Happy 50th Grams and Gramps

This year (in December) my Grandparents are celebrating the 50th Wedding Anniversary.

Congratulation you two! Because of this my whole family (extended and all) rented a Lodge in Island Park as a celebration of their 50th/family reunion. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity so we lived it up...really we did! We spent four days and three nights up among the trees and splendor! Here it is our home away from home!

If anyone is looking for such a place I highly reccommend it!

Bonus! It is also for sale!

So while we were there we pretty much did everything you could imagine...ate, slept, visited, ate, played games, watched movies, ate, sang around the campfire, rode horses, excercised, ate, slept a little, canoed, hiked, killed tons of mosquitos, ate, attended a play at the Playmill in West Yellowstone, ate, relaxed in a hot tub.... you catch my drift. This post would be way to long if I continued much longer. But here are a few pictures of our adventures in the great outdoors.

Our first stop takes us to West Yellostone and the Playmill theater! Here we are ALL walking around West as typical tourist do...but alas we are not typical tourist now are we. No..but what is it that seperate us from the rest of the crowd. None other than our matching RED T-shirts. (I told you we lived it up!) Everyone...even the babies had matching T-shirts. AMAZING!!! (You gotta now my grandpa...He DOES NOT where T-shirts!) Anyways we were all (well most of us) were pretty proud of our shirts.

As we continue the next stop is Big Springs and floating down the river. Most of the family (excluding me and Abby and a few other fearful folks) rented canoes and floated down the river starting at Big Springs. It was a fun experience for all the foreigners! (Literally.. foreigners!)

Just look at us...what a herd! And that's not even all of us!

Finally out last stop...Horseback Riding. What an ADVENTURE! Again most of the family... excluding those horrified humans.... rode horses through natures best.

So anyways as you can see we had a FABULOUS time...and there are much more pictures and adventures for show and tell, but for the sake of my fingertips and your eyes I am going to finish this post real soon. I just want to end with some (okay lots...but how can you narrow down to only a few when you have OVER 500 pictures...sorry) final pictures of we the "Blanchard Beauties!" Enjoy!