Saturday, July 24, 2010

Yellowstone Trip: Where it began!

We had the BEST family vacation we have ever had. I will be posting numerous entries of all of the fun things we did. To start things off, we stayed at my friend Becca's dad's house on the snake river in Rigby Idaho. Wow! They had 8 acres of land with the snake river in their back yard and a huge fort and zip-line (to distract kids from the river) in the front yard. It was a child's paradise and we hadn't even gone to Yellowstone yet!!

The moment we got there the kids blew the horn on the fort and started playing on the zip-line. Even TJ and I took a turn. It was awesome!! Brig took a turn with daddy (didn't get a picture of that).

I wish I could have captured the look on Kason's face when he went on the zipline for the very first time. It was pure joy!! This picture was taken after he had been on it ALOT!!

After playing around for a while we had a wiener roast.
We went on a hike through their yard, and took a rest by the canal.



Here we are with the Stillman family. They are the best! And, it made it even better that their kids are all around the same ages as our kids. We had some fun times! Can you believe Becca is having a baby in 6 weeks?! She is such a trooper!!

Hiking through the wilderness which was their back yard, crazy!!

Brig kept saying he was running through a jungle!!
Sylvie had fun on the hike too!!
Hanging out in the hammock, enjoying the peace of the river with my man!! This was my favorite spot!!
After church some of the boys got loose and decided to play around in the water that Becca's dad had used to irrigate. I had to take a picture of this! Church clothes and all!
After church we walked around the Idaho Falls temple grounds. It was spectacular!!

There is more to come...

6 comments:

summer c said...

Oh my gosh!! That looks awesome!! I'm so glad you guys had a good time! I need to come in to BC this week to drop Lucie's dance papers off. Do you want to get together? What day are you free? If I don't hear from ya i'll call you tonight.
xoxo summer

CORDERMAN FAMILY said...

Looks like a wonderful place, glad you guys had so much fun. Looking forward to more pictures.

Dad said...

Neat, neat pictures. I think that vacation will be a memory forever. What a beautiful place.

summer c said...

that first pic of lucie on her birthday post was not from having writter, it was one i edited in photoshop...thought i'd give myself some props!

M and M Madsen said...

all i can say is - HEAVEN ON EARTH!

Britney said...

Holy trip of trips! You guys did so many fun things - it looks like you guys had an awesome vacation. I like all of the cute pics - and I really want one of those hammocks in my backyard one day. The family is looking good!