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Glacier National Park

We had the best vacation ever! We loved every minute of it and wished it would have lasted forever. Jeff and I went with our friends, Michelle and Tracy Kofoed to Glacier and spent a week. We survived no showers, no flushable toilets, no electricity and an encounter with a grizzly. You heard me right! Tuesday morning I got up about 6:30 and woke up Jeff to make the trip out to the outhouse. I was just coming out and I saw Jeff and his eyes were as wide as saucers and he had his finger up to his mouth telling me to be quiet and then pointed and 25 yards or less from where I was standing was a Grizzly Bear! Oh my! It was looking right at me. It started walking towards me and Jeff hollered and it then saw Jeff and so he stopped and looked at Jeff and then turned and walked away. Oh yah! It was so cool! But a little scary. After that we didn't go to the outhouse alone. The next day we had just set up our tent and was having lunch and we had a black bear come right off the mountain and into our camp! After my experience at girls camp and now this, everyone started calling me a bear magnet. We saw numerous white tail deer, a big horn sheep, a mountain goat which crossed the road in front of us and a cow and calf moose came right behind our car in the campground and stood behind our tent for 30 minutes. Not to mention the beautiful waterfalls and mountain peaks. I would recommend everyone going to Glacier National Park. It was such a witness to me that God lives and his hand in creating such a beautiful masterpiece.

We're off to Glacier National Park

Hey everyone,
We leave Monday morning for our week long vacation to Glacier National Park. Jeff and I are going without kids! Hard to believe. This is will the first vacation we have taken alone in many years! Yeah! Look forward to some incredible pictures when we get back. Love you all

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Sparks Family Reunion 2008

Justin was in charge of our reunion this year and his vision was to go camping the way our mom and dad used to do it. We went to the Caribou Ranger Station on McCoy Creek Rd. He was very successful. We definately did "rough" camping. No running water or electricity. No cell phone service, yeah! But lot's of mosquitoes! Of course, I had my nice trailer which I was very grateful for. We battled mosquites that would bite through anything. I know we went through at least 12 cans of mosquito spray. Some of the little kids got eaten alive. We also had some challenges of our own. The fuel pump went our on our truck after we got up to camp so we had to impose on our family to help pull our trailer back to Blackfoot and then had Kennon come up with a truck and trailer and haul our truck back home. It ended up being very expensive.

But we really enjoyed shooting trap and watching everyone jump off the bridge at Palisades Reservoir. This definately will be a reunion that will be remembered! But all in all it was great to spend time together as a family. Thanks everyone for your efforts to come and recognizing the importance of family! I love you all!!