Yellowstone….

This trip to Yellowstone was one of the greatest ever.  Andy and I have been telling the kids for so long about the beauty of the park and the treasures to be found there and telling them all about the animals that you can see, and the park did not let us down.  It was amazing and perfect in every way.  It was also so fun to go with Aubrey and her kiddos and KayLee, it was just a special experience for all of us I think.  I love our family and am grateful for this experience and opportunity to go to Yellowstone, even if for just one day.

As soon as we entered the park, it was perfect, the Buffalo were blocking the road, which is exactly how you want to start any trip to Yellowstone to start. We had us girls in Aubrey's car and the boys were in our van with Andy and KayLee. The girls had a blast signing Frozen songs at the top of their lungs and the boys had fun trying to ignore us… We drove around the park for a bit making our way to Old Faithful. We stopped there to see the geyser go off, hit the gift shop, and we ate lunch at the Old Faithful Inn. The highlight at this stop were the Chinese people taking our pictures. We were laughing so hard and started making funny faces at the cameras, and finally we asked if they would be in one of our pictures!

After leaving Old Faithful we were going to head straight out of the park and into Bozeman for Grandpa Coil's 90th birthday party, but we had a minor distraction! A momma Grizz and her cub! We saw the ranger cars pulled over and they are usually only out if there is a big animal, so we knew we had to turn around and see what it was. It was so exciting and nearly brought Carlee to tears. It is so rare to see a bear in the park, I felt so lucky, and I was so happy for all of the kiddos we had with us, and I am just hoping they will always remember that moment. We spent way too much time watching the bears, but needed to leave to get to Bozeman. The party for Grandpa Coil was fabulous. It was so great for us to see all of Andy's family and his cousins that he hasn't seen in so long. After the party, we loaded up and made the rest of the drive home to Helena. We had such a wonderful weekend and trip!