uncle taffy

uncle taffy (kk's husband) has been on a personal mission to make it from florida to washington either by foot, raft, or bike since this spring.  he finally made it to idaho and we have been lucky enough to spend some time with him this last week! 3 separate days to be exact! it's not hard to see that taft is a family favorite.  he seriously plays with the kids for hours and they love it!  

one of the days he was here we were able to go swimming.  he and bry did tricks all day in the pool.

 we went for a bike ride one day but didn't have enough bikes for everyone.  taft decided he would just take the swivel car, haha.

he and rhett traded off a couple times.  i think they are both just kids trapped in a mans body.  haha.  we are never lacking in entertainment. 

i love it when we get to spend some time with taft.  it always makes me feel a little closer to kayla when he is around and also, he just makes everyone happy.

that time i pretended to be a photographer

  last saturday night we rushed down to logan so we could spend a little time with my family.  everybody was gathered so we could see sweet oakley get blessed on sunday.  it was as usual too fast, but of course so fun.

sunday morning i asked brikelle if i could follow her around and take pictures of them while they got oakley ready for her blessing.  it's kind of a secret how much i love my camera, but i'll take any chance i can get to play with it!  i am for sure not a photographer but i have to say it was sooooo much fun taking pictures of oakley.  she is seriously the happiest, sweetest baby i've ever met! which made every single picture of her turn out so perfect.  

seriously, are they not the cutest family ever?! i'm so proud of dustin and brik and what awesome 

parents they are.  sunday was such a special day and it was so neat to see oakley be blessed by her dad.  i live for days like this with my family.  

island park fun

 after yellowstone and some dinner we decided to head out and play a little more!

luckily these bikes are electric, that made me feel a little better with tacey on the back of one.

and that jack sure is a ladies man, look how cute he is.

 i'm wishing we would have gone swimming a little earlier in the day, because i think it would have made the water a little less shockingly cold.  rhett and some of the kids really didn't seem to mind too much though.

the boys

that pretty much wraps up our little getaway.  it of course went by way too quickly.  glad we were able to spend some time with these great friends and also get some quality family time in. 

yellowstone

friday evening our longtime friends showed up at the cabin! it had been over a year since we saw them last so we were all so happy and excited!

saturday morning we woke up bright and early (like 6:30am) to head to yellowstone.  did you know fourth graders can get their entire family in for free?!  not that yellowstone costs a ton of money but we were all happy about being able to get in for free!

 how cute are these girls?! kara and i decided they are definitely in the preteen stage.  it's pretty fun to watch these girls hang out.  especially since i can clearly remember them hanging out together as babies.

annie!!  i was tempted to steal her and bring her home with me.

the kids got sooo close to the elk.  i wasn't sure about it especially since i could hear some of the other tourist say how people were morons for getting that close.  but rhett and james assured us that the elk wouldn't harm anyone more than a horse would.  

we watched a little romance blossom throughout the weekend.  it was the cutest, funniest thing i've ever seen.

 old faithful was our last stop of the day.  apparently we showed up right after it had gone off and it was supposed to be 90 minutes before it went off again.  we ate some ice cream and kind of just let the kids run around and play.  finally old faithful went off and before it was even finished the men were rushing us out to the car so we wouldn't have to wait in traffic.  i was laughing so hard.  did we seriously just wait 90 minutes for old faithful and not even really watch it?  haha.  

yellowstone was so much.  being with the eatons made it even more fun!

mini family vacay

thursday night we loaded up the car and headed to island park for a little family getaway.  friday was such a fun day.  we rode the rzr all day long all over island park and the mountains.  

this was one of our first stops.  the fish were hiding under the bridge so riggins decided to lay on his stomach so he could get a better view of them.  pretty soon every single person on the bridge was copying him.  it was hilarious.

can you see how dirty we are.  we all had the thickest layer of dirt all over our entire bodies.

can you spot rhett?

 later that evening we pulled out some borrowed jet skis and took them out on the lake.  it was so super windy and the water was COLD!  the kids really hated jet skiing, until i let tacey drive at the very end.  now she is hooked and keeps begging for us to take her out again.  riggs and bry have no desire to go again.  haha.