Yellerstone

Warning: picture overload yet again with this post!

Last weekend we went to Yellowstone with Kacey and Joe for a fun long weekend. We stayed in the cutest little cabin in West Yellowstone and had even more fun than we had anticipated. The weather wasn't as cold as we had feared and everything was very uncrowded so it made for a very exciting, relaxing and refreshing trip. We will definitely go back!
We spent one full day in the park, driving around and looking at neat things. We saw lots of cool animals...millions of bison (at least it seemed like millions by the end), lots of elk, cool birds and we even saw a wolf. We were too slow with the camera to get a picture of the wolf (well we got a picture of the tail) but we really did see one, which apparently is pretty rare because there's so few of them in the park. We were pretty excited when we saw him. We did not see any bears in the park but on the way home we stopped at "Bear World" in Idaho and we got our bear fix there. We also saw moose, white elk, deer, wolves and some smaller animals at Bear World. On our last afternoon we rented bikes from a little shop and rode the bikes around the town and on a cool bike trail; this turned out to be very fun and we were so glad we did it. West Yellowstone is such a cute little town. We ate SO much junk the whole trip and really just had such a great time. We would definitely recommend going up there for a weekend for anyone who needs a little getaway.

Seriously though, how cute is this cabin?

B-e-a-utiful views and I'm not even really a nature person

Old Faithful herself in all her glory

Joe and Taylor in their rival hoodies (Joe-Utah, Taylor-BYU) doing some awesome tricks with their bikes

BEAR WORLD!

Taylor was not seriously injured, nor were any animals in taking this picture

CUTEST baby bear cubs ever! I wish you could see them better in this picture. I almost couldn't walk away from them

Teenage bears

I asked Kacey how many cinnamon bears she could fit in her mouth and chew and swallow. She did 10 but I'm pretty sure she could have done more.

Awww...how cute are they?

Enjoying some delicious food at the Old Faithful Inn

Random events

This post will include a lot of randomness. I have had a few get-togethers and events with pictures I'd like to posteritize (it's ok to make up words sometimes).


We threw a baby shower for my sister-in-law Kera the other day. She is going to have a little girl in a couple of months. The shower was at Noelle's house and she made the whole thing so cute. Below are a couple of pictures from the shower.



Earlier in the day, before the shower, we (my mom, sisters and sisters-in-law) got together for one of our monthly food storage prep days. This day we made freezer jam. We made jam for hours at Heather's house and she was a great teacher. We ended up with around 100 pints of jam - DELICIOUS! We try to get together once a month for these little classes. I've missed a couple of times because I've had to work and last month I forgot to take pictures of Marilyn's gardening class. Other classes have included bread-making and canning. I may be forgetting one or two...but we've been doing it for a few months and I already feel much more prepared for whatever disaster might come our way.



Next up is the Easter egg coloring from last month. We invited Nicole, Kace, Cass and their boys over. We had some yummy pizza and then we had fun coloring the eggs (mostly the girls had fun). We weren't able to pull Osiris away from the game he was watching on TV and we barely pulled Taylor and Joe away long enough to color a couple of eggs.



The next pictures are quite old. A couple of months ago we went snowmobiling in Idaho with Taylor's dad and Megan, Jared and kids. The snow was great and we had lots of fun!






Lastly, these next pictures are also quite old. A couple/few months ago Taylor went to some UFC fights with my bros and bros-in-law so the girls decided we should get together for a very girly girls' night. Noelle had all the fixins to make sure we did lots of stuff we wouldn't do with the boys around. We made good smelling bath salts and salt scrubs. We ate LOTS of goodies and we watched a chick flick. It was a lovely girls' night in