Isn’t it always nice to come home after a long trip away? I certainly missed my bed as well as having Isaac in his own room. My shower seemed absolutely lovely but I was reminded how grim the inside of my fridge can be. We had a relaxing day today and sat outside to watch the thunderstorm roll on by.

Here are some photo highlights from our trip.

At the beginning of our trip we stayed a few days up Odgen Canyon near Eden, UT for an extended family reunion. Playing at the beach with Isaac was probably the easiest place to watch him. There wasn’t really anywhere that he could go. The sand was too hot for him to run away and he totally preferred the water anyway. He was happy as a lark all day long.

A day at the lake is always fun. We had a boat and 2 jet skis to share with an enormous group of family but surprisingly everyone got a turn although Isaac would have loved to have multiple turns one right after the other. Once he was playing on the wave runner and figured out how to turn on the machine when know one was looking. Luckily I ran over and pulled the key out before he had time to take off. Wooo.

After being in Odgen we headed up to Ashton, ID for a reunion with just Jeremy’s family. This picture is at Mesa Falls. It’s totally gorgeous. Too bad the kids were fussy and the weather was pretty hot. We left there all feeling a bit grouchy… ya know how traveling can be.

One another day, we went to explore some caves near by, the Civil Defense Caves near Rexburg, ID. It was super fun and the kids thought it was pretty cool. Actually it was pretty cool… inside the caves. I had forgotten that small detail and had no sweatshirts for us and the kids. That is why there is a towel draped around Jeremy’s shoulders and Emma is wearing her life jacket– it’s all we had in the car. Isaac fell asleep and carrying that heavy body kept me plenty warm.

After the caves we checked out the sand dunes. Note to self… do not visit the sand dunes at 1:00 in the afternoon. Talk about a temperature change from the caves. The sand was burning our feet so we didn’t stay long but the site sure was amazing.

Our cabin was right along Henry’s Fork of the Snake River. It was a beautiful place and when there wasn’t much to do you could find us out floating the river.

One of my favorite things about the place was the sunsets. Jer and I went mountain biking one night and rode back to the house with this as our back drop. It was amazingly gorgeous. The pictures doesn’t do justice.

One of our favorite things to do in Yellowstone is go swimming at Firehole River. We were so bummed when we arrived because it was closed due to high water. We joked around about swimming anyway and risking the hefty fine. However, we opted to go up stream for a picnic and stick our feet in the river instead.

I thought this was another cute picture of Emma. The lower falls of the Yellowstone river are in the back ground. This was at the end of the day and by this time the kids were pretty sick and tired of driving around the park looking for wildlife (one of Jer’s favorite activities.) We would say “Look, Emma, an elk!” and she would reply “I already saw a bunch of elk” not bothering to look out the window. So that was the end of that. Everyone else came home with tales of seeing bears and all we saw was a bunch of unexciting elk.

Oh well, we are home safely and now I have a ton of photos to scrapbook. Yippee!