Yellowstone 2015

For our family trip this year we ventured out to Yellowstone.  To say the least, it was so fun. We traveled up one day to Rigby, ID to stay with some family (Tanelle Allen), toured a portion of Yellowstone the next day, hit Bear Park and Jeremy's sister's wedding in Rexburg the following day, then traveling home on our final day.  It was a trip well worth taking!

YELLOWSTONE

Firehole Falls

Bison Crossing 

The colors in the hot springs were beautiful!

Prismatic Springs

Waiting for Old Faithful

There she blows!!

Taking a dip in Yellowstone Lake

It was freezing!!

On our way out, just before hitting a lightning storm, our view consisted of this... GORGEOUS!

AT BEAR PARK

A white elk.  They say there are one in six million.

Bears were everywhere!  This one had an itchy butt ;)

This one had a liking to the front of our van.  In fact, he came up to us, started licking the front of our car (bugs must have been tasty), and started scraping at our license plate!  Jeremy quickly backed up to discourage him.  Then he went to my side of the car and stood up and pawed our side mirror to say hi ha!  It was pretty exciting :)

Within seconds he ripped most of our license plate border and started to bend the plate itself.

Evidence of his muddy paws

My little 'cubs' in front of the bear cubs :)

At the petting are.  Pot belly pigs make me giggle.  

Craig insisted on doing this :)

They had a few childrens rides for the kids to go on.  Jeremy was such a good daddy and took Audrey on the train :)

Cami was so sweet too.  She went along with Craig on every ride to make sure he had lots of fun.  Craig was SO SAD when we had to leave.  I wish we could have stayed an hour longer just for him.

We also took a curator tour and fed the bears.  Most of them are black bears so we tossed lots of bread and bagels out to them.  It was pretty funny.  We were like the ice cream truck.  They knew who we were and where all the stops are! :)

CHELSEA'S AND BRANDON'S WEDDING

Later that night we got to go to Jeremy's half sister's wedding in the Rexburg temple.  These two are so special and we were so glad we could come and be a part of it!  The sealing was beautiful and loved many of the things the sealer said to them.  It was a special day.  

We also got to see little Allie and the family who adopted her.  They came all the way from Arizona just to be apart of Chelsea's wedding. So Sweet!

Congrats Chelsea and Brandon Sandal!

We were so happy to be done driving when we got home.  Audrey was impressively good for the whole trip.  A few fussy moments, but a chocolate cookie solved those problems ;)