Our Glacier Trip

So all last week, we were gone on a vacation to Clacier National Park in Northern Montana. For those of you who know us well, you know that we go on a big camping/road trip every summer. Well, due to gas prices and the fact we bought a house this year, we cut our trip to one week and brought friends along. Rather, we went with them. The Hollingsworths are our friends from Pocatello--Cameron and Blake were pretty good basketball and studying buddies. They have three small children (ages 4, 3, and 1 1/2), and we all fit in their minivan to go on this trip. It was quite the adventure. The first night, Cameron had the genius idea that we would drive all night so the kids would sleep. Well, no one slept and we arrived to White Fish, Mt, where we would be camping at 4 a.m. We were exhausted and we tried to sleep a few hours in the van, parked ourside of the campground. Needless to say, we were not very rested but boy did we make some memories that first night! For those of you who have never been to Glacier, I totally recommend it. It was a beautiful park with tons of waterfalls, wildlife, and amazing views. We saw big-horn sheep, mountain goats, deer, and bear . . . droppings. We could have seen a bear. These pictures are but a taste of our adventures. I had a lot to chose from as between Cameron and Blake, we had 1100 pictures. Wow!

All of us on our boat ride on MacDonald Lake. It was Cameron's birthday, and he got wished a happy birthday on the loud speaker. Seeing his face go red was priceless.

One of the many beautiful views we saw on this trip.

It may be hard to see, but this is me with big-horn sheep right behind me. There was about a dozen of them wandering through on of the parking lots. At one point they almost stampeded right over the Hollingsworth kids.

Cameron made us wonderful dinners--he is an excellent dutch oven cook.

These kids made us crazy at times but they are so cute and we just love them!

Brayden and Carter having a water fight at our campsite. Cameron started it of course.

The Hollingsworth family in front of St. Mary's Falls

I forgot to mention that we went to Canada one of the days, as were only staying 2 hours away from the border. This is the Alberta Temple in Cardston, a town right inside Canada.

We met up with Cameron's mission companion in Cardston, Alberta. Danny Bennet and Cameron were AP's together for 6 months. It was neat to spend time with he and his wife and eat the best pizza we had ever had.

Cameron and his buddy Carter on one of the snow-covered stretches of a beautiful hike. Those kids were troopers!