SACAJAWEA PEAK

A couple weeks ago, Brock and I hiked Sacajawea Peak in the Bridger mountains near our home. Sacajawea is the highest peak in the Bridgers and a pretty intense hike. It's 4 miles round trip with about 2,000 feet elevation gain. We started early in the morning and hiked alone up the mountain with our doggies. The terrain was pretty rocky and there were many "Jagged" switchbacks on the trail. The views were absolutely amazing and we loved every minute of it. I would do this hike again in a heartbeat!!!

This is the mountain from the road, Sacajawea is the peak on the right.

Brock, Boog & Brutus starting the switchbacks. People were pretty impressed that our little doggies made it the whole way-they love it!

The backside of the bridgers and if you look close you can see the trail & switchbacks at the bottom.

The hippies

The top of Sacajawea looking towards the ridge.

We were so excited that we saw Mountain Goats on our hike, neither of us had ever seen them before!

On the tip top of the peak there were two goats just hanging out. They didn't seem at all bugged with people being around and we were able to get some really good pictures of them. (we were close enough to them that we could have saddled them up and rode them down the mountain while calling them Sally & Harriette)

Our goats

(if you look in the background you can see the switchbacks up the mountain)

This goat came right down to us- I think that she wanted a treat out of our bag.

(Boog went ballistic and freaked them out and they ran to the other side of the peak)

We DiD a LiTtLe Of ThIs.....AnD a LiTtLe Of ThAt....

HERE'S THE SCOOP OF SOME OF THE RANDOM THINGS WE'VE DONE IN THE LAST WEEK OR TWO!

I love my garden this year, it's doing so well for a little bitty garden! The other day I pulled my very 1st carrots out of the ground! (I've never done that in my life-it was sooo fun). I also picked one of our biggest peppers and I am using it in our dinner tonight! I went swimming with my buddies to cool off from the summer heat.

Kirsten, Claire and Me

We bought a new Truck....yes, it's yellow. (I don't know why people keep asking me that- apparently most people are colored blind?)

We took Brock's new Bow our for it's first shoot.

We went on a chill FHE river float on the Maddy with our friends on their boat. ( We BBQ'd hamburgers on the float for dinner)

*Thanks for taking us out you guys!

Me, Claire & Kirsten

Brock & I

(he was being so cheesy, this is the best pic. of him)

The Madison

We also hiked to Pine creek Falls with our dogs.

Of course there was some fishing....

Brock fishing the Yellowstone River

Brock's fish

Brutus & I hiking up the river

LaVa LaKe HiKe

Brock and I hiked to Lava Lake a few weeks ago and we took our puppies with us. It's about a 6 mile round trip hike and our puppies did awesome! (Brutus was only 8 weeks at the time and super tiny, we only had to carry him the last little bit) It was a beautiful hike through the pines and along a stream. When we got to the top we threw in our fishing lines but had not luck . So far it's my favorite hike by our house.

LAVA LAKE

BABY BRUTUS
BROCK AT THE LAKE WITH HIS NEW GUN

BROCK & THE BOYS ON OUR WAY TO THE TOP

MOUNTAIN DOGGIESBRUTUS WAS EXHAUSTED BY THE END OF THE HIKE AND THIS IS HOW HE SLEPT THE LAST 1/2 HR OF THE HIKE.

Random Obsession

Here's a little tid bit about me that you might not know.....I have an obsession with paper and school supplies. There I said, it's out in the open and I'm okay to talk about it now.

Around this time of year I really get excited to see all the "Back to School" items hit the shelf. However, now that I'm not in school I really have no reason for Crayons, Pens, Paper, Binders and erasers. It really is a sick obsession, mostly sick because apparently in some freaky weird way I must miss school (I like to think that I just miss the shopping end of it). I know, I know, I'm a freak.....feel free to judge me, believe me, I'm totally judging my subconscious.

Anyway, today I went in to Target for a few household essentials and couldn't help but walk down the school supply isle 2-3 times. I kept saying to myself "you don't need it & what would you use it for", so I put down the crayons and colored pencils and walked away. In the end, as I placed my bag of random sized notebooks in the car, I felt defeated by those damn notebook gimmicks.

Bennett Island Park Party

WhY bE NorMaL? WhEN yOu Can Be A bEnnEtT!

A few weeks ago we spent a week in Island Park with my family to party around the lake. Everyone was able to make it (minus my nephew Jake who is on a mission in DR) to the party and it was lots of fun!
(Lucky us we weren't in charge of the party this time so we got to relax a lot more)!!!

Our family pic with our "Why be normal? When you can be a Bennett!" shirts.

We spent an afternoon hitting a few spots in Yellowstone, including the Firehole River to swim.

Kaitlyn, Brinlee, Ambree, Lexi & Chelsea

Playing in the river

Our cute little nieces asked Brock if they could paint his nails and he couldn't say no, so here's Brock's blue toenails. Looks pretty good eh?Who could say no to these two????

Brinlee & Lexi
Brin & Lexi with Brutus

My Dad on top of Sawtelle Mountain looking over to Henry's Lake

HENRY'S LAKE

My Mom with the wild flowers I picked for her.

Brock got to shoot his new gun on one of our 4 wheeler rides.

Crawdads that we caught-Brock and my brothers cooked them up and ate them. YUCK!!!

This is what we looked like after our wheeler ride. Pretty SEXY, Huh!

Brin after the ride, pretty classic.

Bella and Jon

Bella hated wearing her life jacket when she was on the boat. You can pretty much tell how she feels by the look on her face.

Brock up on Sawtelle overlooking Island Park.

Lexi & Nik

Me & my sister-Nette.

Ambree, Kaitlyn & Chelsea

Driving my brother's Rhino

My cute nephews

Christian, Damion & Nick

Rhino Ride

My brother Marlon and his wife Christy were in charge this year and they did so many fun things. He put together a lot of family movies and we watched them on a homemade big screen at night, it was so fun!

We had a rockn' family Party!!!