That night we were all excited to see Richard's parents arrive. We had a yummy spaghetti dinner and enjoyed visiting. The next day was Isaiah's birthday and we had a great pancake breakfast.
Time for a group picture and then we had to leave. It was a quick visit but we were so glad to be able to visit the Campbell's.
After a really long drive, we arrived at Yellowstone National Park around 5:00pm. We saw lots of wildlife. Elk...
Bear...
And Bison.
Our camera started going blurry occasionally. So sorry for the quality of these next pictures. We had enough daylight to see the "Grand Canyon" of the Yellowstone. One of these years we'll have time and big enough kids to hike down there to the brink.
We arrived at Old Faithful after dark and had missed the geyser spouting by 30 minutes. It isn't really impressive at night. ;) Oh well. We arrived in Rexburg, ID really late. So we took our time the next day and the kids loved to swim in the hotel hot tub.
More driving, but we took our time and split the miles into several days. But Megan sure gets tired of that carseat! Occasionally I would have to take pity on her. She would be so happy to get out for a few minutes!
We drove to Salt Lake and visited with Grandpa Great for a while. He is now in an assisted living facility, as he has Alzheimer's and is in need of more care. He didn't recognize Richard but we were glad to see him again. His wife, Maureen, dropped by at the same time, so it was good to see her as well.
That night we stayed in Park City and Richard was able to visit with his brother, David, while he worked the night shift at a Marriott. We are so thankful to have that discount! :)
The next day (Thursday) we drove up to Sundance and had a picnic at the Aspen Grove campground. The kids had great fun playing on the old stage.
We then made a stop at Bridal Veil Falls. We had to soak up all the cool weather before returning to "ugly." If you squint you can see Becca in the middle of the lower falls. She went WAY too high for Mom's sanity.
Some nice guy offered to climb up the waterfall partially to take a picture of this crazy family. Who poses for a family picture in the middle of a waterfall? Especially with a baby? Us! That's who!
Megan and Jonny loved it! (You can see Becca making her way down.)
We headed down to Cedar City where we met up with Lynn and his family for dinner. Fun times!
As our camera was getting worse, we didn't take many pictures for the rest of the trip. And we were driving a lot. But after dinner we went on to St. George. Early the next day (Friday), Richard had me drive him out to the middle of nowhere so he could run 13.2 miles. He is training for the St. George marathon on October 1st and wanted to run on the course. So that was fun...
Then it was off to Las Vegas. We drove down the strip a bit and saw a couple of free things, like a pirate show, circus act, and the fountains at Bellagio, but really Las Vegas is not a place we like to go. Of course we went swimming at the hotel pool again. Always a hit. :)
On Saturday we drove to my good friend Lydia's house in Bagdad, AZ. They have a nice new home and we all enjoyed watching Phineas and Ferb's new movie. :) We went to church with them the next day. So weird that we are now each a mom to 5 kids. That's a bunch of kids!
After church and a yummy lunch, we made the hot drive back to Mesa. We had a wonderful trip full of memories. But it is always good to be home!
You don't even want to know how much laundry I have done.... ;)
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