Our trip to Wyoming and South Dakota!

We just got back from our trip to Wyoming and South Dakota! It was super fun. I took over 500 pictures, so I will be posting a little bit at a time. The above pic is of Owen and his cousin Dylan. I need to photoshop it some...I took it when it was dark!! Dylan is such a funny kid, and he LOVED Owen!

Here is the cabin that we stayed in when we were in South Dakota. We bunked with Corey, Gina, Brittany and Savannah. They were wonderful roommates who put up with Owen waking up several times a night!!

Here are some of the things that we did...again, I will go back and make day-to-day posts, but I just wanted to give a preview of sorts. The above pic is from when we went to Bear Country USA. It was SO neat! You drive through this park, and they have wolves, bears, mountain lions, etc that literally come right up to your cars! You are supposed to leave your window up, but Chris's cousin Ryann loves bears so much that she kept her window down! Ha! When we were driving through the bears, Owen kept saying "bear, bear, bear, bear" over and over.

We also rode on the 1880 train in Hill City...and our train car was even robbed by Black Bill-something-or-other...who may be one of the worst actors ever to live. :o)

Here is when Chris, Owen and I took a drive on Needles Highway, and stopped to take pictures and feed the chipmunks! Uncle Jerry took the kids past the partition, and let them climb on the rocks...how fun! Here you can see Aubrey, Cameron, Caden, some of Dylan and Jerry.

We also went to Sylvan Lake, which was amazing. Corey, Gina and the girls rode on the paddle boats! The adults were quite sore the next day...haha.

Owen and Daddy on Father's day! Owen's shirt says, "My Dad Is Rad." :o)

More pics from Needles Highway...




Me and Owen at Mount Rushmore! We study American Symbols in 1st grade, so I am stoked to show my class this picture next year!

Owen and Grandma Barb walking toward Mount Rushmore...I am pretty sure that Owen was pointing at one of his cousins and NOT the monument!

Here is Owen doing one of his favorite activities...throwing rocks!

Looking off of Casper Mountain in Wyoming. I wasn't okay with the height of the mountains at this point in the trip, so I was taking this from the car! More pics/stories to come!