Vacation movies! :)

Watch them all!! i did not upload them ALL for nothing!!!lol And trust me, you will want to, there is smthing interesting in each one!! Not to mention you get a little taste of what Yellowstone was really like!!! I mean, come on!! How much better can you get?! :)

Black Opal Springs....beautiful in this whole area! :)

Beautiful HOT HOT HOT water chemical stuff!

Amazing water thing

Old Faithful!! :) (listen to everyone's reaction int he background!!)haha.
I'm pretty sure we were all mad at each other here...hence, the silence! :P

Cool...yet crazy

Even more crazier...listen to that horrible sound it was making!! I'm not gonna lie, this thing was kind of scary....:/ haha.

Another weird, creepy thing...spouting out redness!!

Listen to my mad chemistry terminology!! :) lol

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." ~Matthew 7:7-8

But remember...

"You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures." ~James 4:3

Grand Tetons!

Ohhh....soooo lovely. Even more lovely than Yellowstone. It reminded me of the Swiss Alps in Europe; a mini Swiss Alps. Man, if this sight alone was breath taking, imagine what the Alps will be like!! (Inna, Julia, Kelsey, are you ready for that!?) :) :) :)

Here, (ABOVE) we were not quite ready for this jumping picture, we weren't suppose to jump yet actually, but Kelsey messed it up...and then down me and Kirsten started....:(

This one worked out much better! :)

Me and Kirsten bought a new car for both of us to drive! Now, of course i'll be driving it for quite many years before she even gets her temps but i could not afford this nice, cool, sporty, amazing, wonderful, little, red Ferrari by myself so she was totally willing to chip in as long as she got her share!! :)

While walking around me and Kels saw this sign of this guy who was apparently "Father Elk" and we just started cracking up! How weird, right!? I mean, i've heard of "Father of the Country", or even "Mother Nature" but "Father Elk"...you've got to be kidding!! But if he truly was the "Father Elk" then me and Kesley must be his daughters..i mean, look! We fit right in!! ;)lol


And yes!! There were even little prairie dogs around!! As i'm sure you can tell from the picture they were sooooo cute!! :) There were like literally 12 running around, jumping in and out of their holes in the ground! We had a blast cracking up and watching them. I take it from Jasper's whining he enjoyed it too!! :)

Well, this was actually my quickest vacation post i think!! (yeayyy!! Be sure to leave me a note of congratulations!!)lol And there is one more to come.....and then a post w/ some movies!! Then the rest of summer pictures which mainly includes my missions trip and NYC then off to another (and final!) :( year of skool pictures!! yeayy!! :) :) :)

"You are my wittness" declares the LORD, "and my servant whom i have chosen, so that you may know and believe in me, and understand that i am He. Before me no god was formed nor will there be one after me." ~Isaiah 43:10

YELLOWSTONE!! :)

Ahhh!! sooo many pictures from this place, and i am going to try to make this a short blog post, like i always say...so, we'll see how that works. Wow, i am trying to copy some pictures on here now and i am realizing that they are just endless. I mean, there are too many pictures i'm not even sure if this post will be organized and formatted; yea, it's that bad!! :0 (but then again, when are my any of my posts ever organized and formatted!?)lol

Ok, enough stalling, let's begin, shall we?


Yellowstone was beautiful. If you are looking for a nice vacation spot, away from the beach, and palm trees, (like away from Florida for example) i highly suggest going to Yellowstone National Park. (haha-how do you like that, i was staying away from "Florida" this summer before i even knew the whole of it!!)lol If you're catching my drift (Inna&Kelsey!)... :0 haha. But anyways, Yellowstone was just an amazing place to see God's wonderful creation and His variety of taste in nature i guess you could say. Seriously, not a day passed by that i was not in awe of my Heavenly Father. :) He is amazing, and seeing His creation brings a little more perspective of what heaven might look like! (emphasis on the little!)

Here we are, the very first day driving through and we just had to stop by the gorgeous Yellowstone Lake to take pictures!! :) Lovely, lovely, lovely!

The water was freezing though! :0

FEET!! Hey, actually, i think i might make a whole blog post on feet/shoes!! I think i did that on my old blog, but obviously we can't see that anymore...but we can replace the old w/ new, right?! ;)

And here, Kelsey decided to take a surprise picture for me...not realizing that the camera was upside down!!haha! That is just like our Kelsey!! :)

Pretty view driving by

Even manged to get a picture of my parents...awww!! How sweet!! :)

Yes, there was much wildlife!! It was really neat to see, as long as it wasn't blocking the road! :)

But Yellowstone had one major downer, it smelled horrible!! Now, only certain parts of it did...like the parts where the volcano was at it's strongest and where it would be most likely to explode i'm guessing!!lol Actually, i'm not totally sure what made it smell sooo bad,(smthing to do w/ the steam!) but there is a chemical explanation to this, so rest assured! But, remember how much i payed attention in my chemistry class!? Yea, me neither!!lol ;) To tell you the truth, if you don't know much about Yellowstone i suggest googling it up or smthing, (i think i have said that before) it is quite fascinating and extraordinary to learn all the details about the park. But if you are the Tiraks, don't even bother googling it b/c you guys are the ones who informed us of some important, life changing information before our trip! :) (ex: like how the whole park lays on a massive volcano, the largest in the WORLD!!)ahhh!!

