A Whole New World

It was so nice to go back to Portugal with Kyle and meet everybody and tour all the cool things that he got to see without me. It was hard at first because of the time change and everybody only spoke Portuguese but by the end it was kinda fun to just tune everything out and not worry about what is going on or what people are saying. It is EXTREMELY different over there compared to America. For starters....

Bucawhau....ew. All the stores would smell like it and it was gross.

Pastels De Nacas. Kyle's favorite treat there. He got one every chance he could.

All the scenery was different too. Did you know that cork comes from the bark of a Cork Tree?

Castles were everywhere. This is the view of Lisbon from the St. George Castle.

Standing on the outer wall of the Castle.

I loved all the Arch ways they build back in those times.

Down Town Lisbon there is a super old elevator. It was really cool to see it even though we didn't get to go to the top. In this picture you can also see all the cobblestone streets and sidewalks. All I can say is good that its good we have cement. I couldn't stop tripping the whole time we were there.

Us in the main squire in Lisbon. It was a really fun city to see. I'm glad that we had a chance to go back so quickly. Everybody treated us so amazing. We are going to be forever in debt to all the friends that took us in and made their home ours.

Yellowstone Take 2

I can't ever seem to get Yellowstone into one post without bogging everything down with a million pictures. Maybe next year will be different. If it would stop being so pretty maybe, but I don't see that happening....unless that gigantic volcano underneath it erupts but then we all might just be dead if that happens so lets hope not.

Here is the prettiness I was talking about and the handsome guy! Sorry he's taken!

One of our favorite hikes is Uncle Tom's Trail down to the Lower Falls. It is seriously breath taking...not only because it's 300+ stairs to the bottom but the view too.

Here is the Lower Falls in all its 309 foot drop glory!

The whole Fam Damly in front of the falls. I loved that we got to take them there for their first time to Yellowstone. We kept telling them they would love it. Maybe they will start coming faster now that they know we know what we are talking about!

The brink of the Upper Falls. It was really cool to lean over the side and see the water falling over the edge.

Last day in Yellowstone we went to Old Faithful.

Dad, Mom and Kaden with Old Faithful at its fullest. I'm really glad we went and can't wait to go back again. I guess we will have to see what next year has in store for us. I'm thinking Redwoods? I don't know though Yellowstone Lake would be cool to see too and I need to find a big moose and grizzly bear still. I mean Kyle needs to find them for me. ;)

Yellowstone!! Yes it was almost 2 months ago

So I know that I'm horrible and slacking but a lot has been going on here lately and to be honest even thinking of looking though 700+ pictures from Yellowstone and then 900+ more pictures from Europe gets me feeling a little overwhelmed to say the least.

Oh man, we had a lot of fun this summer but I'm defiantly not ready to start scrapbooking all these great memories. Where to start? I finally bit the bullet and looked through all the thousands of pictures. Pretty sure it took me hours and afterwards I still needed help from Kyle to narrow it down even more. Good thing he's so helpful because I think he got rid of about 15 extra scrapbook pages....I'm not counting how many I have too do yet...I want to feel like I've at least made a small accomplishment before that number gets thrown around. So to say the least these next 5ish posts may or may not be loaded with pictures. I will try to tone it down a bit but when you have so much to work with what are you supposed to do just not share them? Deciding has never been one of my strong talents.

So to start it off...YELLOWSTONE!!! One of my most favoritest places on earth. It. it. beautiful. I was really hoping to see a bear and a moose this time and....

Meet mother moose and her little baby. So cool. We were still about 20 miles out of West Yellowstone when we saw her and we had to turn around about 3 times and finally park for about 5 minutes before I saw her. Lets just say I'm blind and thank goodness Kyle was there to be my eyes. Next time I'm going to have him find me a big male moose....cause I'm obviously not going to accomplish that on my own!

Me and Popsy hanging outside the car in a traffic jam in Yellowstone. Isn't he cute. I love my Dad! I was so excited to take my family to Yellowstone. Only my Mom had been and that was about 40 years ago so it was new to all of them.

Mammoth Hot Springs. It was so amazing to see.

Jacee, Dad, Mom, Jenae, and Kaden. They almost didn't stop here cause they were too hot from all the walking at the first stop but I'm pretty sure they didn't regret it. It was really cool to see.

Over by the East entrance there was a lot of Rangers and I knew it had to be a bear. Right after we stopped this little guy ran right in front of our car. I got a little more excited then a normal 23 year old girl would but Kyle still loves me so its all good.

Petrified Tree. I have never seen one before. I thought it was pretty cool. They said that it was a Redwood???

After Mammoth Hot Springs and our bear adventure we headed down to the "Grand Canyon of Yellowstone" and we found this guy. There were TONS of buffalo everywhere but we were seriously like 15 feet from him and he didn't even care. Probably not the smartest idea but we lived and got the picture so whatev.

Second 1/2 of the trip will be posted soon...hopefully....