Yellowstone- Day 4

We spent the day in the park again. We all dressed the same since we were getting some family pictures taken. Brett and Casandra have them on their camera so I post those once I get them. We got to see some waterfalls and some pretty awesome animals.

So Jayanne was super excited about seeing a bear. In fact she talked about it in her sleep that night. It was like 4:30 in the morning and she just yelled out "I see a bear!" It was pretty funny because she then went on to crying about needing her juice. It was quite the dream.

Yellowstone- Day 3

We went to the Grizzly Discovery Center in West Yelloswtone on the third day. It was pretty neat. When we got there they were testing out a bear box. We were able to see two bears come to blows over the whole thing. Everytime the bears would start to growl at each other Jayanne would start to get scared and then when they started fighting Jayanne yelled at them to stop hitting. It was pretty funny. The center was pretty neat. They have bears and wolves there right now. They even had a little playground for the kids. They have a program there that you can sign up your kids to actually go in the bear area and hide food for the bears. Micheal and McKenzie were old enough so we were able to back at the end of the day and they were able to go in there and hide for the next set of bears that were coming out. It was pretty cool and they loved it. I don't have pictures of that since we left the camera in the car.

After the Discovery Center we spent the afternoon at Hebgen Lake. We had lunch and just had a day at the lake. The girls played in the lake while some of the boys fished. It was very relaxing. Jayanne had a lot of fun playing in the water and the mud with her cousins.

Jayanne and Milly in matching swimsuits.

Fishing with Uncle Chris.

Yellowstone- Day 2

So we spent the second day in the park. I was so excited. I had been before with my family but I was super excited for this. Jayanne did pretty good spending the whole time in the carseat. We were able to put her in the front of the truck with us so she could see better and she really enjoyed that. After we spent the day in the park we went to Big Springs in Island Park just down the street from our cabin. That was probably one of the prettiest spots I have ever been to. It was absolutely gorgeous. So there will be a lot of pictures since I took a lot.

So this buffalo has personally sent 6 people to the hospital this summer. He was one angry buffalo or bubblefoe according to Jayanne.

She loved using her binoculars.

Jayanne was so excited to hold Milly's hand and walk with her.

Old Faithful

Big Springs

YELLOWSTONE- Day 1

So this past week we were able to go to Yellowstone with Brian's family and it was amazing. Since we were there for five days I will break the posts up so its not like one huge post. Anyways so we drove up and got there in time for dinner and then we went to get some ice cream. Duane had been talking about getting ice cream up there since we started planning this trip. We only were able to get it once so I felt bad that he only got the ice cream once during the whole trip but he did get some. It was really good. We stayed in Island Park Mack's Inn. We had a great cabin. Plenty of room for everyone.

Family Reunion

So this year for my family's reunion we camped up in Logan Canyon the first weekend of August. It was really fun but got extremely cold at night. It was a really pretty place. We ate really good food and just had some good old fashioned fun. We played games, went fishing, some went on hikes, and just hung out together. We even had a pie eating contest. We had a rocket launching contest and we had to make waterbottle rockets and my team totally won. Our rocket was in the air the longest, a total of 16 secs. It was pretty awesome. I don't have pictures of it though. Its on my moms camera. It was alot of fun. Thanks to Julie and Doug who planned it this year.

Jayanne was so excited to be outside all the time.

The cousins favorite part was throwing rocks into the spring that ran through our camp.

Jayanne was anything but happy about sleeping in the tent.

Fishing with grandpa.

Exploring with daddy.

Playing by the river.

The grandkids pie eating contest. Brigder won this one. Jayanne only wanted to eat the pie before the contest started but once it started she just played with the pie instead of eating it.

Sheri couldn't bend over her pregnant belly so she had to hold the pie up to her face.

Aunt Emily bought all her nieces and nephews Camp Barlett shirts. She even got one for Baby Knutson.