Monday, June 1, 2009

Memorial Weekend

For the Holiday weekend we went to Jeff's parents cabin in Island Park, ID. The first day we went 4 -wheeling on two different trails and saw lots of wildlife. My parents went with us and they took pictures of our riding. The first road we took still had a lot of snow on it and we didn't make it all the way because there was a huge drift in the road. The kids loved taking a break and playing in the snow.
We also went to Yellowstone National Park. We spent most of our time walking around the trails at old faithful. We always love visiting the park.
Taylor loved getting down really close and looking at the water. It made us so nervous!
Kaylee had a hard time on the hike. She hates the smell of the geysers and whined about it the whole time. She also kept her nose plugged with her finger for the first hour and a half. When this girl gets irritated, watch out!

Grandpa Byington with Kaylee & Ryan


In front of Castle Geyser.




This is the bird that had died in the cabin over the winter. We found some weird stuff on the carpet that we knew we didn't leave there. We figured it was bird droppings and so we went to find the bird. Here it is! Jeff found it dead in the shower.




We had pretty good weather on the hike, but when the sun went behind the clouds we definitely wanted sweatshirts. The kids are wearing the adults sweatshirts to be funny. Taylor is wearing Ryan's. The Blondie on the left is my 4 year old niece Camryn. She is only 3 months older than Kaylee. She got the tall genes of the family.


3 comments:

Vicki said...

Looks like lots of fun -- I can't remember if I told you guys this before, but we have some land in Ashton that we plan to build a cabin on some day... so we will have to make sure and meet up with you guys since we are in that neck of the woods a lot too.

The Eight Family said...

Looks like a fun trip - minus the dead bird!

Stefanie said...

Let us know when you want to meet at Yellowstone sometime. That's a family trip we definately want to do in the near future!