Idaho

Recently Bryan's wonderful parents invited Emery, Kelci, Landry and myself to come along with them to Idaho to visit Cragen and Jenna. Everyone agreed that to take Brody and Cambree would have been tough, with so much drving, etc. So Bryan stayed back to work and take care of those two.

We had a such a great time together. For me it was something I have been wanting to do with Emery and Kelci for awhile and I was really thankful that my in-laws were willing to bring us along.

We were gone 6 days, and actually traveled around and through in some cases 6 states, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah. All of the kids did awesome in the car. Poor Kelci got a little car sick shortly after we started the drive, which was a first for any of my kids. After that little episode, she was fine. Landry handled being confined to a carseat really well. He really only got fussy when he was hungry, or when it was approaching bedtime at night. No suprises there, he does the same thing at home. I took over 300 pictures on this trip....so this is going to make choosing what post interesting, I hate decisions like this.

The highlights of our trip included:
*Spending time with Jenna and Cragen.
*Seeing how much Rexburg has grown, along with touring BYU-Idaho.
*Swimming at the hotel, this was Landry's first time, and he loved it.
*Bear World, located just outside of Rexburg, this is a great place to see A LOT of bears and other animals.
*Shopping in Idaho Falls in the middle of a crazy thunderstorm.
*Yellowstone, oh that place is amazing, Heavenly Father created some marvelous things for us to enjoy! The kids loved it.
*Touring Salt Lake Temple Square, which was a first for the girls, always beautiful.
*Last but not least, making wonderful memories with Grandma and Grandpa. They are so generous to us and just know how to make a LONG trip into a FABULOUS trip.

The Rexburg Temple was so beautiful. Jenna has a view of this right outside her apartment.

Landry pouring on his charm!

A Grizzly Bear wandering around at Bear World. I learned that there are no more Grizzly Bears living in Californa.

Feeding some bears at Bear World, these bears can actually come right up to your car, even climb on top if they want. Luckliy they just hung out on the side of the road for us, so cool.

The kids had a great time playing with Jenna and Cragen in the pool.

I just love this picture!

One of the first things we saw at Yellowstone was a large herd of buffalo crossing the street and causing caught a traffic jam doing so. This was one of the few that were still pretty close to the road by the time we drove by. If you look in the back you can see a calf laying down. These animals are so much bigger close up!

Waiting patiently for Old Faithful to do her thing. It was a little cold and windy, but of course little did we know we were actually all getting nice sunburns while sitting there...even Landry, what a bad mom. Kelci shared with us after waiting for about 40 minutes, that her patience were running out!


Here we are sitting right next to a waterfall. This was so neat, none of us have ever been so close to the brink of a waterfall, there was even a rainbow glowing right above the crashing water.

Ok, I'm not sure why, but this picture is sort of funny to me. It could be the fact that we put the stoller up on this block, or the fact that you can't even really see Landry at all, just feet. Whatever it is, the Temple sure is pretty.

It was a lot of fun to spend sometime with my girls without all the little interruptions we often have at home. Thank you again Grandma and Grandpa!