more yellowstone pics

Tim is actually sleeping deeply right now and here are a few pics from today!

TIM is Sick

Well we left Yellowstone today and after a great dinner in Wendys * a very gluton free friendly fast food joint* we drove on one of the prettiest hiways in N. A. 14 Alt through 9435 foot mountain passes to the sound and smell of Tim PUKING... poor Tim. We are in a motel for the night. he is asleep and I, Jon, spent an hour at the car wash/laudramat cleaning up from the first huge double puke. after the first one, he had a ziplock bag that he hurled into... here is a picture of Ani holding Sage Brush and a damp towel next to her nose sitting next to him. I will also put up some more pics too... We are in BUFFALOW Wyoming for the night.

Yellowstone Pics

A little more pictures,
Madeline - here is the beautfiful bracelet with your name on it - right in front of Old Faithful! We all miss you and are thinking about you!

Yellowstone Pics

Greetings all! Here we are at the internet cafe in West Yellowstone MT. The weather is beautiful, we are heading back into Yellowstone Park to do more hiking and check out some more geysers and the like. We had a great time at Old Faithful yesterday - the wait for it to pop was worth it, it must have been 100 feet or so! We also stayed at the KOA - Oh, the humanity! But Jon opted to take us to a spot with a pool, which was nice and worth it. We may steer clear of KOA's from here on. The bathrooms (at least the ladies) were chock full of people working on their makeup and hair! Ani did avail herself of 2 showers...
We've been very very close to bison, and even saw a coyote yesterday. Jon is very excited about his sighting of a lazuli bunting.
The Grand Tetons were definitely a huge highlight, so incredibly beautiful!
Well, we're on by the minute so ciao for now!

Grand Tetons

BASEBALL

Still in Haily Idaho! Went thrift store shopping this afternoon and Jon totally scored some sweet shorts and Tim grabbed a great bag while Laura found a pair of shorts, some shirts and Ani found a hat...

But the real excitement (besides Spain beating Russia 3-0 in the semi finals) was Dannies baseball game. It was the finals of the season- ie his team was ranked 2nd and made it through the playoffs to the finals... so the evil other team score 5 in the first, and tacked on 3 more in the 2nd inning to make it 8-0 in the bottom of the second inning but the game only lasts 4 innnings..... so Dannies Team scored 1 in the bottom of the second; Danny started pitching top of the 3rd and got 2 strike outs and a fly out. his team scored 5 in the bottom of the 3rd inning... Danny struck out the side in the top of the 4th... then his team scored 2 runs to make it 8-7 with Danny being up to bat; he hit a hard single to tie the game. Danny stole second. a soft single is hit and Danny rounds third and runs home to beat the tag for the game winning run!!! Too much fun! Off to Grand Teton National Park tomorrow!!! Uncle Jon has called and want to put us up at a hotel in an amusement park near Cleaveland!!! YES! Dont know when we will blog again but sometime soon! jon out

Idaho!!!

Howdy! This is Jon and we are in Haily Idaho at my cousins house! The above pics are of verious things: Tom and Paula in Hood River, Ani and Tim doing wifi with a computer and ipod touch, our dash board Monk; my favorate gas place so far- STINKER FUEL; us on a hike and Tim and Andrew after building cardboard and duck tape boats and flowting them down stream! So far no fights and we are a good deal through the Lightning Thief book on CD!!! Here is a video from the top of Quigly Ridge which is a short walk from Tim and KAtheryn Graves house.

We are lovin' it!!!

Hellooooo from beautiful, extremely hospitable Hood River, OR! No, we didn't make it too far today, but managed stops in Portland and here on this, the first day of our cross country adventure.
We had a nice visit with our friends the Robbins in Portland, though Jon and Ani have colds and can't be near Madeline. Madeline is our friend who is almost 5 and has a very rare and aggressive cancer and is being treated and has been for almost a year. Her mom Taeryn is Laura's good friend and workout partner so she and Laura snuck in a lap swim and the rest of the family did errands and played frisbee.
We found a Pho restaurant in Portland, favorite quick cheap food of gluten free people. For those who are sadly unaware, Pho is Vietnamese noodle (rice noodle) soup and we all love it.
Then it was on to the Columbia River Gorge and one short and one long waterfall hike. We did the forced march to the top of Multnomah Falls, really one of the most beautiful places on earth.
It was a totally pleasant day pretty devoid of any complaining or bickering. Yup, day 1... We'll see how we are on that front in a couple of weeks time.

Random

No words can describe this. At least I can't.

Trying to get in the habit of blogging again. Here is the best picture ever. You can tell it is about a year old as Tim's last haircut was about that long ago. Still... best picture ever...

Here is Jon recently, tending to his various injuries. If not one thing, another. There might be a reason why for Father's Day Tim gave him a t-shirt that says in huge letters "Old Guys Rule."

When not busy here this is kinda what we do.

I don't really have anything much to say except that I am looking forward to driving away and no longer being able to worry about all the loose ends I have to tie up before I go.

See you in a few weeks!

Laura

WE CAN'T WAIT!

This is Ani.

We can NOT wait to drive across the country. We have it all mapped out and everything.

Last night my friend Sophie spent the night here, and I think that I'm going to spent the night at my friend Naomi's tonight. Lots of sleepovers!!! This is a picture of me and Sophie eating dinner.

HERE IT IS!!! This is a pretty good approximation of our route accross the USA! According to AAA, it will take 59 hours and 5 minutes to drive the 3646.7 miles accross the "fat" part of the USA. I am so excited and Laura is so anxious. The Mac Laptop that Dad gave use is named "Stinky" cause for some reason it smells like body odor... BUT Stinky is coming with use. We get WiFi internet on Stinky and can download our pictures from our camera onto Stinky so we promise to blog along the way somedays!!! Each kid has a cool journal and I will buy some stick glue to paste things into the journal and force them to write everyday. It will be amazing! More soon! Jon

Jon here: Here we are after dinner being an all american family. The bird is eating chicken bones, the kids are unloading the dishwasher, the wife is reading the personal ads and the dad is sitting on his butt icing his leg. life is good!