Monday, August 11, 2008

The Wild, Wild West

We took a sweet 2 week vacation to the Western part of the country with DH's family and had a blast. We spent most of our time in Eastern Idaho (right near West Yellowstone) doing every fun summer activity possible - swimming in the river, floating down the river, riding on the 4-wheelers (and getting sweet air), digging in the dirt, playing with cousins, eating Papa's yummy pancakes, drinking lemonade, helping with a cattle drive for the ages, seeing moose, seeing a bald eagle, bison, and Old Faithful in Yellowstone, feeding the fishies, celebrating every cousin birthday with the best "Un" birthday party ever, celebrating my own b-day, trading our "Favorite Things," eating junk, playing golf, working out to Kelly's rocking revised Tae-Bo, going on long walks, watching the rodeo, late night "Bubble Babble," playing cards, spending time together, and not sleeping. The motto of the trip - "Sleep when you're home." A few of our favorite moments captured below...


Love you, Dad!



Mr. A helping me blow out my candles


The gang celebrates



Miss M and Me at the Rodeo

DH and Mr. A at the rodeo

The many faces of Miss M

We sure think she's fun!

Best ride around

Mr. A and his cousin, Little D, "surfing" on the flipped over canoes

Team Seamons Grandkids - all 17 of 'em!

Floating the river

Going 4-wheeling

Golfing on the green in the backyard of the cabin

On our way out there - Mr. A asked for a blanket while he watched his show. I did ask if he wanted the pillow too - he said, "No, thank you. You're welcome."

The Fab Four - these boys were all born within a year of each other and we could not get ONE shot of all of them looking - they're hilarious

2 comments:

Jules said...

Man- you hit them all! We sure did a lot! You beat me on the vacation post, I just put mine up! THat was so dang fun. Miss you guys!
p.s. I thought you didn't get any air on the 4 wheelers!?! hmmmm!

The Egglestons said...

Looks like a lot of fun! I am glad that you were able to celebrate your birthday with such a party, too. What a great get together!