Although it smelled we are a tough bunch of Conrads. We endured it, no matter how much our noses were burning!

It was also pretty cold at times b/c of the altitude, but all the views were worth it, are they not?!

















Check out some of this color!! Sooo pretty, and breath taking! :) Who would have ever thought that God can make a massive volcano look this good!?huh!?





And check this out!! This was what they call a saphire pool i believe. It was totally amazing b/c it was flat, grey ground, then all of a sudden it dropped off into this cray hole in the the earth, filled w/ water in the most beautiful blue color i have ever seen!

It was a windy day, and hair was not cooperation w/ us! :(

It was really neat going to see Old Fatithful, although, some ppl in the crowd thought it was being UNfaithful b/c it took awhile for it to start spouting water high. In all the days spent in Yellowstone, we were at Old Faithful 3 times when it erupted but saw it go off only twice.

Loving this cute pose w/ the dog!And this, a "candid shot" haha-not too candid actually, i posed us! :) But aren't i good, it looks candid doesn't it!?lol Ok, now these pictures were from our last day at Yellowstone. And it may have been the loudest day due to what is behind us in the picture below. I have sooo many movies of Yellowstone and the loud mud puddles but i won't post them on this post...i'll make a whole other blog post....so be waiting! :)

"For the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God." ~James 1:20

♫♪You're the Devil in Disguise♪♫

Another Elvis song. And i'm pretty sure he dedicated it the the Devil's Tower National Park big rock thing in Wyoming.....on the contary, i'm actually pretty sure he didn't. But it doesn't hurt to pretend, right?

It was beautiful here though. And i was really excited to see it too b/c i had heard how neat it was from my friend Justin who took an out west trip just like us a couple summers ago. But i'm telling you....he is my man!! Well, not like that, but if i ever have any questions about things such as out west to survival tips in the bare wilderness (thankyou government class!) he would be the one i'd trust the most and ask!! :) Ha-really,he is such a handy man and just super smart w/ all those guyish manly things!! One time for example, when my dad was out of town i needed to get gas in the car and i only did it once a really long time ago...but my dad was actually helping me out alot. This is where Justin comes in....i asked him if he wouldn't mind helping me (a poor, weak, fragile girl, whose completely uneducated when it comes to cars) get gas with me. And sure enough, he was all for it!! (actually, i first asked Taras to help me...but he refused; seriously!) So one day before Jazz Band practice we had to quick rush up to the station and he expalined to me how to get the gas....and he was sooo good at it!! I mean, he even made me go in alone to the station to give the $ and say the pump number! :O He talked me through all the steps and made me feel sooo accomplished at the end!! :) And at the end, we both got a little giggle on how i gasped when the plug things popped back into it's place. :P What a girl i am!!lol But i tell you, when i find a guy to marry....i want him to be just like Justin in those areas!! ;)

Ok, enough about Justin...and NO!! I'm not crushing over him! I just felt like reminising of some good old memories.

And while were back to the vacation topic, check out this marvelous view of Devils' Tower. This is actually the first national monument. It was pushed up from the earth years ago and i want to say it has something to do w/ a volcano or something but i just can't remember.

I believe this was across from the monument. Splendid sight on both sides! :)

We were on our way driving to the monument when we saw this beatufil sight. And seeing as how i want a white horse one day...this was lovely. (inspired by LOTR!) :)

And to make it cuter, there were 2 deer right by it, a mom and it's baby.

We took a picture of this kid b/c we thought he looked Ukrainian!! :O And i'm pretty sure he saw us taking these!! ahhh! lol

Thought the above picture was funny b/c in this my mom was looking through the binocualrs (as you can tell) and it was kinda a cute pose. Then after i took the picture i realized her purple wrapped up finger sticking up and i thought it would be a good memory for future days when we look back on this trip. :)Then this one, we were just stoped in the parking lot for like 10 minutes. No body said anything, and no music was playing...it was just dead silent. It was like our parents fell asleep or something. I was pretty positive that's what happened until i spoke up and they told me they were writing out postcards.

More to come!! :)

"We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor." ~1 Corinthians 4:10