Summer Happenings

Thus far this summer has been a crazy whirlwind full of fun, family and a healthy dose of stress. Our summer started back in April just after finals. We had Kyle's brother, Cameron, living with us for a couple weeks, then his dad came to visit and then just after that my brother, Marc, came to live with us for an undetermined amount of time which only ended up being the weekend. Anyway it felt like a long time before our teeny tiny little home was just ours again.  

While his dad and brother were staying with us we headed into the canyon to see the Bridal Veil Falls (Utah). It's just a quick walk up the entirely paved trail and then a short trail up the mountain to about the middle of the falls. It was a nice quick trip and one more thing off our Utah bucket list.

Bridal Veil Falls from the bottom.

Bridal Veil Falls from the bottom.

Cameron and dad at the middle of the falls. This is as high as  you are allowed to hike on this trail.

Kyle and I at the middle.

But immediately after all of this we were able to go on our first vacation of the summer to Yellowstone and Bozeman, MT. Yay!! Kyle's best friend from high school got married in Bozeman and we decided that on our way up we would spend some nights camping in Yellowstone. Unfortunately because we decided so last minute that we could go, we didn't bother looking at the weather report and just committed to it. So we planned for cold but not very well for the amount of snow that would fall while we were there.

The snow on our way to Yellowstone.

5 minutes after we reached our campsite. The sun came out and everything was melted.

Our trip was cold and wet but so much was absolutely beautiful.

While in Yellowstone we saw tons and tons of buffalo as well as quite a lot of elk. But the entire time what I most wanted to see was a bear. And guess what?!! We did!! Actually we saw a mommy bear with her two cubs the were running away from the road when we saw them so we didn't get a picture of them unfortunately but we did see them!! I was so excited. We also a lot of ravens as well a coyote. All of the animals were so cute and there were a lot of babies which was really neat to see.

It was such a great trip despite the weather and more importantly the wedding ceremony was beautiful and it was great to see how happy Matt and Pattee are together. This was the first time we had met Pattee and she's everything you could hope for your best friend to marry. Unfortunately our camera was left behind so we don't have any pictures of them but trust me the day was beautiful.