Yellowstone

Where to begin!  Certainly the almost 1000 pictures we took tell a story of fun, success, and awesomeness!  Now, to weed them down to something manageable!

We left on Saturday morning and made the drive to Montana to spend the weekend with Andrew and Elena.  Such a great decision!! The kids played nonstop with very little fighting or sadness.  They were in HEAVEN!  We enjoyed Church on Sunday and had a water filled at home 4th of July.  It was great!

 

We headed out for Yellowstone Tuesday morning and spent 5 awesome days camping in the park. Nobody was eaten by bears and nobody fell off any cliffs, so it was definitely a success! ;)  We came in the North entrance and by the end of the week we had pretty much covered the whole park. The kids hiked like CHAMPS and we got to see some really neat things. They slept in the cold awesomely and handled the hours of driving and traffic wonderfully.  Camping in the park was definitely convenient and was not even NEARLY as dirty and awful as I worried.  I would certainly recommend it!

We saw FOUR bears! 

 

Fishing in Yellowstone was a huge hit! We fished right on the river by our campsite and loved it--although we didn't catch anything on the river.

We did get up early one morning and drive the hour to the lake. We enjoyed breakfast on the beach and spent the morning fishing.  We caught something here--way to go Josh!  Patience pays off!

 

Iconic Yellowstone experience...stopped by Bison crossing the road. Awesome!

Lady slept amazing, and Josho lost his second tooth!!

 We climbed Uncle Toms trail--300 + steps down, 300 + steps up. The kids did AWESOME!! It was so worth the view!

The whole crew! I wish I hadn't already changed Little Miss out of her blue shirt! 

Ben fell in the fire one night. It was quick and scary.  I know there are guardian angels protecting our boy, and it's evidenced by the fact that he came out unscathed.  Our own miracle.

Luke and Luke!

 He's my favorite travel buddy!