We Love when family comes to visit! (Picture Heavy!)

Joe's brother Mason and his wife Sarah came up to visit us for 4 days last week, along with their little sister Madison. We had lots of fun with them while they were here!

Wednesday we took them to the Idaho Falls Temple Visitors center, walked around the Greenbelt so that they could see the Falls, we made a stop at the big Indian Head in Idaho Falls for a pictures, then it was home for some lunch, we then took them to Fat Cats for bowling, pizza, mini golf and some arcade games, and then it was off to the DI in Rexburg. (Can't pass up going to the DI when it is right there!)

We also played a game outside and watched Mason and Sarah play Dance Central and a couple other Kinect games before bed!

Checking out the falls, and the temple!
Thursday we headed down to Arco to see EBR-I the first Nuclear Plant and then it was off to Craters of the Moon. June 9, 2011 and we were all wearing coats because it was so cold. We have never experienced the cold at Craters before, usually when we go we are all dying of the heat! We did get rained on, but all in all I think everyone had a good time!

Playing with the manipulators at EBR-I!

Craters Of the Moon

If you look closely at this picture you can see a face, creepy!

On the way down to Craters of the Moon we saw some prong horn deer and on the way home we caught this picture:

Isn't it beautiful?! I think a rainbow is just one of the sign that Heavenly Father sends to show us that he loves us!

Before we left the house I asked Joe if he wanted to fill his camel pack up with water for the hiking at Craters of the Moon, so now Jena thinks there are camels there. She was really disappointed when we were almost there and she asked if we were going to ride camels and I told her there weren't any camels there!

Jena riding her Camel down the path!

We like to look for licence plates when we go places, here is a list of the ones we saw while traveling to and from Craters of the Moon:

Florida

Texas
Idaho

Utah
Oregon

California

Washington

Montana

Ohio

Illinois

New York (this was a hippy bus)

Alberta Canada

Michigan

Arizona

Nevada

Colorado

US Government.

When we got back we had some dinner and then roasted marshmallows and made s'mores!

Friday we were off to see Mesa Falls, Big Springs, and Yellowstone! The weather was much better on Friday then it was on Thursday, we were so glad to see the sunshine, but we still had to wear jackets in Yellowstone!

Mesa Falls

I need to crop and photo shop this picture, but I think it turned out great for using the timer!

We were disappointed at Big Springs, none of the trout were out and the Johnny Sacks Cabin doesn't open until the 4Th of July.

Yellowstone!

Love Jena's face in this picture, she had fallen asleep on the way to Old Faithful and she wasn't happy about us waking her up!

Mason & Sarah!

I have a bunch more pictures of Yellowstone, but if you want to see them you will have to come and visit us and look at them in our scrapbook! Although I don't have any pictures of Old Faithful erupting because the camera batteries went dead right before it went off!

Licence plates we saw while traveling in Yellowstone:

Idaho

Utah

Montana

Michigan

Iowa

Wyoming

Nevada

Colorado

Washington

New York

New Jersey

Missouri

North Dakota

South Dakota

Texas

Pennsylvania

Oklahoma

Alabama

Florida

Massachusetts

British Columbia

Kentucky

Georgia

Indiana

Tennessee

Arizona

Connecticut

Louisiana

New Mexico

Wisconsin

Minnesota

US Government

Ohio

Alaska

Ontario Canada

Hawaii

New Hampshire

Animals we saw:

River Otter

Bison

Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels

Raven

Elk

Mountain Blue Bird

American Gold Finch

Snowshoe Hare

Bald Eagle

Uinta ground squirrel

Canada Geese

Mama Bear and 2 cubs (they were way off in the distance we could hardly see them!)

Clark's Nutcracker

Swan

Crane

Jack Rabbit

Cotton Tail Rabbit

On our way out of the park we had to stop for some Bison crossing the street, Jena will tell you that was her favorite part because they walked right past her window!

Saturday we spent some time playing the XBOX 360, then it was off to play some disc golf and going to Big Jud's for the Big Jud's experience for lunch, they we spent some time relaxing before Mason, Sarah and Madison headed home!

Thanks for coming to visit us Mason, Sarah, and Madison, we hope that you had as much fun as we did!