Our Trip to Idaho

We were so lucky this past week to take a trip up to Island Park, ID! Our dear friends the Ellis Family treated us to their lovely cabin for 5 days. We had a blast!

The Ellis Family!
Doug, Blake, Ashlyn, Samantha, Sydney and Robyn

Our first stop was to Bear World outside of Rexburg. It was way cool. Here are two Grizzly Bears playing in the water.

The Ellis' were in front of us and the Bears seemed to really like their car.

Inside Bear World they had baby bears. They were so cute.

After the kids looked at the animals and the bears there were small little Kiddie rides for them to play in. It was a perfect break for them being in the car for a few hours.

Max wasn't too sure about this big fat pig.

Blake Ellis was nice enough to carry sweet Nicholas around for us, we sure love those Ellis kids!!!

All Aboard! Max enjoying the train.

The next day after Bear world we headed to Yellowstone. That was AWESOME! Doug Ellis knows everywhere to go. He was our personal tour guide, who sometimes is nick named CLARK, from the vacation movies.

Ashlyn and Blake being typical brother and sister!!!

Raegan and Samantha

Andrew posing in front of the Fire Hole water fall.

This is a huge waterfall called Fire Hole Falls

Andrew and Max

The kids, Chad and Doug went swimming up at Firehole and had a blast. The water was freezing. There was an area that the kids jumped in and then the water whooshed them down, they had a great time.

Nicholas hanging out in his backpack on our way to Old Faithful.

The "Sydneys" were the Best of Buds... Most of the time.

Old Faithful

Tyler, Cassie (5 months prego with twins), Sydney, Max, Kalli, Andrew, Raegan, Nicholas and Chad.

The kids and Chad in front of some way cool geysers.

Blake and Tyler were like brothers, I think Blake always wanted a little brother he could torture!!!

Ashlyn, Kalli, Sam and Raegan
A much needed Ice Cream stop! Kalli loved the Huckleberry Ice Cream. She tasted Huckleberries for the first time and thought they were pretty great!

Andrew

This was a Gigantic water fall that scared me to death!! It was HUGE and FAST! I had a hard time enjoying this part because I was so nervous with the kids.

Nicholas and Sam Ellis

Max and Daddy

This huge Buffalo walked in front of our car in the middle of the park, we had to stop traffic to let him through.

Kalli and Raegan back at the cabin after Yellowstone.

Tyler on the Four Wheeler
This was the only picture I got of the kids riding the four wheelers. My camera was dropped and broke right after this picture, I was so sad. The kids rode the four wheelers every day over and over. They had a blast at the cabin. Doug also took Chad and the kids up a mountain, too a spring and then canoeing on the Snake River. I have no pictures of these things...I am sad. But I am happy I did get what I got. We had an amazing time and can't thank the Ellis family enough. It was a great way to end a long summer. Now it's back to school and back to reality.