Yellowstone

Over Labor day weekend we went up to Yellowstone with Ben's family. We stayed at a rental house in Island Park. It was really nice, and it was so fun to get together with the whole family! Thursday night before we headed up we drove to Ogden and stayed with our good friends Tim, Steph, and Gracie. We had tons of fun seeing them and catching up. We used to hang out with them all the time when they lived in Vernal and since they moved, our visits are few and far between! Thanks guys for letting us stay with you!

Friday morning, before we headed up to Yellowstone, we went over to Beth's house to visit her new baby boy, Kohen. He is a doll! I was so glad I got to visit with her and see him for a few minutes!

Saturday we went into the park and spent quite a while there. We went to Old Faithful, and walked around to all the pools and geysers around there. We were driving behind this car for a while and all the sudden this guy pokes up out of his sunroof and just rode along like that taking pictures. It was cracking us up!

Misti and her kids hiked around with us all day! They were troopers!

Of course, everyone wanted to see a bear, but this is the only one we did see! Lots of buffalo and elk though!

On Sunday morning we went and found a spot and did some family pictures since it was the first time that EVERYONE was together in a long time. Amanda took pictures of each individual family, then set up her tripod and took the big group picture. I thought they turned out really cute. If you want to check out more go to http://battyfamilypictures.blogspot.com/

After the pictures everyone kind of did their own thing. Ben and I decided to go into the park again, so we went and drove to the upper and lower falls, and to the mud volcano and sulfer pots. It was a lot of fun to spend a little time with him alone. We went to Yellowstone on our honeymoon almost 5 years ago, so it was fun to go back again.

Monday we got up, cleaned up the cabin and headed home. We stopped at Jackson Hole on the way with Dale and Shannon's family, then finished the LONG drive home.