Glacier National Park, Montana

Here are some more photos from our trip. These ones are all during our family reunion at Glacier Park. We did a lot of hiking, and it was beautiful!

Several of us went on a long hike one of the last days we were there. My brother John packed his daughter the entire way. What a stud!

You can see lots of mountain goats if you hike in the right places.

Alberta

OK, so I promised a few photos from my vacation in July. I'm just going to do the part where we were in southern Alberta right now. My mom grew up in Cardston, Alberta so I grew up going to many of these places and they hold a special spot in my heart!

These photos are of the one-room Chief Mountain School house, where my grandma was the the teacher for a little while-- probably in the late 1930's.

Here I am at the top of Bear's Hump in Waterton park.

One of the few remaining old style grain elevators in the area.

Adam hiking up Red Rock Canyon in Waterton.

If you want to see more and are friends with me on Facebook, Adam posted a ton of photos for me on my profile!

Crazy Summer

Well, it's been a crazy summer. In mid-June my co-advisor Craig got seriously ill and was admitted to the hospital. He had an infection called necrotizing fasciitis. He lost his left leg to right above the knee and nearly died. Luckily, he has pulled through the worst of it and is on his way to recovery. His only immediate family are his sister and parents who live in Toronto. Since we are quite close and I live near him, I have been doing a lot of the "family" type work that needs to be done when someone is taken suddenly away from their normal life and ends up hospitalized like that--plus there are still months of recovery ahead. Needless to say, it has been a bit of an emotional roller-coaster and at times physically and/or emotionally exhausting. That in combination with the fact that I just don't seem to know what to blog about can explain my long absence from posting. However, I did get away to take a fun trip with my family where we visited southern Alberta and then swung down to Glacier National Park in Montana. I have some fun photos and will try to post some of those later, but for now I have to finish up some lab work and then go home and get ready to fly to Phoenix where Adam's brother is getting married on Friday. Yea for Seth and Janette!