We got home from California Monday afternoon and started laundry, we did laundry all day Tuesday and started packing again for our next trip to Montana. We woke up Wednesday morning and headed up to Utah. We had seriously been home for less than 48 hours. It was crazy. David's Grandpa has a cabin up in Island Park, so we stopped in Utah to break up the trip a little. The kids were getting tired of being strapped in car seats. When we first got to Utah we met up with Noah and his girlfriend at Chik-fil-a and let the kids play in the play land while we got to visit, then we headed to a park to play. It was so much fun to see Noah, we don't get to see him enough.

Then we headed over to David's Aunt Tondi's house to spend the night. Tondi and Clif are awesome and we always enjoy seeing them and spending time with them. The funniest thing this time was how much Maylee and Dutch loved seeing Tondi. She looks so much like Fawn and they have such a similar voice that Maylee attached herself to Tondi like she does Grandma and even called her Grandma the whole time we were there. Dutch even started calling her Grandma Tondi. It was too cute.

Thursday morning we picked Fawn up at the airport and headed up to the cabin. The kids did much better having Grandma in the van with them but they were still pretty restless. I finally broke down and let them get out of their car seats and play in the van. Talli was done with her seat and we couldn't let her keep crying so she spent a lot of the trip being held in the back. On the way to the cabin we stopped in Rexburg at Bear World. It was so much fun. You drive your car very slowly through the bear habitat. They walk right up to your car, in front of the car and if you don't keep driving they sometimes play with your car. We watched one bear chew up someones side mirror while they took pictures. I didn't feel like letting my van get destroyed for some pictures but it was fun to watch the bear attacking someone else's car. The kids absolutely loved Bear World. We drove through it three times to watch the bears.

Sitting on Grandma's lap watching the bears. The grizzly bears are the only ones that aren't allow to roam all over and come up to the cars, they are behind a small electric fence but it was fun to watch this bear playing with this huge log. After we drove through the bears a couple of times then we headed into the petting zoo. David got to pet the deer while it was going potty. Dutch and Maylee got to pet this sweet tiny little baby. The baby bears. They also have little kid rides that are all included in the price of the admission, so the kids can go on them over and over again. They loved it. Bear World is definitely a place we want to visit again.

Of course Dutch's favorite ride was the train. They also enjoyed the cars. This ride was so much fun. It was like a tiny Knotts Berry Farm one. Notice Maylee all smiles on the way up. And now clinging to the bar for dear life on the way down. It really got her tummy, it was so funny. After Bear World we finally made it to the cabin. We went to the lake Friday morning to let the kids play and to kayak. The lake was gorgeous, I have never seen such crystal clear lake water before, the only other water I have ever seen so clear was in Hawaii. It was gorgeous and freezing. But that didn't stop Dutch and Maylee from playing in the water. I know the water doesn't look clear here but that's just because the kids have the dirt all stirred up. The kids also enjoyed catching crawdads. I really wanted to swim despite the cold water but I just couldn't get past all the crawdads, they kept freaking me out. There was seriously at least five in very square inch it seemed.

Me freaking out. David trying to catch a big one. Kayaking After the lake Grandma took the kids back to the cabin and David and I got to go kayak down the Madison River with Grandpa Greene, Thad and Lacy. It was a lot of fun. We got soaking wet but we never tipped over. We had a blast.

David took Dutch out to show him the tree swing. He talked it all up, told Dutch how much fun it was and said, "look I'll go first and show you how to do it." So he started running and took off and headed straight for two trees, so he let go and hit the ground from about 7 feet up with a thud. Dutch looked at him and said, "I don't want to do that." David hurt his ribs big time, he's still moaning over them. West Yellowstone has a Playmill there and this year they were putting on Beauty and the Beast. So Grandma and Maylee went together. Before the play they had tea time with Belle. Maylee was super shy but pretty excited to see princess Belle. Ice Cream stop. The kids playing Simon says with Grandpa Greene. Hot Tubbing It was our last trip of the summer and a lot of fun. Thanks Grandma for coming with us.