6th Annual Trip to Island Park

One our favorite vacations each year is our trip up to Island Park, in Idaho. We go with our friends the Yospe's. This is our sixth year going up with them to their families cabin and each year we have gone it has gotten more and more fun! This year we took a couple days to go into Yellowstone, rode four wheelers went hiking and played games. This is a vacation that is actually relaxing. (Doesn't sound like it but we are able to do as we please.)

We saw some wildlife this year. Things we had not seen up here before. We saw a fox who had her den in the sage brush and she had four little babies. They were adorable. Then up at a place called Big Springs we saw a muskrat. They are kind of creepy looking but cute at the same time There were people next to us feeding the fish in the water some bagels and the muskrat got some and he laid on his back and ate the bagel. It was kind of cute.

" Mini Darth-Vader"

This year we got to take Hayden on the four wheelers for a long ride. There had been so much rain that most of the trails were like rivers and there were no rivers big mud puddles. So put a big garbage sack around Hayden he looked so adorable. We all laughed for a few minutes.

Lincoln, Hayden and Spider-man (aka Calder)

One of our day trips to Yellowstone we went to the Artist Pots (I think they were called that.) The boys had fun running around.

"Don't I look so awesome".

We love four wheeling. There are so many trails to explore up in Island Park. This particular part of the trail was all water. So much fun. There is something so thrilling about going through a big pile of water and mud. Except if you fall in the mud. All of us were together on a trail and our intentions were to be gone an hour or two. It turned into a four hour trip. We got twisted around, so as we were taking a trail it came to some more water which did not seem like a big deal because we had been going in and out of water all day. Brent was driving and Hay and I were on the back. I was already so tired and hurting from holding Hayden while he slept for and hour on the four wheeler that I was so ready to get back to the cabin. Brent proceeded through the water and .......yep he hit a sink hole and we all immediately fell off and in to the cold muddy (who knows what animals have been through) water. I am trying to keep Hayden above the water while my feet are stuck in the mud and Brent is try to save the four wheeler. All in all it we survived and so did the four wheeler. Once we got our the mud on the other side of the trail there was a sign that said NO ATV through here. Whoops! They should probably have the sign on both side of the trail. 45 minutes later we found our way back to the cabin.

We went for a hike in Yellowstone to a place called Fairy Falls. The funny thing to me is that I did not know their were too many hikes in Yellowstone because as a kid we were stuck in the car the whole time. This hike was fairly easy, (well for me because I did not have a Hayden on my back in a backpack.) but the end results were great. We had a such fun time as we always do. Thank you Yopse's.