Thursday, the 5th, Ry and I played in our couples tournament that we placed first in, not too shabby for my first tournament, I won't mention what my handicap was though. Mareesa watched Coop while we did that and then I picked her up and dropped Ry off and we headed up to West Yellowstone. My parents and the boys left earlier that morning to go through the park and we were just planning on meeting them at our room in West Yellowstone. On the way there we stopped for some delicious homemade waffle cones and ice cream at Dave's and little Coop was out shortly after. The weather was hot and gorgeous when we left Pocatello and as we were driving through Island Park we got hit with a huge hail and rain storm that I think followed us to West Yellowstone. We were to early for check in and my parents and the boys were over in Yellowstone, so we wandered around town, bought some sweatshirts because it was in the 90's when we left and significantly lower there and looked at all the cute little shops while we waited to check in.
Once we were all checked in, we settled in and decided to go swim until the rest of the gang got back, the pool was pretty chilly but Coop still loved jumping in, he would say "one, two freeee!" he loves the water, that's for sure. Once my parents and the boys got there we showered and had dinner together and then the boys wanted to go get some sweatshirts to match ours. It was pouring rain, there was tons of lightning and thunder, we all love a good summer storm, so we sat out on the deck and watched.
The next day we were all moving much slower than we should have been to get to the reunion in time. We stopped at Grandma Sheppard's grave and then headed to Driggs; while we were driving the national weather service kept interrupting on the radio to warn of quarter size hail, gusts of wind 40-50 mph and basically to stay inside. Well, our family reunion was out in Cedron outside, and of course the second we pulled up the storm hit. We got to say hi to a few of our relatives but then headed back to great-grandpa's house in Driggs to hang out for a bit. Coop loved the horses in the field and kept picking grass to feed them while literally squealing with delight. There wasn't much family reunion food left and we were all hungry so we headed down to Tony's after we basically said hi and bye to everyone. Tony's was delish, but they ran out of food so fast that I didn't get to eat as much as I would have liked, but it was fun to just hang out together. After Tony's we stopped at the drugstore so my parents could get their lime freezes before we hit the road.
We took the scenic route over Piney home, Marcus rode with Ween, Coop and I. It was a quick little trip but we had a great time.
On the way to West Yellowstone and Coopster sporting his tourist sweatshirt.
During checkout the boys had way too much fun with the baggage cart, Coop was belly laughing SO hard.
At great grandpa's house feeding the horses and then at the Drugstore, lining up all the "anmals" he wanted them all and would've spent all day in there. So cute.
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