Glaciers with Willie

I'm getting behind already but at least i can post picture of our trip.

Joe's little brother Bradford (who we like to call Willie) was here for a week so we took him to Glaciers National Park. It was amazing. I wish we could spend every day there. There are so many hikes and things to explore. we only had one day so we mostly just drove the Going to the Sun Road and saw the sights.

Lake MacDonald. 

Raging river just before Avalanche Creek.

First mountain goat sighting!

Then they were everywhere!

The view was breathtaking. Literally, i looked down the cliff we were driving on and lost my breath.

The glacier! sorry it's so bright, the sun does reflect off the ice so bad. we heard a tour guide say the glacier is receding so fast in 25 years it may be totally gone. 

we stopped several times to skip rocks. 

When we first got to this lake we walked down a very overgrown path to the water. I saw something move in the grass and immediately thought it was a snake! Then i saw another. and another. they were ground squirrels! a whole colony running into their holes to get away from us. it was hilarious. 

This is St. Mary's Lake, at the top of the Going to the Sun Road. I skipped a rock successfully for the first time in my life! it was awesome!

Spending time with this guy

My husbands family was in town last week and so i got to spend a lot of time with this guy.

Well really it's this guy, just about 15 years later. As i get to know my husbands family, i appreciate my husband even more. He's a good man. He's generous and fun. He makes me laugh. He's the best Best Friend ever. He'll be a great father to our future kids. And i hope they look just like this.

MacKenzie River Pizza

I post about food a lot, i guess it's because I like eating so much!
Joe and I went to dinner for family night last week. A local favorite is MacKenzie River Pizza Co. We hear rave reviews about it so we decided to try it out.

As you can see, it was a great pizza. We got half Hot Hawaiian (which had spicy bbq sauce, fajita chicken, jalapenos, bacon, and of course pineapple and mozzarella) wow, it blew me away.

The other half was The Athenian. I'm in love with olives and anything they come on I have to try. This had olive oil and garlic sauce, red onion, kalamata olives, spinach, tomatoes, and feta. wow it was so good!!!

Here's us being so happy on our date.






Top that pizza off with a nice cold Henry Weinhards Root beer, wow now that's dinner.

Urban Hiking

Getting to know a new town is fun. Geocaching has been a great way for us to have adventures in areas we might never have come across otherwise. This geocaching adventure we called Urban Hiking.
It was Free Bus week last week in Missoula.The Mountain Line was celebrating it's growing ridership so we decided to take a bus to find a geocache. Here's Joe waiting for the bus like a Boss.

The bus only took us as far as the terminal, and another wasn't going where we needed so we decided to hike the last mile. Walking the streets of downtown Missoula is 90 degree weather. Wahoooooo! Here's me in front of the court building. After this we stopped in the local import market to look at all the cool Asian wares. It was sweet!

We found the cache under this beautiful bridge where a cool creek was flowing. We sat here and had lunch of leftover home made pizza from the night before. A can named Lex came up and wanted to play with us, but we didn't want to play.

Posing?

Relaxing in the shade.

We found our treasure much quicker than we expected so we decided to Urban Hike ourselves home. Like I said it was 90 something degrees. I got a sunburn. But it was a wonderful free date.

Chicken Cordon Bleu

Sometimes I'm a good wife. Sometimes I make great dinners. Sometimes they look like this.

Not often, but sometimes I outdo myself.

Army Men

I needed to pick Joe up from work the other day, and while i was waiting I made this.

We keep the army men in the car for our geocaching adventures, so we always have a little something to leave in the cache if it's big enough.
Looks like a pretty good battle set up to me.

Kabobos

Sometimes it's easy to forget the simple goodness of simple foods.
At my family reunion last week my brother brought all the fixings for shish kabobs. (I have no idea if that's how you spell it but bear with me.) We had red onion, whole garlic cloves, tomatoes, jalapenos, red pepper, broccoli, mushrooms, zucchini, pork, chicken, and beef. The entire family gathered around to put their kabobs together. I learned a few stubble things about kabobs. If you put a garlic clove around your meat the flavors fuse together. Wow it's awesome. I think I hate at least 5 kabobs, whereas everyone else stopped at 1 or 2.

I made these the other night for Joe since he couldn't make it to the reunion, and i had enjoyed it so much i wanted it again. We don't have a barbecue grill so i broiled them in the oven. They were so tasty! And they best part about it is it was a guiltless meal! All veggies, little meat, and rice. I did take the teriyaki merinade and cooked it for a little sauce but it still has very little sugar in the recipe. See here. 
Try it yourself! it's awesome!