part 4.

 Beautiful lake on the way to four corners from Moab... the color was amazing.

Georgea had to model her new glasses at four corners.  

We were all in different states at the same time!!  

                                     

 AT Mesa Verde, Mom got to be classroom helper and show everyone sherds of pottery that had been found there.

 Holes that had been made to collect water

hand print

prickly pear

Rosalee getting wrapped up in the stairs!  

Elic and Georgea getting sworn in as junior rangers ( I think they did it at 4 or 5 parks!) 

Rosalee trying out the old 'steps' 

we had a deer in our campground!  

An old silver town on the way out of Colorado had some great stuff to take pics of!  

This 4 way stop was in the middle of the road and just had signs on all 4 sides.. interesting.  

There was even an old scout!!!!  

Stopped for a picture at a nice waterfall.  What a nice, warm, sunny day!! 

c. present (part 3)

           

we saw lots of rocks on our way to Dinosaur National Monument,

and when we got there we saw lots of bones!! 

Sweetpea and the kids in front of the dinosaur quarry. 

dinosaur bones!!!

one of the canyons around dinosaur, with the Green River flowing in front.  

Dinosaur eating Elic's arm!  

 Petroglyphs!! 

The kids and me in front of the quarry.

 After dinosaurs, we went to see arches!  Lots of Arches!!!

the windows

balancing rock

yep, this is what they did... for 3 weeks!!  

Everyone should hold balancing rock... right??!! 

... and more arches!  

                                                 

christmas present (part 2)

Went to Devil's Canyon on our way to Crater of the Moon.  

 Took a 'hike' down by the dam... that was a LOT of stairs!

                Devil's Canyon

           Saw a quail with all her babies.

     Amazing the amount of beehives that we would see along the road.  There were 4 to a pallet... had to do my math 2 or 3 times to really let it sink in how many hives there were!

    We saw lots of goats!

 Bearded iris... wish these would grow here!!!

    The flowers were beautiful!   Went to the botanical gardens in Boise and saw lots of blooms!

  Our professionally photographed family pic!  Thanks Bridgette!

 Rosalee in the roses.

 Elic enjoying a seat in the shade.

 Rosalee's senior pic... okay... 8th grade graduation pic!

 An old jail tower at the gardens.

 We made it to Crater of the Moon, and it was cold!

Sweetpea and the kids.

 Love this saying.

 Indian paintbrush-- would like to find some seeds of this one and see if it would grow at home.

 We went spelunking!  Old lava tubes make great caves to check out!

Me emerging from the cave... made it out of the dark!!

 Creepy Elic!

 Lava formations.

 Georgea in the dead trees.

 Went to the top of an ash pile (have to remember what that's called)  It was windy and chilly!
Looked it up-- cinder cone.

Our sunset on the way to Mountain Home, as seen in the side view mirror.