Pioneer Day 

Started the morning off with the Desert News 10k, I ran with my brother Jesse, and some other Wade's Jon and Shannon!! Shannon threw out the invite and I'm so glad she did! It was a lot of fun and I have been wanting to run it, and I needed something to keep me moven!!! 

 me::Jesse::Jon::Shannon::and cute baby Asha

We finished in about 57 min.!! My pace was about 9:21, I was pretty happy with that!!! It was a very fun course!

after the race we watched the parade with Shannon and her cute kids, Brian and cute Aunt Faye! It was lots of fun!!!

after the parade, we went home for a nap! I was beat,... then we went to the Bevans for the annual Pioneer Day water fight!!

My camera died, so this was the only pic I got from it..

Uncle Craig in the dunk tank in his church suit!

wrong kinda suit Craig,... always good for a laugh, that guy!

Had a great holiday! Its one of my faves!!!

What a beautiful place! 

We took our annual Island park trip and had loads of fun!

Thursday morning we wandered into West Yellowstone and did some sight seeing

Our first stop was the Fountain Paint Pots

then we drove the Firehole Lake loop and saw this peerrty waterfall

 later that day we went and waded in the Buffalo and did some fishing

the kids caught minnows and skipped some rocks.. 

and Syd caught her first fish

way to go Sydney!

dad caught a bird! sad :(

The Next day. 

 ::Friday::

We went and floated the Big Springs river

The boys LOVE to paddle

we had fun doing some kayaking this year

we pulled over for a quick lunch break and the kids played in the shallow water

Trying to get a nice family photo, Reese being herself, she's going through this awesome phase of throwing fits and screaming... happened too regularly on this trip

and her 30 seconds later... just as fine as could be... crazy girl!

The boys skipping rocks

camp fire at night

::Saturday::

We drove into West Yellowstone again, we were going to spend some more time on the river but it was raining, so plan B worked out great too!!

First Stop

Gibbon Falls

Then Artist Paintpots

Thanks Uncle Matt ;)

The whole clan, minus pregnant Kara who happily volunteered to take the picture

cutest cousins

Reese - Woodrow - Avery

The drive to Mammoth Hot Springs

Parker being cute with Reesey... 

She was uuhm a little difficult I guess you could say, about 40-50% of the time, the sleepless nights and no naps were not doing her any favors... 

she has good brothers and luckily  is loved by all cause the screaming and the tears were not cool or fun..... at all

This "Dangerous Ground" sign is everywhere, warning you not to step off the path, or else you'll end up like this boy in the picture, you can't see the part of the picture of the boys mother pointing and screaming too, we thought the picture a bit harsh, but I guess it could be a harsh reality if you step into the boiling water! I told the kids to copy the face of the poor boiling boy~

we had a grand ol' time in Island Park

and Yellowstone!

Did lots of fun stuff...

and saw a MOOSE! Deer, Elk, Bison, Bald Eagles, and other cool stuff!