Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A party, a flood, a trip, and peaches!!!

We have had ourselves a crazy couple of weeks. First of all, the party!!! We had a cousin party at our house with all my Peterson cousins. It was a ton of fun. We had dinner and played games. This was the third party we had together and we are trying to make it a more regular occurrence.

Next, the flood. Last week our basement flooded two days before we were supposed to leave on vacation. We had to rip out the carpet pad in Cody and Kenzie's rooms and part of my office, but we were able to save the carpet, thank goodness!!! We draped the carpet over tables and chairs while we were gone to dry it out. We got the carpet and pad relaid yesterday and can now move the kids back in and try to get our house back to normal!!

And now the trip!!!




We took a camping trip to Yellowstone. It was tons of fun!! This was our first big camping trip on our own. We stayed at Madison Campground inside the park. We took bike rides, long walks around the many geysers, saw an IMAX movie, saw bears and wolves at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center, and saw lots of elk and buffalo inside the park. We had a great time!

And last, but not least, the peaches. We have three peach trees in our backyard and it was time to pick them as soon as we got home from our trip. We canned them on Monday and ended up with 37 quarts and 9 pints and we still have 2 boxes of peaches left. Next up is the pears!! Yum ,yum!!!

4 comments:

Carlee Hoopes said...

How fun (except for the carpet. That is no fun! It's very sad!)! I haven't been to Yellowstone since I was like 4. Kory's never been. And I'm so jealous of your fruit!! :(

Travis & Steff said...

That sounds like fun. Don't you love year round school? Too bad we are traditional this year. I always enjoyed vacationing when nobody else was.

Anonymous said...

Looks like you guys had fun in Yellowstone. I didn't know you were still going. (That sucks about the carpet at least it didn't get ruined.)

linnellbelle said...

I LOVE Yellowstone! Just thinking about Yellowstone makes me so excited. I might just have to start planning a trip next Spring.