Ashton family reunion and Yellowstone

My dad has 12 kids in his family, and they all have a bunch of kids, and this was an extended family reunion, so you could imagine how many shirts had to be made for this glorious event. This was not even close to all of them. There were a bunch of people missing, but still a ton of people. My mom and dad were not able to make it so I got to be in charge and fly 3 of my sisters and Sadie to Salt Lake City and then we drove to Island Park Idaho for the grand festivities. We had a fabulous time.

Yellowstone...

We were right next to Yellowstone so we decided to spend an extra day and go check it out. It is so beautiful there. We saw a lot of the park for being there just one day.

We actually had a really interesting hotel experience that night. Actually I'm not to sure you could call it a hotel. After the reunion I tried to get us a room at the place we were staying but they were all booked so I called around and found a place about an hour from Yellowstone. They call it the Lazy Trout Lodge. They said they had a cabin available for us for $170. So I took it thinking "okay, for $170, the room should be fine." So we show up that night completely exhausted from our day of adventures at Yellowstone, and the place is a complete dive. My sister called it a shed on stilts. Which is basically what it was. I'm not sure how they came up with cabin. So it's July and I'm pregnant and we go in the room and I'm searching everywhere for the thermostat. Yeah- no AC, not even a fan! So I decided I was going to call them and ask why there is no AC. Am I just blind or is there really no AC? But I couldn't find a phone. No phone. Okay, so I go walk down this creepy dirt road to where these owners slept and ask them about the AC and they said it doesn't ever get hot here. HAHA!! It does. Have you ever been to Idaho in July? I'm sorry, but it gets hot. So I'm thinking there is no way I am going to be able to sleep tonight, it's super late, and we are in the middle of nowhere. What the heck!! So the guy goes on to tell me that it's just because I'm pregnant (blah blah blah) and gives me his kids dingy old fan from his bedroom. And I slept... or didn't sleep, I can't remember. I think it's due to the bugs that flew into my brain that night and sucked all my memory from me. I could go on about this place but I am personally trying to forget. I just think that for $170 a night they could at least have a phone! (AC would be nice too).

Sadie loved all the rivers. We stopped a bunch and let her play in the water.
Abbey and Sadie waiting patiently in the heat for her faithfulness (Old Faithful)
and she shows her faithfulness to us...
Sadie loved, loved, loved the water! It was actually really warm from all that geothermal steam or whatever it is.

After all this fun we were able to hang out with Mark's family a bit. They so graciously showed us around temple square and even let us use their car. Sweet!