Big Weekend!

We had a big weekend around here! On Saturday my sister-in-law graduated, with highest honors in two majors from Montana State University. It is/was a very big deal! We are so proud of her and her accomplishment. She's young and energetic, and managed to do this accomplishment while single parenting most of the time - until she married my brother last spring.

This is Stacy celebrating with her daughter and my son after the third ceremony she went through.
And, then with her sweet heart - my wonderful brother! He is so proud of her, I can't even tell you. They joined us for a celebration dinner at our house, and then were up early on Sunday and off to California for a trip to the Magic Kingdom!

Then, for Mother's Day we did our traditional trip into Yellowstone Park. It was a cloudy and wet day, but we had a nice time.

For the first time ever we saw a black bear in the park. Not the best photo ever, but it gives you an idea:
Didn't see any griz this trip (did see two last year when we went to a different part of the park). It was just the three of us this year, and we took our time looking around and seeing lots of fun things.
I'm not all that pleased with this photo of me, but I have to say, the angelic look on Jansse's face makes me happy! We were at Artist Paint Pots for this one, one of the places we got out and walked around.

We did see the typical elk and bison, but we also got an array of birds this trip.

This White Pelican is the first one we've seen this close up. He is in the Fire Hole river, which is one Jansse especially loves because he has fished there with his grandpa and papa.