In 6 days we will be off to Glacier National Park. Everyone is excited and ready for some family time, as well as some downtime. This will be the kids' first time to Glacier, we are anxious to share it with them. We will spend 4 nights camping, and plan on doing lots of hiking, biking, exploring, knitting, reading, napping, snacking, snuggling, talking and whatever else comes our way.
You may be wondering, are we ready for this trip? Have we made the lists, checked them twice, planned meals, shopping trips, charged batteries, etc? Well, of course....not. The family planner and organizing extraordinairre is running a bit behind on things. Yes, Yes, I will get it together. Maybe tomorrow. Or the day after. Possibly the night before. Heck, I don't know.
My Mom is doing well since her surgery. Well, as well as can be expected when you have to wear a big uncomfortable neck brace for 6 weeks straight and do much. We see the Doctor Thursday and are hoping she is on track as far as recovering.
I'm on day 6 of an 8 day stretch at work, but things should quiet down now that we made it through inventory! It's always such a relief. I also survived an audit last week that turned out great (for me, anyway), so I'm home free for the rest of summer! No worrying about things during my vacations. Paco and the kids went to church without me yesterday, and he has been great about doing fun stuff with them everyday while I'm working. He's great at that all the time anyway. Such a fun daddy!
For tonight, we are enjoying a cool, rainy gloomy evening. I'm snacking on veggies, chips and homemade garlic hummus. Wow, we are loving homemade hummus! Its delicious and so healthy! Check out this yummy stuff...
For the kids I'm making grilled cheese sandwiches, strawberries, cucumbers and cheese puffs. Nothing too fancy, but easy enough on Mom!
Not to mention our roof carrier and 3 more bikes on the back of the van! We just barely had room for these two:
We stopped in St. Regis for breakfast at the Huckleberry patch. Quite possibly the best food we have ever had! YUM! We also checked out a funky little antiques shop...they had some neat stuff! 
Then it was off for the last stretch of our trip to the Park. There are plenty of interesting things to see on the way there...like this...
which is also where we took these great pictures...
Finally, around 1:30, we arrived at the west entrance of Glacier National Park..
We got to Fish Creek campground and started setting things up. Our site was literally right on the creek...what a great sound to listen to at bedtime! 
We finished out the day with dinner, a campfire and heading over to the Park Ranger program. All in all, day one was very busy!!
who so generously took on my 2 children ( along with her 3), this morning so I could take my Mom to the neurologist, and then after that for an unscheduled ultrasound. It was so much easier than trying to keep them busy, quiet, and occuppied! Thank you Amy, I owe you! If you happen to run into Amy, be a dear and take her kids for the afternoon, she needs a break!
but not as nicely as Amy's, who's tricks of early planting and magical bunny poop seem to be working fabulously. 
