Flip flops and Carhartts

A few weekends ago, we made the trip to Montana for Uncle Woody's funeral. We drove to Rexburg, Idaho on Thursday night and stayed with my brother and sister-in-law (Darian and Cassie). Then we left at 5:00 a.m. to make the 5 1/2 hour drive to Billings. Silas slept all the way to Bozeman which was WONDERFUL!

The only bad part of the drive were the roads! We left Utah with 80 degree weather and were loving wearing our shorts and flip flops. When we hit Island Park, it was snowy and all the way to Ennis the roads were covered with a layer of snow and ice causing us to go about 50 mph the whole way! When we got to Bozeman and made a pitstop, we walked out of the car in our flip flops and shorts through the snow covered parking lot. People in the gas station were wearing their carhartt coats and coveralls and buying coffee. Luckily the rest of the drive was without snow.

Despite the sad reason for gathering, we had a great time with friends and family and Silas sure enjoyed playing with his big cousins.

Tyrel, Megan, Silas, Donavan, and Jerod

Silas and "Teebo" (That's how he says Abuelito)

Tyrel and Sawyer on the quad

Silas and Uncle Joe

King Silas

Silas and Megan

On the way back, we also ran into terrible weather! When we were about 20 miles out of Bozeman, we hit a huge storm and slowed way down. This picture is from going through Island Park. One minute it would be like this and we could hardly see through the "blizzard" then 5 minutes later it was dry roads, then 5 minutes later, tons of water on the road and an SUV flipped over on its side. We were very glad to get out of Island Park! When we got to Rexburg, we felt like we should be done with our trip and turn to go home. But Tyrel reminded me if we did that, then we would be going home to an apartment half the size of our current one, we would both be in school still, and he would be working nights. I decided I could live with 3 more hours in the car!