Thursday, August 5, 2010

Yellowstone

I've been so disappointed with people's lack of blogging lately (Facebook is NOT a good replacement for blogs people!), and then I looked at my blog and realized how long it had been since I posted. My excuse has not been FB, it's been laziness. Although I have a good excuse for the laziness. Pregnancy, an 18 month old, full time work and 5am workouts, don't leave a whole lot of energy for blogging at the end of the day.

I do want to share the photos from our Yellowstone trip a few weeks ago. Brett and I LOVE Yellowstone. LOVE it. We try to go every year, but this was the first year we went with Gwen. It wasn't the most relaxing vacation, but it was fun. Note to self for next year, don't go in July. It's too freaking hot.

We were able to stay at Brett's grandpa's cabin in Island Park, which is always a treat. It's so quiet and peaceful there, not to mention it saves us hundreds of dollars in hotel fees. We went to the park the first day and managed to get sunburned and sit in construction caused and buffalo caused traffic for a few hours. Which made us really irritable and not wanting to go back the next day. But we braved it again and were able to drive the rest of park. Gwen did pretty well. She hated the car most of the time, but didn't complain as much as she could have.


That's a grizzly right there!












Gwen was TERRIBLE during this little hike. Hence Brett's face of frustration.


This picture explains how I felt the second day. It was so damn hot I wanted to die, or kill someone.

And this picture sums up how Brett and Gwen felt about the second day.


At the end of the second day we headed back to the cabin and were greeted by 3 gorgeous horses grazing in the field across the road from the cabin. We walked over to the fence and the horses quickly came over to talk to us. They were soooo friendly, but Gwen wasn't too sure about them. By the end of their visit with us she loved them and had to wave goodbye as they walked away.



On our way home we stopped in Rexburg to visit with Brett's family. His sister and her family were in town and her oldest son was receiving the priesthood so we were able to be there for it. It was so great to catch up with them. Gwen loves her cousins!

4 comments:

Melissa said...

I agree..."People, stop neglecting your Blogs!" Pictures and kids are so much more exciting than posts on Facebook. (Truth be told I check it more than once a day, but blogs are still better.)

BLADERUNNER said...

Wow! I made it on your blog. Sweeeeeet.

Oh, and cool pics too.

Jenny said...

cute pictures!! my favorite is of gwen in her stroller.

Anna said...

great pictures!