Island Park

Friday the 10th, we headed to Island Park with my entire immediate family to stay at a cabin my parents rented for the week.  We got to the cabin, unpacked our vehicles and headed for West Yellowstone.  We ate dinner together at a little restaurant and then headed to the Playmill where we saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  It was a super fun show! 

The next day we packed a picnic and jumped on the four wheelers to go for a ride. 

We drove to Warm Springs and got to see some HUGE fish eating bread & cheese.  It started to rain so we jumped on the four wheelers and took off.

The trail we took back was a wee bit muddy. 

So we just let loose and got dirty.

It was by far the funnest four wheeler ride I've been on.

We stopped at almost every puddle and took pictures or video of the riders.  We were hootin' and hollerin'!!

Seriously.. so fun!

The whole clan!

My girls didn't get very muddy because they were asleep with grandma & grandpa on the razor.

That night we cleaned up and sat by the fire on the upper deck and roasted marshmallows.  Then we tried to watch Nacho Libre - one of our favorites, but we were too sleepy from a fun day and most of us fell asleep.

The next day we packed another picnic and drove to Yellowstone Park.  It was the first time I remember going there so I thought it was super exciting! 

Sitting by Firehole Falls

Standing by Old Faithful

There were tons of Buffalo.  We even got to see quite a few baby buffalo.

Grandpa, Alissa & Grandma (love this picture!)  standing by a hot spot

Sunday night everybody left but Dustin and I and our little family and mom and dad.  We went for another ride on Monday and found this field of flowers.  It was fun to let the girls pick away.

Molly

Ella

Alissa

We drove about 25 miles to .... where we got to see this beautiful spring out of the mountain.  Dustin and I are all dressed in our rain gear (thanks to dad) because we were on the four wheeler.

Dustin with his baby girls.  On the way home it POURED down rain and there was crazy thunder and even some lightening that hit near where we were.  It really freaked us all out because we were riding a trail through the trees and through massive puddles again.  We had about 5 miles left to go when it started pouring so we drove as quickly as we could to get to shelter.  It was actually really fun though, especially since we had rain gear on this time. :)

So we drove home with Dustin on Monday since he had to go back to work and did a few loads of laundry, picked up a few things we forgot and headed back on Tuesday.  Mom and Dad saw a truck come unload a bunch of fish into the river that morning so we stopped to fish.  I think my dad counted somewhere around 75 fish caught between him and my mom that day.  It was a perfect day for the kids to be fishing.

The seagulls and pelicans were going crazy over all the fish!

My sister in law Lisa came back that day too with her kids.  We took some cute cousin pictures on the dock.  They really are great friends.

Last by not least.. the girls got to hot tub almsot every day!  They got all excited anytime somebody opened the back door.   

SUCH A GREAT TIME!  We are so grateful to my parents for providing an opportunity like this for us to spend the week together.  It was so awesome to have everybody there and to just be crazy together.  I love my family and have so much fun with them.  We are so very blessed!