Grandpa Shurtliff came over to my mom's house while I was there the other day and Eli really liked his hat! The rest of the pictures speak for themselves.

LOOK AT THAT!

Yellowstone 2009- Manwaring Family Reunion We left Thursday and arrived in the afternoon to RAIN- LOTS OF RAIN then hail, then rain again. It would rain for a few minutes then stop long enough to get out chairs out and pitch our tent then it would start all over again. By dinner time it stopped enough to make a fire and cook our tin foil dinners. A Bison was in the camp area when we arrived and made its way over to our area. Here are some pictures of the bison and how close it was to our tent. Friday was a perfect day. Not too hot, not too cold and we took full advantage of it by starting the tour (7 cars) at 8am and not coming back to camp until 6pm. We saw almost all the sights and had a lot of fun with a great picnic lunch. It didn’t rain the entire day- thank goodness! We ended the day with Dutch-oven pizza and cobbler. YUM YUM!! Saturday we packed up camp and headed to Fire Hole River and Old Faithful and ended with a picnic lunch, just as it started to rain again. We saw lots of animals on the trip: Fox, Bison, Mountain goat, pelican diving in the river to get a fish, 3 grizzly bears (2 different times), raven-I don’t know if this counts as wild- life, but it is an animal, and deer. I think that is all of them? This is Ben with Ogden(nephew) feeding a chipmunk pine nuts. It was a fun trip and hope to go back soon to see more of the beautiful area and go hiking!

CARTER JAMES MURDOCK The first Sunday in June we went to Utah for Carter's baby blessing! This is my brother Dan's baby. Carter is so cute and loves to coo and talk- quite the little jabber mouth! It was fun to see them. Thanks for the fun time and awesome meal after! We were able to go swimming at the hotel...as you can see Eli really enjoyed it!

RECAP of MAY In May, Benjamin took Eli camping with his brothers and their sons! They had a blast. After the weekend when Ben was leaving for work Eli cried because he wanted to go with him! How cute! He loves to be with his dad! Happy Fathers Day Benjamin! Eli has become very independent! Most days I have to fight him or hold him down to get his clothes on, but the night this was taken he wanted to keep putting clothes on, so of course we did! One night Eli found the baby car seat in the basement and brought it upstairs. He then went and got his blanket and bink sat down, and to our surprise he was out within a few minutes! It's too bad I didn't get a picture without the blanket because you can't see how crammed his little legs are. ha ha..good times.