Stapleton Yellowstone Trip

This past week we had a Stapleton Family Reunion/Vacation to Island Park and Yellowstone (Thanks Grandpa and Macha Stapleton). We all stayed in a cabin and activities included: Yellowstone, Mesa Falls (above), golfing, fishing, and most of all, playing with cousins.

This is the start of one of the tributaries of the Snake River. It's a spring that bubbles up and turns into a river right in front of your eyes. The water was crystal clear. This was possibly the most picturesque place we saw.

There were a lot of cousins and second-cousins to play with.

The "triplets". This is the boys' cousin Sophia. They are all the same height and people will ask if they're triplets.

Yellowstone hot springs

Waiting for Old Faithful

I wish my camera was better, but this is a grizzly bear that was off the side of the road and she had three cubs with her. I thought it was by far the coolest wildlife we saw.

Yellowstone Falls

Preschool

The boys started preschool on Tuesday and were very excited about it. There going just around the corner to a lady who does it out of her basement. There teachers were worried about telling them apart, so we're going to use name tags for awhile and the boys thought that their masking tape name tags were awesome.

Siblings Trip

Mark, Jimmy and I had our first Siblings Weekend retreat last week. Jim and I flew to Milwaukee to visit Mark. We went to the lakefront,

riverwalk (this is the bronz Fonz),

The Dells (a tourist trap of a city where the Wisconsin river has been dammed along a gorge, where we went to a waterpark and amusement park,

and toured the med school.