We were lucky enough to see the buffalo swimming across the river. When the mommas went the little babies had to follow. The current carried some of them quite a distance downstream. In this photo, Nathan is getting nervous about the herd starting to come to his side.
Old Faithful was a priority for the boys. We have a favorite tree that we always sit under while waiting for the show.
A wonderful day...Mathew decided to try basketball this year. He has learned so much! Surprisingly, we all enjoy watching his practices and his games--they are extremely entertaining. In this video, he is wearing yellow jersey #2 and long dark pants. (You decide if he made the shot or not.)
Nathan showing off his attitude.
Mathew performs a rather wicked little ollie. Notice the snow flying off his board!
Halfway down the slope Jared rides like a squatting monkey.
This shot proves the locale--the craggy trees in the back grow on the Rigby Lake island.
Last winter Josh and I took three separate snowmobiling trips to Mesa Falls. The first trip was accidental...we had planned to go to the Rexburg bench, but a raging ground blizzard created a bit of an impass. We ended up following a huge v-nose, road-grader snowplow and about five other disappointed "outfits" right back down Poleline Road.
Mesa Falls was beautiful--deep snow and very few people on the trail. 
The next day we took Mathew with us and invited Adam, Holly and Joe, too. What a jolly good time! 
Here is a little movie of Mathew going over a jump at Kelly Canyon. Good thing we started him out wearing a helmet. Later in the day he took a few nasty tumbles. Do the terms "pretzel" and "scorpion" mean anything to you? On the last run, he was adjusting his goggles, slipped off the cat track and hugged a bush. Poor kid. At least some crazy teenagers came by while he was assessing the damages and did some 360 jumps off the same bank he went off of. I'm sure he had the best view!
And this is Micah going over the same little jump. He makes it look so easy. Truth be told, I went over the jump first so that I could take some pictures, but someone should have been taking a shot of me since I landed and rolled and crashed in an explosion of powder! I really need to work on landing...
Here's another fun one:
Christmas morning watching "The Polar Express" in 3-D.
The kids got a new engine in the old Polaris 440 aka "Bumblebee". We rode it around the yard for awhile and then took it out with the big dogs. Sad story...it exploded with a green geyser all over Mathew's snowpants. We left it on the side of the trail and towed it out at the end of the day. 
