Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Yellowstone, October 13-17

We headed up to Yellowstone for a few days for a little vacation. Chris was really looking forward to seeing all the animals again. I was looking forward to both the wildlife and the geysers, and hot spring.


of course we have to go look at the hot springs


Sapphire Pool

Mommy and Me at the Sapphire Pool


Me and Jared (it was a little chilly that morning)


Chris got a mommy grizzly bear for the baby grizzly bear he got last year, and he wanted to carry it in his jacket....I think its pretty darn cute


our trio with The Lower Yellowstone Falls in the background

Mr Cheeser with The Lower Yellowstone Falls


Lower Yellowstone Falls


Lower Yellowstone Falls, such a beautiful place


My guys


Upper Yellowstone Falls

Just above the falls

top of the Upper Falls

the falls

Firehole River Falls

Black Cauldron.... one of my favorites


3 goof balls with the Black Cauldron behind us


My goof balls


Mommy and me with a mud pot behind us


Lil man pointed out all the buffalo poop along the trail, he thought it was hilarious that there was poop on the trail


another Mommy and me shot

someone stole mom's sunglasses


mmuuaahh ... eat your hearts out ladies



You can't go to Yellowstone and not go see Old Faithful

Lil Man and Old Faithful

Old Faithful erupting

Mommy and me at Old Faithful


another random geyser

Lil man on one of the geyser walks


Of course there has to be wildlife at Yellowstone!

some buffalo


one of the many elk we saw, this was actually one of the smaller bull elk we saw, however he was chasing off an even smaller one


this guy had the largest rack of all the bull elk we saw, however he was smaller mass wise. We figured he must be pretty old, and had been run off by some younger tougher bull since he was all alone with no cows

and we had one of them stick his tongue out at us

one of about 5 coyotes we saw

one of two wild wolves we saw! This was the first time I've ever seen the wild wolves in the park. There were two here, this grey one and a black one, but I was only able to get a picture of this grey one

another shot of the grey wolf


we saw a black bear this time


one of the grizzly bears at the Discovery Center in West Yellowstone


stuck in a bear trap

caught me a little man!


GGRRRooowwwll

checking out a wolf den


our trio

this looks like a good place for a nap

We had a great time on this trip. We had a lot of fun looking for all the wild animals. Chris gets a big kick out of the buffalo that are right along the road and that are close to the car. He thought the geysers were pretty cool, but he said they were stinky.

"Barnyard Boo"

For Halloween Thanksgiving Point does a "Barnyard Boo". Its a less scary thing for kids to do. We went and did the pumpkin painting, and then Chris wanted to go and play around with what looked like a croquet course. He had fun crawling around and sticking his head thru the holes.

a little battie

My pumpkin

BOO

of course, no trip to Thanksgiving Point is complete without the pony ride

painting his pumpkin

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Big Cottonwood Canyon


Chris and I took a trip up Big Cottonwood Canyon. One of the canyons up from Salt Lake City. We wanted to go for a hike and see what fall colors we could see up there. We had a great time going for a little walk around Silver Lake.

Eeewww... he found some moss

a hug for mom.... or maybe a choke hold


showing some leg :-)
I think he was really playing with making shadows

nice little pic of the lake and some changing leaves

stopping for a picture

mommy and me... being a goof ball

some beautiful yellows

more yellows

another shot of the lake

trying to hide in the trees

taking a break, he said his legs hurt to much to walk anymore :-)

showing off his hat hair


After our walk around Silver Lake we took a drive over Guardsman pass into Park City


more of the beautiful yellows

thats the dirt road we drove on

finally found some oranges!




Chris started dancing as we were walking along the trail. At first he said it was his "sexy booty dance".... but I think it ended up being more of a "watching his shadow" dance.