Yellowstone- July, 2020

Yellowstone is an enchanting place. In the park, you are surrounded by lush trees, beautiful mountains, roaming wildlife, wide open spaces, pounding waterfalls, and steaming, multicolored hot pools as far as the eye can see. I wonder what the very first explorers thought when they came upon this amazing place. I imagine it felt like they stepped onto another planet and could hardly believe their eyes. God's creation is truly a site to behold.

Tyler has talked about visiting Yellowstone ever sense we moved out West. We've spent months falling asleep to Yellowstone documentaries and we both were very eager to visit. So one night, we decided to just sit down and plan it. We were able to spend two full days exploring Yellowstone and we loved every minute of it!

The boys were excited:)

One of our first views was a herd of elk!

Thaddeus enjoyed looking at different hot pools.

Zak was always so excited to explore.

 Malachi enjoyed looking at the hot pools and said that the 

smell made him want boiled eggs. Haha!
This kid thinks about food nonstop!

Jacob and I were standing by one of the waterfalls in the park.

He is growing up so much.... slow down!!

 Yellowstone Falls.

Another awesome waterfall.

My boys <3

 The elk were so cool looking!

Two more just chilling in the shade.

We saw a black bear!! My first bear ever... so cool!

So many things to look at.

 Tyler couldn't wait to see the Grand Prismatic Pool.

How pretty is that?!!

 Old Faithful!! We waited about an hour to see it explode.

Worth it.

When Old Faithful finally erupted, everyone became so quiet.

So crazy looking!

This was called Artist Paintpots. It was basically bubbling mud.
So bizarre. It made a plopping, almost burp like sound.

 The Abyss Pool is my favorite shade of blue.

Pictures do not do it justice!

The boys with a bison in the background... Thaddeus was always

on the lookout for bison. They are huge animals!

Thaddeus bought "Buff" the bison to explore with! :)

My main squeeze <3

We saw a Mama Grizzly bear and her cub.

If you look closely, you can see a grizzly bear cub climbing

a tree!  Score!!!

 We had no idea when we moved here that God would work everything out to move my parents, too! I feel very blessed to have them just minutes from our house.

We always found a beautiful spot to have a picnic in Yellowstone!

 The Yellowstone Lake was so clear and you could see

big trout swimming around!

 Brotherly love and happy faces :)

 Tyler is always pushing the limits to get a good picture.

My favorite thing to do was look for animals. Yellowstone

has lots of vast areas to search for wildlife. 

The herds of bison were endless.

This hot pool looked like Minnie Mouse.

 Excelsior Crater was a favorite of ours. So crazy cool!

 We had so much fun exploring.

We saw the Grand Tetons on our way home!

 Pretty view over the lake.

 Lots of photo ops!

The Grand Tetons. 

We have some new stickers on our van and lots of great new memories to look back on. 

Until our next adventure...