We Miss You Grandma & Grandpa...

Hope you're feeling better Grandma!

We want to play with you! Love ya lots!

Love Madi and Kevin

Wonderful Windrivers Backpack 09

Windrivers Backpacking Trip: Memorial Day Weekend 2009

Friday night we drove to Elkhart Park, north of Pinedale, Wyo. Here we spent the night in preparation for the hike. Saturday morning we gathered and started our hike.

Here is our team; Landon and Dean Foust

Shane and Kenzie; fish un-named......

Wild man Wangsgard: Tyler

Scott Diamond and fish

Melanie Wangsgard and Adrian Diamond; doing what they do best=Smiling :)

The OLD man of the mountains: Grandpa, Dad, Keith Stratford, Jr.

First rest stop and first aid station; Mel got a few ouch es on her feet.:(

mile: 3

What we saw, beautiful lakes, trees
and

Beautiful Women..... wheres your make up Kenz???

Oh you don't need any in the mountains!

The weather was perfect. Mid 70's, light breeze and rained most nights from midnight to 2am.

Very few mosquito's, which was a blessing.

Is this really the Titanic??

How did you get this past the pack check?

After Eight miles we finally made it to camp at Junction Lake

[Who brought the Advil???]

After a good night rest [well sorta] we took a day hike up to Brooke lake.

Bolder hopping.

Landon, Adrian and Sue the wonder dog.

You might wonder why a normal, semi intelligent man would wade into a raging, 50deg, mountain stream..... well, he lost his favorite fishing lure.

[ya gotta be a fisherman to understand this]

After a long hike, a nice swim in a mountain lake feels great.

Are there any man [woman] eating trout in this lake??

Would you trust your stomach to this guy???

Scott our great fisherman.

Anyone hungry???

How about a Roasted Stocking sandwich?

Ok, this looks better.

Mushrooms anyone? Are these things eatable?

Shane will eat anything.... well almost.

How about a Hot Dog?

Well, we made it back safe and mostly sound. 25+ miles, a few sore muscle and feet, but not too bad. We had a great trip, weather was perfect and the company was great. Thanks everyone for helping to make this a great trip.

Happy Trails.

Bear Lake 2009

Introducing our 2009 Bear Lake Stratford TRIP! And what is Bear Lake with out a little boating and...

Tube Wars... The view 90% of the time!

I guess Dan ate too many cookies and sank his tube! Ha Ha

It may start out nice and easy...

But it won't stay that way long. (Sorry Ty for all the hard kicks to the chest, us girls did NOT want to go in the water!) Anything goes in tube wars... right?!

Below is Dee on top, Ty, Dad, and Shane

Notice how Dee knows when to get out of the way~ She was the only one to stay on the tube while all the boys went flying in the water. Dee tried to do a victory arm flexing and fell in all by herself.

So her victory flexing is in the water! :)

Madi, Tracen, and Tyler on the tube with big smiles!
Tyler wasn't so sure about it this time and cried the entire ride.

Our little light weight Kenz was flying all over the place on that tube, but she still held strong! Kenz even tried Wake boarding! Go Kenzie!

One of Dee's happier moments! :)

This trip was Tate's element! He loved the sand, he loved the boat, and he loved the water! What else could you ask for! He played so hard he finally crashed!

Dee and May's tube wars! I think I actually bounced off of Dee's tube and fell right into the water! Ha Ha!

After we both through each other off a few times, we made up and were friends again.

Kev just wants to ride anything with a motor!

Mom on the boat!

Our TASTY lunch Mom brought. Thanks MOM! You always have great food for us!

Poor Slater and Mav were both sick, so they left early with Britt. You men better watch out next year... Britt let you off easy this time!


Mav wasn't so sure about the boat thing.

That's more like it! That's the Mav we know and love!
The amazing Shane pulling some awesome jumps on the wake board!


We are grateful you are back to yourself again Shaner! We love you!

Thanks Mom and Dad for another amazing trip! We all had so much fun camping, boating, 4 wheeling, and of coarse EATING! We can't wait for what next year brings! We love you!

To see more pictures, I will download them onto my Face book so you can get which ever picture you want. Also, I'd love to see any other picture others might have.