I put her hair in pigtails for the first time!!
Tyson is looking all snazzy and ready for church too (not sure what Scott is doing in the background) :)
Another shot of my patriotic girl!
Matching girls!
On Monday, 3 other family friends of ours and us went out to Fremont Lakes to roast hot dogs and make s'mores. We got a great location on a busy day and I'm bummed I didn't grab more pictures of all the kids running around or any of the adults, but did get this cute one of Camille enjoying a swing. 
The kids LOVED swimming in the lake. The two pasty boys on the right belong to me! All the dads were kind enough to go swimming with the kids while the wives sat on the beach to chat!
Two cute swimmers...
and one bathing beauty!
Then we hurried over to a fabulous firework show! We were sitting on quite a steep hill and this shot caught me rolling backward while trying to position myself! No babies were harmed in this photo op. Lovely, right??
However the kids were not thrilled with getting their pictures taken anyway. 
It was a fun fun day and we drove home with 2 kids fast asleep in the back! The 4th of July is such a great holiday!!
A little bit of snuggling on the couch goes a long way. Tyson wanted to be a cowboy one morning. He found his hat and told me he needed his boots and headed upstairs. Knowing we don't have cowboy boots, I wondered what he would come down with. They were his snow boots. Even cowboys can encounter bad weather sometimes.
My cousin, Marissa and her family came up from Kansas for a short trip on Memorial Day. She has twins(boy and girl) 2 months older than Tyson. Her son, Chance, and Tyson were 2 peas in a pod! It was too much fun to watch them together! (This is the only picture I have and I don't know why they came out so blurry) 
We've also been bowling with our summer passes a couple times. Tyson gets better each time.
Even with his dad showing him such great form, Tyson insisted on putting the ball on the ramp and then pushing it down with his belly...
And sometimes with the ramp, he still ended up in the gutter, before the bumpers could help him. Not quite sure how that's possible but leave it to Tyson to figure it out!
Hopefully, we'll have many more summer adventures in store for us.
Our second day, we went to a chairlift/alpine slide in Keystone which had a great overlook of Mount Rushmore. Scott and Camille on the way up...
Future Presidents...
The top also provided many photo opportunity with the grandparents and grandkids!
Our next free excursion took us to a park called Storybook Island, where they had tons of displays based off of Disney movies, cartoons, Nursery Rhymes...everything.
That night we packed up and headed off to the lighting ceremony of Mount Rushmore. When we sat down, they told us they were going to hurry the session along to try and beat the storm that was coming. We looked around and didn't notice any storm in the sky. When they started showing the little film, these dark clouds crept towards us along with a tiny little sprinkle and lightning in the distance. We headed back up the stairs to make a quick exit if needed. They soon played the national anthem and slowly the lights came on. When the final notes of the song played, the rain started POURING and the wind picked up BIG time!! Every started screaming and running for the cars which were down a long path away. Mass chaos! Then the hail started coming!! I threw Tyson in the stroller (Camille was asleep back at the campground with Luke and 3 of Kristin's kids) and Scott took off fast pushing him and weaving in and out of people towards the car. I took off after him leaving behind Kristin and Tanner (her son) and my parents to fend for themselves (again, I'm sorry) I took a lot of grief for it but I was trying to catch Scott and Tyson and figured everyone knew where the car was. We all made it to the car SOAKED to the bone and laughing hysterically!! Funny memory for sure! 
And one last shot of the family before we left. We are looking a little tired and dirty, but thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! Too bad our kids won't remember such a fun trip, but at least there are lots of pictures!
State flags leading up to Mount Rushmore. Very cool. (Scott's in there too)
Camille was a tired girl and eventually fell asleep. She wore a bib a lot of the weekend because she is quite the drooler. 
Tired boy Meltdown #1
Meltdown #2
He's happy again. Love the moods of a 3 year old. He happened to just be climbing rocks when I snagged this picture. I love how it turned out.
It was a very fun start to our trip. I loved seeing such a cool monument.
The eye of the needle: 
This particular tunnel was 8'4" wide and 12' tall. We could touch the rock outside our car window.
The family:
Next, we went through the wildlife loop to view some buffalo and antelope. There were a couple herds right next to the road. I loved this part of the trip. 
All of the sudden, one came over and stuck his head inside the car! I was flipping out and started to roll up my window but everyone said to keep it down. He was just sniffing around (notice the 2nd donkey looking suspicious) 
Then there were 
We made a quick stop at Crazy Horse Memorial. I thought it was a waste of money. Only because you pay a lot of money to get in and you still don't get a close up of the monument. You had to look through binoculars to get a good view of it. And its only the profile. Now, the first weekend in June they let people hike all the way up to it which might have been cool, but we had just barely missed it. Tyson and Camille sharing the stroller, but not for long, don't worry.
I thought we'd better document that we went there at least!
