A few weeks ago we were able to spend a few days with my family from North Dakota. They made the long two day drive with 10 people which included two one year olds.

We rented a fabulous cabin in Island Park for the first part of their trip. It was seriously amazing! We were living it up in style and luxury.

There was a fun swing on the porch for the little darlings to enjoy. It was well used.

We saw this baby buffalo every morning in the same spot when we were driving into West Yellowstone.

Poor little guy was all alone.

We spent one day touring Yellowstone National Park.

We saw lots of buffalo and deer, one coyote and a few cranes.

While my family was driving through the park on the way from North Dakota they saw quite a few bears. Including a mom with two cubs but they were no where to be found when we went the next day.

This is the only picture I got of our group.

It was Uncle Scott and Aunt Jackie

Shari and Greg with Bristol

RaeAnn and Addi

Kelly and Brennan plus their baby bump

and last but not least

Lisa
....and Sam of course.

The stink pots...they are stinky!

Random...

I've always wanted to take a pic like that.

I found these fun shirts that the boys could color when my fam and I went shopping in West Yellowstone.

That was so much fun!

I think we bought every hucklberry flavored item there was.

Including all the huckleberry bark at the candy store....whoops.

We also had to check out all the fly shops in town so we could get in on the rage.

A girls always gotta be on top of the latest and greatest.

Karter's big ole happy face in this pic pretty much sums up how Karl, I and the kiddos felt about our mini vacation with our family.

We LoVeD it.
Karter and Hudson adored the "two purdy little girdles(girls)".

The first night we were there I was laying Karter and Hudson down for bed and Hudson said

"Mom, can we go get a baby tomorrow?"

(I so wish you could all hear how Hudson says tomorrow)

Seriously...it was so cute!
My brothers and I have made lots of trips to North Dakota over the years so that we could spend the summers with our family.

It was so fun for us to be able to show them where we live and to spend some one on one time with them.

It's also nice for them to understand how looooooooong that drive really is.

I do believe I have the best grandparents on the planet for being willing to make that trip multiple times a year for us.

Thanks Grams and Grandpa!