Yellowstone

Our school still has Harvest Break which means the kids are out of school for 2 weeks so they can help in the fields.  Obviously, our kids are too small to help in the fields but we take advantage of the time off.  This year we went to Yellowstone.  The weather forecast was COLD!  The high for our trip was 43 degrees and the low was 8.  We took the camper and bundled up tight.  The first day we stopped over at Henry's Lake to fish with Grandma Lou and Bill.  The weather was too cold to fish but we had fun playing football, card games, and watching movies.

Later that day we headed to the Old Faithful Geyser.

This is us standing in front of the Yellowstone Lodge.  Rick's Great Grandpa Littleford helped build this lodge.  He told Rick that they used to have to chase the bears out by banging on the floor every morning before they could start working.

The next day we went over to Cody, Wyoming to the Wild Buffalo Bill museum.  The kids loved this and the drive over there was amazing.  On our way home we saw a Grizzly Bear with her cub and 4 big horn sheep. 

The next day we went through alot of the park.  We saw many geysers, hot pots, and saw lots of animals.  We saw 4 bull elk that were amazingly huge animals, coyotes, deer, antelope.  I spent alot of time taking pictures of them, but we will save those for another time.  We went and saw the upper and lower waterfalls and decided to hike clear down this staircase that was attached to the side of the canyon wall.  It was over 300 stairs.  I was so nervous taking the kids down there, but it was an amazing sight.  I don't know if my legs were shaking from fear or from the roaring of the falls.


We had such a fabulous time and are so blessed to have this great wonder created from God so close to our home.