Yellowstone!

There is a wonderful family that lives by us that invited us to stay at their families cabin in Island Park just outside of west yellowstone. Unfortunately with Bryan's work and school schedule we could only go from Sunday to Monday but we had a blast anyway. So thank you to the Blad family for inviting us and I'm glad we were able to go. I had never been to yellowstone before and neither had my boys. They did so good! They really didn't complain all day.

We FINALLY got a new car so I have AC. I forgot how wonderful that is, especially when pregnant. With another little one on the way our civic wasn't going to fit us anymore so we got a van. Bryan isn't too thrilled with having a van but I've enjoyed it. We got it just a few days before the trip so it made it that much nicer to drive that far. It has a DVD player with cordless headphones. So wonderful. Blake looked so cute with the headphones I had to get a picture.
I love this picture! I told him to turn around and he was plugging his nose because of the small. Totally a canid photo. The water really smelled like sulfur but I didn't think it was too bad.

Before you freak out know this wasn't some of the boiling water this was a stream running though the area and Bryan felt it first. Ty asked if he could feel so Bryan helped him out. It looks bad but Bryan said he was a little colder then tub water right here.

Blake and the Blad boys- he loved them.

Bryan and I showing off our bellies. I'm 6 months pregnant and he is.. well... gaining a few sympathy pounds. Actually he is less then he was so I'm just teasing.

Showing us his muscles. All the water you see behind him boils up and and steams. So cool.

The upper falls behind us. This was on the steep hike down to the lower falls. I did a lot better then I thought I would. Bryan had to pull me back up the trail a bit but overall I did good. I'm glad I didn't have one of my weird fatigue episodes while I was there.

The bottom of the lower falls

The lower falls. It was a really short walk from the car and SOO worth it. We hiked to the right of the falls earlier.

I rare photo of just my hubby and me.

I love this picture.

These boys were my kids best buds. They walked around with Blake the whole day playing with them. I think it was them to made it so much fun for all of us because my boys loved them, especially Blake. It goes Sam, Mike, Blake and Ty in the picture.
We missed Old Faithful going off by minutes so we had to wait over a hour to see it go off. We bought ice cream while we waited and my boys got a little messy... but the funniest part was this Chinese couple went up to Bryan and asked what was on Blake's face and when they told him ice cream they asked to get a picture with them. They thought he was just too cute. I thought it was funny. Weird to think someone who lives on the other side of the world has a picture with my baby.

This is the tail end of Old Faithful going off.