Heaven, I Mean Island Park

Warning: Travelogue! I don't even know how to make this remotely entertaining, just doing it for recording purposes, so feel free to scroll to the pictures. You probably do anyway. I know I often do if I don't have much time to read.

Boy, I love Island Park! I had never been there until I met Brett, but we have had many a wonderful vacation there. This was a quick trip, but, as always, a good one. We visited Quake Lake, which was rather cold and windy, but beautiful. We then attempted to stop at a picnic table off the side of the road for lunch but the bugs were rampant, or was it the rain? I can't remember, but our outing for that day was cut a little short. The next day, we had to take a trip through Yellowstone. It's only about an hour's drive from the cabin and then saw "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" that night at the Playmill. The next day was spent hanging out around the cabin until Brett, the kids and I had to pack up and head back because Brett had a plane to catch that night. Dang work anyway!

Quake Lake on a cold, windy day. I think we spent about 5 minutes here. We're getting to be wimps getting used to the heat of Arizona.


We spent a great day in Yellowstone, minus all the traffic. We didn't get to stop at nearly as much as we wanted to, but as evidenced by Adie's sleeping picture, we still managed to do enough to wear the kids out.

This is an awesome wood swing hung between two trees in front of the cabin. Adie had it made swinging with her cousin, Amberlee, surrounded by wild flowers.

The Birthday Con't

Well, I continue to struggle documenting mine and my family's lives. It's always been a weakness of mine. Pretty much every journal entry I have ever written begins with an apology that I haven't been keeping up-to-date. It seems our blog is turning into that too. No excuses. I just get bored with the idea of blogging sometimes.

Anyway, to pick up where we left off, which was two months ago already, we celebrated Brett's birthday and the 4th of July a day early with the rest of the Mormondom. However, we did save Brett's present-opening for his actual birthday. This man is difficult to buy for, but if has something to do with BYU, it's usually a pretty good bet, so the kids and I made a trip to the BYU bookstore a week earlier to get some goods.

A new BYU hat - I have never seen Brett wear any other type of hat. He gets a new one just about every year, so he's getting quite the collection these days.

The obnoxious BYU tie - I was going for something a little more muted, but Adie wanted to pick it out and this is the one she liked best. I think Brett likes it too (or, at least, pretends to).

After church, we headed up to beautiful Island Park to spend time at Brett's family's cabin. I wish there were a feasible way to live in Island Park, or a place like unto it. There just don't seem to be a lot of job opportunities for engineers within any sort of reasonable distance :( Oh well, we make the best of it by visiting whenever we can (which isn't so often anymore considering the distance).

Chilling at the cabin

Nothing says we're at a cabin like wearing 'coon skin hats.