Friday, May 22, 2009

Takashiges take Yellowstone! (look out, Manhattan!)

Welcome to the first ever Takashige, Williams, Landrum family vacation! In a moment of insanity, us women folk thought of the brilliant idea to pack up 3 families and trek to Yellowstone for a whirlwind vacation. While i had my doubts about the traveling abilities of the youngest and oldest Takashiges, Ian and Kary both surprised me and the trip was almost painless. (We had a rough start when Kary puked all over her car seat right when we left Boise. Apparently yogurt and milk are not good companions to a carsick tummy! Luckily, supermom was prepared for all emergencies and had spare clothes to throw on her while we parked on the side of the freeway. It is amazing how quickly you can get rid of good Samaritans who pull over to make sure you are o.k. by telling them "we have a puking kid"!) But once Mary Poppins was playing on the computer, we started our adventure again! We made it to the house we rented in Cody, Wyoming where Melyssa and family were waiting. We had a fun birthday party for Papa's 60th and i managed to snag some early birthday presents for myself! The next day we wandered around Cody hunting the imaginary pastry. We learned that while there are plenty of bakeries and coffee shops in Cody, they aren't open on the weekends. Many tears were shed but we managed to cowboy-up and shop the the rest of the town dry. Ian now owns part of a gift shop when he bought his weight in jerky! The next day, we got up when the rooster crowed, (o.k., so it was Gianni who woke us up as soon as the sun was up. His snooze button is broken.) and we loaded everyone back in the car to go to Yellowstone. For some reason, no one wanted to ride with us. Maybe because every time we saw a buffalo, we'd sing the Veggie Tales Water buffalo song. Loudly. Out the window at the buffalo. Anyway, we spent a lovely day visiting Old Faithful, waterfalls, mud pits and bathrooms. lots and lots of bathrooms. When traveling with that many girls, you get to know all of the restrooms in the whole forest. I really think most of our time was spent listening to 'i gotta pee', 'I'm hungry' and 'everybody's got a waterbuffaloooooooo'. Ahh, good times. We all a wonderful time and can't wait to do it all over again, just as soon as Yellowstone has recovered from our visit!







Giannia, our tour guide through Yellowstone.

Kary and Papa











The Williams and Takashige families. I think the wildlife took some pictures of us too......




Anna, Aly, Cora and Kary in front of the stinky mud pits.




The buffalo that wanted to ride with us.




Yep, that is a big buffalo butt.






The cutest couple this side of the Mississippi




The junior park rangers saluting Yellowstone







Kary living the life of a cowgirl in Cody, Wyoming


















Anna, Aly and Kary in the best tub ever, at the awesome house we rented in Cody. Not pictured, Cora and Gianni, due to them going down the drain.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Pretty girls

Being this pretty is tiring!


Aly at a Mother/Daughter tea

Cool Kary





Happy Easter!


So, this video isn't the one i wanted to post, but now i can't get it off. sorry!!!

For some reason the one i wanted to post isn't working, so pretend that it is of the kids dancing.