Monday, June 30, 2008

The Attack of the Bison!!!



Well... that title may have been just a bit dramatic. But as you can see, here we are sitting at our camp, we had just come home from a day of exploring and we look up and there are 4 huge Bison coming right through our camp!That redish tent is my tent, you can see the Bison came right through there. One actually came between these two tents more towards the table we were sitting at!Yea, this guy came between the tents. Here we are blurry people, evacuating our camp.
When they got to the road these two started butting heads and fighting... that was a little scary. This one below even rolled in the dirt a few times!

Other years Bison have walked through our camp, the only time it was really scary was the year after my sister Gentry had her Aneurism. She was walking slowly with a 3 pronged cane and she and I started to go for a walk. We only made it to the edge of our camp when my parents where hollering to us. We looked up just in time to see this HUGE bison coming through the trees. When he saw us he stopped right in front of us, seriously 3 feet away, and blocking our way back to camp. He stood there and stared at us for what seemed like FOREVER. We just stood still, my head was racing though, I know you are not supposed to run but I didn't know how I would get Gentry out of there if he moved towards us. He kept looking at us and then up the hill, finally he decided to go up the hill! And we slowly moved back to camp.
This time was just fun to watch them come through!

The Whole Bunch of Us

My family goes on vacation every year to Yellowstone. My parents have suggested going somewhere else but we all insist we want to go to Yellowstone again. We just have so much fun there. This year the Cockayne Family came with us. My girls sure had a lot of fun with all of these FUN people to play with!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

All Aboard! Last Stop Silverton, Colorado








Here's the last installment of our Colorado trip. We took this amazinging train trip from Durango, Colorado to Silverton, Colorado. First we had to take a shuttle for the hour long trip to Durgango from Pagosa Springs. We left early in the morning, and as you know Ayla is not a morning person and this was out of her element anyway so she was really upset about riding on the shuttle. She was really nervous, she had me hold both of her hands and then she fell asleep which lasted most of the shuttle ride. Tayvie did great, we got to hold her on our laps, and she got to nurse whenever she wanted, so she was happy as could be.

Once we got to Durango at the train station Ayla was just as nervous to ride the train. About 20 minutes into it she was fine and had no more worries. This is one of her favorite things to talk about now, how we rode the "doodlebus" (which was the shuttle) and the train.

The train ride was gorgeous, we followed the river up the mountain to Silverton, an old mining town. Along the way there were points, as you can see in the pictures, where we were right next to the mountain on one side and a drop off cliff to the river on the otherside. The ride was about 3 1/2 hours long and when we got to Silverton we had lunch and stopped in a few stores and then took the shuttle back to Pagosa Springs.

So now we're caught up on our Colorado trip. Early tomorrow morning we will leave for Yellowstone!

Treasure Falls







This is still in Colorado, we went on this hike to Treasure Falls. It was beautiful! I love this last picture it reminds me of Elf . The family picture is great too, isn't it? I have since aquired a tripod and Ayla has since taken a nap!

Monday, June 23, 2008

Ayla the Horse Whisperer


The second day that we were in Colorado we actually left Colorado and went to Chama, New Mexico where Tony's Uncle Jesse has a ranch.



This horses name was Custard. Ayz was a little afraid to get on him at first, but after watching her cousins do it she gave it a try. As soon as she got on she started telling me that her "shoesies" needed to be in the stirrups! She was also sayign "Yee Haw!" How does she know these things?

She LOVED feeding the horsies! She would feed one horse for a minute and then go down the fence to the next horse. She had to be fair and feed each of them.


See Tony and I rode horses too! Look at the background in some of these pictures! How would you like waking up to that each morning? What a life! Such a beautiful place!

Pagosa Springs Mini Golf



Nice Defensive play above... and below she lines up the shot... puts... and misses! Oh well nice try!