Chico Hot Springs!

On Saturday we took a trip up to Chico Hot Springs just outside of livingston in paradise valley. Chico has a lodge, a bar (of course), a fantastic restaurant and the mineral pools. There is a hot smaller pool and a warm large pool - each day the water is drained and filled in fresh.

We had so much fun ...

Elsie got two new suits that we wanted to try out, here is her chocolate:


the water feels like a giant warm bath








Our neighbors, the baro's were also in Chico ...






We had a great dinner, took an evening stroll and headed to bed. The next morning we had a pre-breakfast soak

here is elsie's pink suit, with a hibiscus flower (you can see her swim diaper through the suit - it actually works) ...


uncle josh teaching elsie to swim and blow bubbles:



We had a great breakfast and headed home to get josh to the airport.

more chico photos

Montana Wedding

Last thursday we flew up to Montana for John and Karen's wedding.

here is uncle josh getting the bean ready for the big day...


here she is dressed in her fabulous sun dress from Julie and Scott:



It was a wonderful gathering complete with lots of dancing - it was pretty amazing to see my dad whip out the robot (why didn't josh or I pick up those moves).

The wedding crew (sadly amy was back in Colorado, we missed you amy!):




my mom and I did a bit of dress swapping ...


We had lots of helping hands for Elsie which was AWESOME and made us wonder why we don't live closer to my parents or convince them to move to colorado!