Summer Trip Part 3: more friends!

On our way to Preston from Yellowstone we stopped to see our friends, the Thomas family, in Grace, Idaho. K'Lyn was my first friend when I was little and we have been close our whole lives. It was so fun to stop and see them! There are 6 cute Thomas kids and they live in a beautiful spot! I wish we could see them more often. The kids all had a great time and we had dinner with them before driving on to Preston.

Summer Trip Part 2: Yellowstone

After spending some time at Mt. Rushmore we took off for Yellowstone! It was another long day of driving and we almost quit and stayed somewhere else because Sullivan was so sad, but he finally calmed down when I sat next to him and stroked his face and sang Primary songs to him. I think I sang for over an hour! But we made it to Yellowstone that night and camped right in the Park. It was so busy, but we had a great spot and it was much warmer this night. The next day we met the Seedall family! It was so fun to see them again! Later that day Emily Huff and her kids also met up with us. We drove around and saw some fun sights and then camped about 20 minutes outside of Yellowstone in Montana.

We had  to get a picture of Brian holding Miles and Eliza because he spent a lot of time holding them both when they were babies. 

I wish we could do this every month!

Summer Trip Part 1: South Dakota

We left for our big summer trip on June 16th. Our goal was to make it to South Dakota, 11 1/2 hours away. Pretty lofty goal when you are traveling with 5 kids. But we made it with about 10 minutes of daylight to put up our new tent! We really like Mt. Rushmore, it is pretty amazing and the country is beautiful to drive through.

 On our way!

 Wesley loves using tape and paper so this entertained him a nice, long time.

 Poor Sullivan didn't love the car too much. But overall he did great for being in the car so long!

 At a rest stop somewhere along the way.

 My morning view was pretty sweet.

 Happy camper Wesley

I love cool camping mornings. Although I actually froze this night and slept on the hard ground, which was ridiculous. Why did I think that would be okay? We bought an air mattress before bedtime again.

Our new pop-up tent is awesome.