Yellowstone National Park

It is hard to really show how beautiful Yellowstone is. I look at my pictures and they just really don't do it justice. It really is a beautiful great place. I liked what a park ranger said about seeing everything in the park and there is this little flower that you have to get down on your knees to see because it droops down. She said if you think about it being on your knees in a huge state park is quite a thing. Looking around you can see the beauty of God and what he has created and planned for us. We are so glad we went and so glad for my parents who planned this trip and helped make it all possible! Sure was glad we could send stuff with them in the trailer instead of having to bring it all on the plane!
I wish I could remember the names of all the things we saw but here is some of my best pictures.
This is the first buffalo of many that we saw. They are HUGE!

This river is huge and in flood stages, all the rivers and creeks are in flood stage. The park got a record snow fall this year so there is water everywhere! The fish are still trying to swim up river to spawn and so below where we are standing it was a little calmer and they were trying to swim upstream but didn't seem to be getting very far.

Camilla is trying to figure out the binoculars, she spent most of the trip with them around her neck and everytime we saw something she would put them to her eyes but never seemed to see anything!!

It was Kara's birthday the day we got there. I got her a cake and Camilla got to help her blow out the candles.:)

Looking like a tourist, sitting in front of the really cool Yellowstone Giftshop.

Waiting for Old Faithful to erupt.

There she goes! Pretty amazing the amount of water that comes out.

Old Faithful Inn

Weird stuff in a hot spring.

Ian took this through the binoculars.

Family<3

Sisters<3

We were so sad to leave, but so thankful to be there and see all the beauty of mother nature. Go visit!

Fathers Day

Camilla and I had a fatherless Fathers Day. Ian was working/training all day from 7am-8pm :( and my Dad was in Jackson Hole on their trip so it was kinda a sad day! But, it was also a good reminder of what a good Father and husband Ian is. He works so hard and so much and very rarely complains. As I've mentioned on here before our job is a really stressful and unfair job. We are at the banks mercy, so whatever they say is what we get. Still Ian has such a good attitude about it and still does a great job even though the banks don't deserve it. So thank you Ian for all you do, Camilla and I really appreciate it!
We leave for Yellowstone tomorrow night, we are flying out of Sacramento at 6AM weds so will get a motel Tuesday night. We are so excited, this will be the longest vacation we've taken since we started with out business. Plus it will be a true vacation, no computer or cell phones! One of our employees who is also Ian's good friend is taking over for us and we trust in him so hopefully everything goes good while we are gone! It will be so nice to be away from work especially for Ian. When you have 5 people working for you it just seems like he is always on the phone with one of them then throw in the 3 or 4 people who we work for and his phone is just glued to his ear all day. So I'm really glad for Ian to be able to get away from that for a few days.
I'm hoping to see all of this while we are there!

There is so much to see and I know that only having less than 5 days will not be enough time! We are so excited to go and it will be so nice to be with my sister before she leaves for Montana and Wyoming!:(
This is a christmas picture but it is cute of both of them. Especially Camilla in her undies!!

Alone

One of the biggest reasons I am so anxious to have another child is just not wanting Camilla to be an only child. I'm not a fan of that, it just seems unfair to only have one child. To be stuck with just Mom and Dad your whole childhood seems wrong to me. I watch Camilla day after day playing by herself and my heart aches and tears come. She is bored, she needs a playmate. I don't want her to grow up alone. I want her to have at least one sibling to grow up with.

I struggle daily wondering why my body is this way? Seems like everywhere I look I see pregnant women and it seems like half of my facebook friends are pregnant! Everywhere I look all I see is pregnant women and little babies! :)
5 years ago this month is when I got pregnant with Camilla. So I'm really hoping this is my lucky month!
Funny thing about all this is that Camilla thinks the way you have a baby is by taking medicine! Yeah, I'll just let her think that and save me some awkward explaining!
I have my days where I just feel like it's never going to happen and days where I have such hope but yet a cautious hope for fear of being let down. I'm thankful for the child I do have, it would be a lot harder if I didn't have any children.
Think pregnant thoughts for me! Is that weird to say? :)