MID SEPTEMBER

AUTUMN IN EPHRAIM CANYON

JOHN & GRANDPA BILL
SCARY LOOKING COUPLE! LOOKS LIKE A PISTOL PACKING MOMMA AND HER SIDE KICK!
GRANDPA BILL NEAR THE FAMOUS BEAR TREE
(John is worried that the tree wont last the winter, we'll check to see in the Spring, hopefully it will still be standing)

A CLOSE UP OF GRANDPA BILL AND THE TREE

(this is where grandpa saw a bear and chased it up the road on his ATV until the bear turned around and stared him down and grandpa decided it was time to take off)

Father & Son

CLOSE TO WHERE WE SAW GRANDPA'S TREE

ON OUR WAY OUT

GOING DOWN THE CANYON ROAD

THIS COW WASN'T GOING TO LET ME PASS, BUT FINALLY SHE GOT OUT OF THE WAY
(bottom of Ephraim Canyon, Ephraim City is in the background)

SEPTEMBER 2010

LAST SUMMER SPLASH WITH THE COUSINS

Draper Community Swimming Pool
Grandpa John showing the boys how to squirt the water
Collin taking a big jump

Sydney also taking the jump off the board
After swimming we went to a restaurant where we were trying to keep the kids entertained while paying the bill/They played the freezing game (who holds still the longest)

Dresden and Collin were more interested in their suckers

Logan and Sydney definitely won this one!

AFTER BEING IN THE RAIN ON OUR TRIP TO JACKSON HOLE AND YELLOWSTONE WE NEEDED TO DRY OUT THE TENT

The cousins got to have a sleep over that night in the tent

Next morning, Grandpa was still asleep.......He was a great babysitter for the kids!

Logan & Dresden love their cat, Lady

Uncle Jay helped take down the tent......oops do-overs Grandpa left the lantern hanging in the tent

Aunt Natalie jumping on the tramp with the kids

AUGUST 28th & 29th YELLOWSTONE

SECOND PART OF OUR TRIP WITH JOHN'S PARENTS

Our trip to Yellowstone was great, we enjoyed the beautiful park and awesome wild life. The one wild animal I was glad not to encounter was the bear. I thought I had made it through without having a bear in our camp, but the last night of our trip I swore there was a bear in the camp.....at least my imagination thought so. I could hear loud crunching noises just like a wild animal getting into someones cereal box, it woke me up and I froze in my cot, my heart never pounded so hard. Every time I got the courage to wake up John the noise would stop. John would fall back to sleep and then the noise would start all over again. This went on all night. John thinks the noise was a mouse.....I know it was not, mice don't make that big of a noise, but I have come to the conclusion it was either the bison, deer or maybe the very busy little squirrel who was gathering up his winter supply while we were watching him the day before. When we got home I was told by Natalie that there were only 3 bear attacks in Yellowstone this summer......that was reassuring! Glad she didn't tell me that before the trip.

THE TETONS WERE BEAUTIFUL

JENNY LAKE (ON THE WAY TO YELLOWSTONE)

JOHN CHECKING OUT THE LAKE

DONNA DOWN BY ANOTHER PART OF THE LAKE
ARRIVING AT OLD FAITHFUL
The park just opened up a new information building at Old Faithful, the building was only 4 days old.
The inside was beautiful, they had an observation window that we could look out and see Old Faithful. The weather was a little chilly that day, so it was nice to be behind closed windows in a warm environment.

NO MATTER WHAT TIME OF YEAR OLD FAITHFUL HAS A CROWD OF ADMIRERS
It was windy, rainy and cold, so the geyser was a little more foggy as it exploded out of it's hole.

PEEK-A-BOO?!! VERY FUNNY JOHN

THE CHILDREN'S EXPERIMENT ROOM IN THE NEW BUILDING
This experiment is showing the children how the geyser works


AT DUSK
We set up camp after the rain subsided for a minute, John and I left Grandpa & Grandma back at camp in their trailer while we took a ride. Funny that we did not see one animal when we first arrived in the park. Grandpa Bill was disappointed in that, but as soon as we left them we saw a bunch of wild animals. The most prominent was the bison (Buffalo) they were everywhere including the road, holding up traffic.

THE NEXT DAY

THIS WAS A MUD POT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

THE UPPER FALLS

THE LOWER FALLS, CHECK OUT THE YELLOW MOUNTAINS, HENCE THE NAME, YELLOWSTONE


ENTRANCE INTO THE PARK FROM MONTANA
We took a ride over the border into Montana for lunch

WE HAD DEER AND BISON WONDERING AROUND THE CAMPGROUND
John went for a walk and sat down on a log only a few feet away from these deer.

I THINK THIS WAS PROBABLY THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE TRIP FOR JOHN