Island Park with the Scoffields

This last week was a busy one for us. It started by the kids going to visit Aunt Hailey and Uncle Blake in Rexburg for a couple days. Hailey has all kinds of fun pics she is supposed to send me, so when she does, I'll post them. They partied from sun-up to sun-down there. They loved every minute of it- so thanks guys!

Then on Friday Shelby and I loaded up the trailer and headed to Rexburg to pick up the kids and then we continued on to Island Park to camp with Shelby's extended family and a few friends. I didn't have my camera out very much because it poured on us the first two days we were there. Bummer! Normally we love doing outdoor things at Island Park like canoeing the river, 4-wheeler rides- floating the Box River Rapids, but this year we hid under the canopies and shivered alot. The coldest day we did load up in the truck and head for Yellowstone. I have never been to Yellowstone and neither have my kids, so we were excited. Here Wyatt and Livvy are showing off their 'maps' to all the animals we hoped to see, but didn't :). But living where we do, we see animals all the time, so we got over it.

We stopped at the Paint Pots and walked around to see the different hot pots. Wyatt thought they were really cool with the bubbly mud and pretty blue water with lots of steam.


Then we headed up to Old Faithful and had lunch and shopped a bit. Livvy was pretty excited to watch the giant fountain explode. She couldn't even turn around from watching it for a quick family picture.The sun did come out on Sunday finally. Aunt Nancy braided all of the girl's hair and they all looked so cute being the same.
Then Auntie Em planned a fun surprise for the kids in which she pretended the Sugar Plum Fairy had invaded our camp and left lots of candy hidden in the woods. The kids loved finding it. Uncle Steven helped Wyatt out quite a bit because he only wanted the candy that was hidden high up in the trees.



I love camping with Shelby's family and wished we could have stayed longer to enjoy the sunshine that came after we left- but we were headed off to the Turner Family Reunion on Monday at Downata Hot Springs and Twin Lakes.....more fun adventures to follow!