Sorry, this is just a video for Butch's birthday coming up, for my Mom. You can ignore it or watch it, whatever is fine. She just needed it sent, and it was slightly too big to send over email. Tell me if it works, Mom.
We took a FABULOUS road trip to South Dakota on Sept 24-26th, 2011. We wanted to go on one more trip as a family before our family changed again and it got even MORE difficult to travel (with more kids). This was Johnathan's first road trip. We probably won't be flying much more at all anymore due to cost of 3-4 people now. We won't fly again until next summer (august to spokane). Anyway, we've always wanted to go see Mount Rushmore. So we finally went! 
We got the cutest little cabin in the woods in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It just had these 2 rooms. It was nice having our own kitchenette. We gave Johnathan his own queen bed, which actually worked out really well. He slept in that A LOT better than he would have in the small pack n' play. He's too big for that now. And he loved having his own big bed.
We went to Bear Country, USA which is right close to Mt. Rushmore. Lots of great tourist things to do in this area. This was one of our favorites! As the sign says, you drive through the wild animals and you have to keep your windows up and sunroof closed at all times. It was SO tempting to roll down the window briefly to get a great picture. But you couldn't. We LOVED being up close and personal with the animals.
Nate with a Bighorn Sheep staring him down.
Johnathan cruisin' through the Bear exhibit.
Big black bear! He was a huge guy.
