Happy Birthday to Cody! This year for Cody's Bday, Teague, me, and our best friends Tiff, Jesse and Cody decided to run away to Yellowstone. My roommate Tiff has a family cabin in Island park that we got to crash for the weekend. The cabin was only maybe 100 yards from a huge lake! We spent most of the time down there laying out on the floating docks, and playing in the water. I am a fish, I LOVE to be in the water. I was in the water the majority of the first day, until.... Jesse got out of the water to find blood sucking leaches on his back. I do NOT do leaches. So, after that, I was content on just sunbathing and hanging out on the beach. Leaches, bleh!
The cabin
Playing in the woods
the lake
The wild man eating frog the boys found! EW!
The next day we spent in the little, old town of Yellowstone. We went through all the little souvenir shops, and ate at a local BBQ joint that was delicious! After shopping, we went to the bear and wolf habitat center. It was kind of like a small zoo, with with bears and wolves. There were two different wolf packs, and the lady there taught us about the packing order. Alpha, the leader, Beta, second in command, and Omega, the remaining members of the pack. What I thought was cool was in both packs, the Alpha leader was a girl! As it should be :]
The bear exhibit was so fun. They had a bear their that was 30 years old, and 1100 pounds! She was HUGE! My favorite part of the whole park was when they did the bears food demonstration. The trainers came out and hid food all over the park. In trees, under huge piles of logs, in a trash can... and then they released the bears and they came out and found it all. It was crazy to see how creative they were trying to retrieve the food from where they were hiding. And in a matter of minutes, they had found it ALL. Just goes to show you how easily a bear could get into your campsite food if you aren't careful about putting it all away! We got this great video of one of the bears getting a food container out of one of the trees.
We all brought our dogs with us, Cody had Butters, We had Bella and Alice, and the Baty's had Dillan. So the last day we spent hiking some trails with the dogs, and playing down in the water with them. They were so much fun to have with us! That night, we came back to the cabin and were pretty cold. So Jesse turned on the fireplace. Little did we know, that fireplace had been the home to a bat! It came flying out of the chimney into the cabin, and started flying around everywhere! Running into walls, diving into all of us, it was so scary! So Tiff and I barricaded ourselves into the bedroom, while the boys tried to catch the little beast. We video taped it, and it was one of the funnies things I've ever seen. Cody finally caught it in a mixing bowl, and threw him outside. But it made for a super funny ending to our fun vacation!
A couple of weeks ago, Teague and I got to go to his family reunion. We all stayed in these great cabins at Rivers Edge in Heber. He had family coming from all over the country! From California, all the way to Florida. It was so nice to be able to meet everyone. We've been married for almost 3 years now, and after this reunion, I realized I hadn't even met HALF of his family. It was such a fun weekend.
The majority of the weekend was spent chatting, meeting new people, eating, laughing and fishing. Well, attempting to fish anyway... Teague and his brother Steven wanted to go fishing, so Alyx (my wonderful sister-in-law.) and I brought some drinks and lawn chairs, and went with them. We got to the pond, and their was no shade ANYWHERE. It felt like it was over 100 degrees and we were melting. We set up our lawn chairs to watch the boys fish in the blistering heat, and then a few minutes later we were literally attacked by ants! We were COVERED. So needless to say, Alyx and I didn't last long at the pond.
Grandma Wolf and Teague's aunt Laurie had put together all these old home movies, and slide shows of all these old black and white pictures of the family that were so cool to watch. Everyone gathered together and played "guess who" to all the old pictures. So fun!
My assignment for the reunion was to do family pictures of everyone up there. And when I say everyone, I mean over 80 people, and LOTS of individual families. It was quite a feat! Somehow, amidst the chaos, and with help from Teague's fantastic cousin Erin, we managed to make it all work!
Our Wolf Family
Teague's wonderful Grandparents
The WHOLE gang!
The Max Wolf descendants
Between the all nighters by the bon-fire, and taking over the field nearby to play kick ball, the weekend was a fun filled success! I'm so glad we were able to go.
Last week, Teague and I and my Radle family decided to run away to Park City for the weekend. We got there pretty late that evening and decided to go downtown to get some dinner. We ate at Park City Noodles and I have to say, it was some of the best Italian food ever!
The next day, we decided to spend playing in the pool. Little did I know that a fun day at the pool would end up with an emergency trip to the dentist! Bethany was swimming underwater, and ran into the side of the pool. (Oh how I love my brilliant sister. haha!) She chipped a huge chunk out of her front tooth, and spent the rest of the afternoon getting it fixed at the dentist. OUCH!
After the tooth incident, we headed to Sundance to see one of my favorite plays EVER. We got to see the Sound of Music! For those of you who haven't been to the Sundance theatre before, it is an outdoor theatre tucked away in the Provo Canyon mountains. You get to sit on these grassy hills on blankets that surround the stage. The hills were definitely alive with the sound of music! It was the perfect setting for this play! The actors were running all up and down the hills singing and dancing, and the music in that play are some of my VERY favorite songs. It was a beautiful play, even though it rained through about half of it.... We watched the majority of it huddled together under a blanket, dripping wet. But oh well, it just added to the whole outdoor theatre experience!
Sunday we met up with my Uncle Glen and his partner Raymond, and Aunt Heather and her kids at Jordenelle Reservoir. My Aunt Heather just got some brand new wave runners, and we were kind enough to help break them in for her. We spent the whole day playing on the beach, and swimming in the lake. And of course, cruising around the lake on her wave runners. We had so much fun! I have decided I must be part fish... there's nothing in this world I love more than playing in the water. I just love it!
After doing a little shopping at the Tanger Outlets in Park City, we headed for home. It was such a fun little trip!
