May 13, 2009

One Last Hoorah!

We had ourselves a little graduation celebration with our closest Logan friends last weekend in Island Park. The weekend was relaxing, and full of laughs. I'm so glad we had the opportunity to make a few final memories all together.

The first day we had lunch together at this cute little cafe in town. Jon decided we should throw away all the food we brought and eat at the cafe every day instead. He didn't get his way, but I'm pretty sure we were all craving it for the next four days. We highly recommend eating at The Pines if you are ever in Island Park.

The next day after everyone had arrived we took a little trip out to Mesa Falls. This trip was full of waterfalls! We just could not get enough. The babies were mesmerized by the water too.

Here's the whole crew (minus Spencer who was busy playing behind us, and Baylee who was asleep in the truck). Adam, Eden, and Zaida Summers, Jocelyn, Jon, and Taylor Knott, Devin, Erin, and Rory Hepner, Justin, Jess, and Miley Madsen, Jake, Jamie, and Jaxson Bingham.

The rest of the day was spent playin' games, watchin' movies, chillin' in the hot tub, and enjoying pattle boat rides across the lake.

Momma and Miley

Jaxson and Miley J Jacuzzin' Playin' with Dad and Friends
The boys enjoyed 'All you can watch ESPN' while the girls played in the hot tub with the kiddos.
On the third day we headed into Yellowstone for an afternoon of geysers, waterfalls, and buffalo. We made a stop at Old Faithful and walked all around the hot pots and geysers there.

Here's Miley waiting for Old Faithful to do it's thing...And there it goes.

Throughout the day we saw a lot of pretty waterfalls. Here are a couple of our favorites...
Lower falls,
And Upper Falls. We saw a ton of buffalo during our drive. There was an entire herd blocking the road on our way out of the park, and lucky duck Justin got to sit in the back of the truck with these happy campers the whole time...

As you can see our buffalo friends were not concerned about taking their time, and yes, that is Jake on top of his car...

Yellowstone was not a dissapointment. In fact, the entire trip was a total blast the whole time. I already miss everyone. I have to admit there were a few times when I would look around the room filled with all of my friends and start to tear up at the thought of leaving them. The kids were all so cute, and I know Miley had fun being with them. Thanks for coming Knotts, Hepners, Binghams, Summers!! You made the trip complete! Lets do a card game night again soon so I can call Jon the "Game Master" again and have everyone laugh at me!

11 comments:

Laura Barrett said...

Wow girl that looks like so much fun! I think your mom is trying to reserve a place for our family in June up there. Is that the house she's reserving?...if so gorgeous!! Looks like you had a wonderful time, i'm glad you got to have a break away from things:) When are you packing your bags for Canada?

JO said...

what a fun trip! I graduated with Adam, we are the same age, and we share cousins. It looks like you all have babies the same age, how fun.

Anonymous said...

Well, geez now I want to cry cause I miss everyone! What a fun trip! I'm totally jealous!

Catlin said...

This looks like too much fun! It makes me miss everyone a lot, too. I'm glad you got to do something you'll never forget with all these awesome people!

Jen said...

How fun! Looks like you guys had a blast...all those babies are dang cute! Miss everyone!

Karrissa Winward said...

How fun is that? Glad you guys had a great trip together!

Erin said...

What a fun trip for you guys! Sorry we got disconnected on the phone last night; I don't know what happened! I tried calling back, but only got your voicemail. Let's catch up sometime soon!

Jen said...

Unrelated to this post...My sister just graduated from USU and she is totally adorable and SINGLE. She is planning to move to Cali this summer but has no idea when she'll be taking off so we should def try and hook them up on a date soon. E-mail me a pic of him and I'll give you her contact info..."matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match..."

Jill said...

How fun for you all to play together before you leave for Canada! You've inspired me. Now I want us to take a vacation to Yellowstone.

dhepner said...

Jess, we had so much fun - I wish it could have lasted for another week! Let's get together this week. I'm having post-vacation no-friend boredom :) (p.s. this is erin, but I'm signed in under dev's address)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith said...

Jess! It looks like you had such a great weekend! I am so happy for you guys and all of your accomplishments! Tell Justin congrats on graduating AND getting into dental school!!! You are both so amazing! I hope you are feeling good and the pregnancy is going well! We have moved to Hyrum, but we would LOVE to come see you sometime!!! Let me know when you're free. Let us also know when you're moving so we can help you guys! Love ya! I'd love to see you soon!!!