Yellowstone..

Blades had never been to Wyoming, so we had to make a trip to Yellostone Park. The kids thought it was a park park... so when we got through the gates.. they thought it was time to get out. They didnt realize it would be a 12 hour day, stopping at sites... We had a wonderful day. There are ton's of pics.. almost an overload.. ( my computer is tired too)
stopped at a pile of snow to throw a snowball at eachother

Yellowstone Lake.. Case throwing rocks

skippin rocks.. on the yellowstone lake

Case getting some tips from dad

Cori and Blades

Camden getting some pointers from Wilford

Grandma and Case

Case taking a break

Case having fun with the rocks by the lake

You cant visit yellowstone and not pack your picnic basket.. like yogibear.. stopped for lunch

thought the reflection of the lake was amazing

good thing we didnt see any bears..

Camden and Momma

Camden and his cowboy boots..

The boys found this log and posed like this.

A beautiful park..

The boys, Grandma and Wilford.. trying really hard to stay on the path.. you can imagine sulfur smell from the steam.. yuck..

some of the thermal pools. you could see so far down into the earth..

Grandma, Camden and Cori.

Our family, with Case hiding.. or just ignoring us

Camden waiting for Old Faithful.. it was right behind his head in this picture

Old Faithful.. erupting

Case hitchin a ride on daddys back... to the car

We had looked for animals all day, and once we were leaving the park, the kids were asleep in their carseats, we saw a few of these GINORMOUS buffalo.. We didnt mention it to the kids :)

one side note: We stopped at Dairy Queen in Cody to eat some dinner after our long day. These elderly people had come in to enjoy what the Queen has to offer.. icecream that is...

All of the sudden, the stench of poop was in the whole area we were sitting. We couldnt help but blame it on the van of elderly folks and felt bad for the person who had to clean up that diaper.. People would walk in, and could smell the stench. We decided to finish our blizzards in the car and asked Case if he needed to use the potty before we rode for a few more hours. No he said. I checked his pants just making sure that that stench surely wasnt coming from my cute Case.. NO.. it was HIM... SICK!! We filled our cups with water, grabbed papertowels from the bathroom and headed outside.. out of sight from everyone.. near the dumpster. This was not an easy clean up.. It took all the wipes we had, mounds of napkins and papertowels from our picnic, and trying to clean him up as best as we could. Especially since we were in Wilfords car ( my mom had already threatened us with our lives if we embarassed her.. or messed "this" one up for her).. We threw away the nasty underoos and were on our way. We couldnt help but laugh for blaming it on those old people.. I didnt know a 3 year old could smell up a restraunt. SICK!

Great memories.. a wonderful time had by all!