Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Yellowstone

A couple weeks ago we were able to take our first family trip to Yellowstone. It was our first trip in our new trailer and was a pretty long drive but we made it without any major mis-haps and had an amazing time! We actually stayed at Hebgen Lake which is about 13 miles outside of West Yellowstone. It was a great place to stay because there was so much to do. The kids were able to fish, boat, paddle boat, canoe, catch crawdads, swim, ride bikes, and play on the beach. It was beautiful and the weather was perfect. I am hoping to make it a yearly trip. Yellowstone was a lot of fun as well but made for a long day. We spent one day driving around the park and the kids lost interests about halfway through. Luckily we were able to see Old Faithful, a bunch of hot pots, and a herd of bison before the kids got bored and started begging to go back to Hebgen.

Aidan thought it was sooo cool to drive to drive the boat.

My beautiful cheeser!

Unfortunately we didn't cach anything but he had a good time trying and looked really cute doing it. lol

Daddy and his princess hanging out on the boat while Aidan fished.

Baylee even got a chance to drive the boat.

Aidan catching his first crawdad and not to sure what to think about it. He wasn't nervous for long. lol

Baylee got to hold a crawdad too.

These bison statues are everywhere and the kids loved pointing them out. By the way......they posed themselves like this I promise. They crack me up.




In front of some of the hot pots. It was fun to walk on the trails and see tons of them!



Baylee was super excited to Old Faithful! Isn't she stinkin cute? lol


An up close view of the bison. They are a little freaky, especially this close.

This bison walked right down the road in front of us and blocked it forever.

Aidan and daddy on the canoe at Hebgen.

Baylee hanging out on the beach with my while we waited for the boys on the canoe.


We went into town for icecream one night at a cute little place calle "Buffalo Bill's" I think.

The trip wore Baylee out. This was her on the way home.

3 comments:

Jessie said...

you have the most GORGEOUS kids! looks like every one had a great time. :)

Dede said...

What a fun trip. I bet it was nice to get away.

Heather said...

Fun stuff. It is just too bad your kids aren't very photogenic. (sarcasm!)