Welcome Home Uncle Blake!!!

Yesterday Blake came home from the Brussels, Belgium/ Netherlands mission! We were so excited to see him! My parents left two weeks ago to go and pick him up, so he was pretty relaxed and normal yesterday!

Here they are coming down to see all the anxious people waiting for them!


It took forever for them to come. People from their flight kept telling us they were coming...but twenty minutes later, still no sign! Well come to find out, they saw someone they knew, then Blake had to put these on!


Here is the cute missionary!


The siblings!


A family that hosted my parents and Blake bought wooden shoes for each of the grandkids! Daxton wasn't too excited about having hard shoes put on his feet!


We are so happy to have Blake home! We are so proud of him for serving a mission and being a great example to our boys!

Yellowstone!

This last week we decided to take a little family vacation to Yellowstone! It was quite the experience! We had a lot of fun, but traveling with two little boys wasn't as easy as we expected!

When we first got into West Yellowstone (where we stayed in a hotel) we went to a bear and wolf habitat. It was very interesting and we were able to see live bears and wolves. This statue is at the front outside, everytime we went past it Braedon wanted his picture taken by it!

We saw A LOT of Buffalo! They would walk right up to your car! It was pretty cool!

Derek and Daxton walking to see Old Faithful.


While we were waiting to see Old Faithful go off Braedon was complaining about waiting and a nice lady from Florida let him borrow her bears to watch Old Faithful with! When it was about to go off he pulled off their sunglasses to make sure they could see it!


Here is Daxton waiting for Old Faithful!


Here is Old Faithful!


Braedon and me at the lookout for the lower falls in the canyon area!


We did get to see two bears out in the wild! We were so excited! I didn't get any pictures of them because I was taking care of a little baby who didn't think it was so cool that we were seeing bears! But, Derek did get video of one of them, so if you want to see it come on over!