Another Montana Summer Vacation!

Montana is known for the rocky mountains and the cold winters where the towns get blanketed in snow and ice, but for a couple months of the year you actually get some beautiful summer.  Whether it's wading in the cold rivers, or hiking in the mountains, from June to August it's actually pretty beautiful, and not nearly as hot as say, South Texas.  It's a brief period of time between the cold and slush and the end of summer forest fires that smoke out the sky, but it's a great time to visit.  Becky and the boys spent a couple weeks doing just that, and got their share of the cold Montana waters!

 Toes in the water...

And they brought along the Clayburns

Even Grandpa Bill got in on the water action...

And you can't go near Bozeman without stopping at the Museum of the Rockies. 

 

They see me rollin'... they hatin'... they trying to catch me ridin' dirty.

Crawdaddys, anyone?

And hands down, nothing is better in a Montana summer than the Western Montana Fair.  Carnival rides, sunburns, the smell of dirty animals, and of course, Tater Pigs...

There we go... if only they could have brought one home for me...