Growing Telanders: Montana -- May 7-11

We had been planning and hoping to make it to Montana to visit with family for Memorial Day this year, but we ended up going earlier. Granny Z passed away on May 2, in her room at the Livingston Health and Rehabilitation Center. The funeral was in Livinston on May 8, and we drove up the day before after Andrew finished with work.

There were a lot of pansies, her favorite flower. We were so sorry to have missed her.

It was nice to see Grandpa Van, Christina, Ned, Cindy, Caity, and Eric (although he had to rush back to school for finals week). Ned facilitated an opportunity for Hazel to see the baby cows up close, and she asked Christina to do her hair and refused to let me put her ponytail in. Vivian had a rough time, she was teething and had a fever. Cindy ran down to Clyde Park for us one evening so that we could give her some baby Tylenol, which totally turned her mood around. It rained a lot, but we did make it out for a walk on the hill behind the house.

We left on Sunday morning, and we should have been home at a fairly reasonable hour, except that there was a snow storm and most of the roads closed. We stopped in Casper with our friends Mike and Sherril, and they fed us supper and let us use their computer to check the roads. We ended up taking a back way into Laramie that was open against the odds, and after crawling, going about 30 mph, driving about 2 more hours than we had intended, we made it back to Laramie. The roads were all closed by the time we got home, including the one we had been on.
This is what the view out the back door looked like the next morning: