Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Yellowstone National Park

UEA was this last week and the boys were out of school on Thursday and Friday so we decided to head to Yellowstone. It was a great trip. It was also General Conference weekend and what better place than one of the best scenic views of our Heavenly Father's creation to listen to our prophet and apostles give messages of encouragment and testimony as we drove through the park. It was so much fun to be together as a family, driving in beautiful country, watching wildlife, snow, fire, elk, buffalo, deer, mountain goats and we even saw two black bears. I hope we go again soon. Fishing the Madison River. The grandview of the waterfall that we saw from a vantage point that we had never been to before.

It was cold, the tetons were covered with clouds most of the day and then drifted with fresh snow.
Beautiful scenery to take in.
This is where you can go and see fish as the river bubbles up from Henry's Lake. Truly breathtaking...looks like a calendar photo.

In Mammoth, the elk live in the town. This is one of several that call this place home.
Here's the picture of the waterfall, without the boys in front of it.

Stetson in a Stetson. I wish we could have bought the sign to hang in his room.

Feeding the fish with the .25 fish food. The fish are 2-3 feet long...amazing.

Taking it all in. We didn't even watch movies as it was too much fun looking for the wildlife.