Living in Montana

I have now been settled in Montana for almost a month and I actually like it. I love my job...it is 100% better than teaching in Rock Springs....and I have met some nice people and made some good friends.

This is a picture of Fort Peck Lake....it is huge and is only like 20 min away from where I live.
Another picture of the Lake.

This is pretty much what it looks like up here.....lots of open spaces and farmland. It is different from the Mountains that I am used to but I am kind of liking it.

This is my classroom....a view from where I sit to run the computer and smart board. The kids sit along the walls at a computer.

My friend Caitlin (English Teacher) the one with the flowers around her neck threw a Cap and Gown party at her house. I thought that was a fun theme and I could not believe I still had my cap and gown from getting my Masters.

I even got flowers from a certain someone.

This is the certain someone....I will tell about him another time :-)

Tarene came and stayed with me a night because she was driving back to Saskatoon from Utah. It is awesome that we live close enough to visit each other now. The guy is the Social Studies teacher and football coach. I had a teachers dinner that night and Tarene tagged along. It was a super fun night and later that night we went out and some Native Americans gave us our Indian Names....I am Cherry Woman and she is Wise One????? Don't ask me how that came about?

Pinedale and Yellowstone

For fathers day dad, mom, Greg Jr. (he was sick) and Morgan met me at Bevin and Sara's house in Pinedale. Then after fathers day weekend, me, Morgan, Sara, Bevin, Carter, and Avery took a trip to Yellowstone. Lets just say I could use a long break break before I see Bevin's family again......no really it was great fun and there were no big fights that happened with anyone.......I just did not get any sleep :-) It was super fun and we got some good pictures.

This picture is at the top of a mountain where there is a great view of the Wind River Range.


We took a drive to get to a lake but the road was closed for tree removal so this is as close as we got. It has now been two times Bevin has tried to get me and Sara to this lake and each time our plans get foiled...first time it was a blizzard and then this time???? Truman for sure!!!

On our walk home from the park.

We all took a walk.....we walked to the post office, then the library, then had lunch at the park, and then jogged all the way back home.

At the Pinedale park.

Morgan and Carter playing at the park.

Leaving for our walk/jog.

Just got to Jackson....the start of our Yellowstone adventure.

All the Cox cousins....oh wait Will is missing.

Last day of our trip back from Yellowstone at the Cody dam...no one else wanted pictures so me and Sara just jumped out to get one.

This is at the Dragons Hot Pot....the smoke and the sound it makes sounds like a dragon.

The whole gang at my favorite place inside Yellowstone - Artists Point.

The falls we saw right before we saw our first grizzly bear.

This was my favorite place of the whole trip.....Mesa Falls in Idaho. We had to drive an hour out of the way but it was sure worth it. If you ever get a chance to get to Mesa falls you should for sure go and see it.

If I don't name a picture it is because I don't remember what the places were called. Sara has the book that names them. She was the smart one who ordered a book that shows all the places to see in Yellowstone and the surrounding areas.

Moose falls....one of my favorites because you could swim in the pool below the falls. People were swimming when we got there. We did not want to swim because we just got on the road for our trip and I am sure the water was freezing.

Entering Grand Teton National Park. The lady taking the picture sure did not know how to get things centered???

Hodge Podge

Been all over lately and have a billion pictures. So here is a "hodge podge" collection.
Me and Morgan with Trisha and Taylor in California. Every year around mothers day these flowers bloom and we take pictures. I was going to kill Morgan cause she was freaking out about the spiders and bugs in the flowers and would not sit there and smile good. So her is the best pic we could get with us four.

This is the sign we made dad cause he is the best Dad in the world. He went to the store to buy us all food and we put this on the door for when he came back.

Two more pics where Morgan will not smile cause she is so worried about bugs that are not doing anything?

Morgan at her dream music store in Korea plaza. We had to drive through some crazy Los Angeles neighborhoods to get to this place.

While in LA we finally took a Hollywood tour on an open bus. This is the picture of the balcony in Pretty Woman where they kiss at the end.

The Hollywood sign.

View of downtown LA.

The Beverly Hills sign.

The witch house in Beverly Hills.

Inside these gates is the house where Michael Jackson died.

This was a stop sign on the corner of the house where Michael Jackson died.

This is Simmon Cowell's house.

We took a drive up White Mountain in Rock Springs. This is a view of the whole city of Rock Springs.

It was soooooo windy on top of that mountain....we are all going to blow away.

This was a snow cloud. Anywhere it went it snowed.....come on it is May???

I had to go back to Logan to go to my friend Kristi's wedding. She looked way pretty.

Kristi getting married.

I made Keystone be my date for the wedding. He actually cleans up nice.

We took a drive up to Porcupine Dam.

Porcupine Dam....it was so pretty. The water was the highest I had ever seen it. I cannot wait for camping!