

Brown bears

And a moose

After driving through and seeing the big game animals, we went into the petting zoo. The boys were able to pet and feed goats, ducks and deer.

I like this picture

We loved seeing this peacock with all of his beautiful fan of feathers.

Tessa enjoying the ride from grandpa

feeding the hungry deer

This one REALLY liked Nathan, he got lots of kisses from him.

His wet hair from the deer licks

Anderson got to feed the baby ("just my size") deer.

baby bear cubs wrestling

We even fed some rainbow trout

After all that hard work, some much deserved Popsicles!

Our Idaho adventure(s) (part 1)

 As grandma Anderson had to move big grandma Ross back into an assisted living home, we planned a trip to go to Idaho to see big grandma. 

We did lots and saw a lot of things while we were there. One of the days we went to see big grandma Ross and she was sleeping, so we went to a nearby park to play until she woke up. The park wasn't much fun, so we went and threw sticks into the Snake river and climbed on an old Army tank.

 Big grandpa Ross taught Tessa how to catch her lovey, it was so cute!

 After playing in the park for a while we went back to visit big grandma. My uncle Stacy and his wife Mollie were there to see grandma also. I haven't seen my uncle in quite a few years, and this was the first time I met aunt Mollie (David actually met her before I did, back in May).

 Back at grandpa and grandma Anderson's we played some Lego soccer.

 While we were outside playing/working one of grandpa's friends who works for the city showed up in his backhoe. He was nice enough to let the boys check it out.

 After a fun break in the backhoe, it was back to work, sweeping up the cherry pits the birds dropped after raiding the cherry tree.

 Tessa was a good supervisor.

After the clean up, another fun break. Grandpa took the boys for a 4-wheeler ride.

The Grand Marriott Resort Mobile, AL.

David's unit had a week long trip to Mobile, AL. and most of the families went down too. We had a great trip. The boys were very excited about swimming in the Ocean and making sand castles. Tessa did not want to sit or stand in the sand, but she was ok being held in the ocean. 

After our initial ocean excursion, we spent most of the rest of the time in the hotel pool. There were always lots of kids to play with. Nathan especially had a lot of fun with Ian & Emma McRae. Ian and Emma are like fish in the water and Nathan gained a lot of confidence in his swimming from them. He put his face all the way in the water for the first time ever! He played "chicken" with Ian and got dunked a few times, but he is ok with it now. I am so proud of him!

Swimming with daddy

Nathan showing us how he can swim underwater now

While we were there we went to visit the USS Alabama, an awesome battleship in Mobile. It was actually where the 4th CST was doing their training exercise, so we got to see David while we were taking out tour. The boys had a lot of fun running around the ship checking out all the cool stuff. The only problem was, it was super hot and I had to carry Tessa below deck. After the battleship, we were all to tired to check out the submarine. But we had a lot of fun!

 

The only downsides of our vacation, On Monday morning we had to take Tessa to urgent care-she had pink eye. Anderson developed a rash, I thought it was from his puddle jumper. Turns out the rash was actually Strep. He never had a fever or sore throat, but apparently a "sandpaper rash" is a symptom of Strep-oops!