Yellowstone

 and thereabouts

Here are some pictures from our family reunion trip to Southeastern Idaho and Yellowstone

Mesa Falls

Floating Henry's Fork - we had a lot of fun

Visiting Old Faithful

A wet day at Mammoth Hot Springs

It was a great trip - I think I was just in mental/emotional exhausted mode the whole time and not at my best - summer wore me out this year!!  But everyone had fun.  Whenever I go to Yellowstone I wish I could spend another week there.

On the way back - we stopped quickly at Craters of the Moon - another place we need to visit!!

And we eventually made it back home!!  A fun week!!

November

We had an epic friend birthday party for Emma - 15 kids!!  It felt like a lot for me - glad its done now - but it turned out well.

And had a special b-day lunch at Olive Garden - Emma picked that restaurant because she loves the breadsticks

Emma's fall soccer season finished up

we got rid of the jack-o-lanterns

Emma made mini pumpkin pies at activity girls

Emma also helped me prep a lot of food for Thanksgiving

Getting the table ready!  We hosted Scott's side of our extended family this year - I think it went well, although I wish our living room was a little bigger when we have lots of people over.

More seating on the patio - we have a heat lamp out there that we used

All the cousins were there!  It was a lot of fun.

Hooray for cousins

The next day we got together with some of my side of the extended family to celebrate our Keeler nephews Gideon (blowing out candles) and Adam (blue/aqua shirt next to little table) and their birthdays.

And we got to celebrate Ben (a Guptill nephew) and his birthday with swimming, Chick-Fil-A and cupcakes.  It was so fun seeing everyone!!

A few weeks later Emma was baptized

We had wanted to do it over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend so everyone could be there but our stake leadership didn't want us to do that

Some family got to come and it was nice

Matthew and our youngest Guptill nephew, Clark are best buddies!!

And Emma with cousin Norah

It was a great day!

Bear Lake

We went to a family reunion at Bear Lake in northern Utah.  We went there because they have a lot of large vacation rentals there - large enough for our family.  We stopped one night to stay with Scott's sister in Boise on the way there.

She surprised us with some birthday treats for the birthday kids.  It was so sweet!!

For Anna

and John

It was nice to see them!!

We did make it to Bear Lake and met up with the whole Keeler clan

These pictures are all mixed up but here they are

Emma and our nephew, Adam at the beach

The kids loved the water!

We kayaked and just played

One day my brother rented a pontoon boat and everyone had so much fun going out on it

Swimming in the super clear water out in the middle of the lake

I didn't get a lot of pictures on the boat but everyone got a chance to go out - some went out many times and even the little kids had so much fun swimming out in the middle of the lake.  We spent two days out on the lake.

Our crew

We had to get raspberry shakes - a Bear Lake specialty

yum!

hanging out back at the rental

Scott and I played a hilarious game of "Snake Oil" with my brother Will and his wife, Courtney and my brother-in-law Dana.  They are all so funny!!  We laughed and laughed.  All my siblings are funny, but weren't all free to play with us that time, sadly.  This picture is during a game of Princess Bride I think.

All the Keeler cousins

Kate

Matthew, Anna, Grant, John and Emma

Aiden

Whitney, Rachel, Megan, Adam and Hannah

and 

Magnus, Gideon, Axel and Enoch

Does that make 16 grandkids?

And all the Keelers!!  It's quite a feat getting us all together!

And our little family

Scott and I with Bear Lake behind us - a nice view from the rental

It was a fun trip - I hope we can get together again soon

And after our reunion we headed down to BYU for a college tour.  We got to ride around on the golf carts and Matthew and Anna got a special tour of some of the major buildings they are interested in.  We stayed at another of Scott's sister's houses - but sadly they weren't there - but kindly let us stay anyway.   We had fun visiting BYU though.  Go Cougs!!