Big-O Davis Family Reunion

Two days after we hiked Timp, we headed up to Island Park, ID, for a huge Davis family reunion. Most of my Grandma Davis' descendants came to this reunion, and it sure was fun! We (mostly I) had a great time catching up with cousins that I hadn't seen for years. We stayed up late one night playing games with some of the cousins close to my age. I also had a bunch of fun playing Nertz with my youngest cousins who are just starting college or in High School. They made me feel young and cool again. :) The kids played with hosts of 1st and 2nd cousins.

We were also close enough to go to Yellowstone for two of the days. The first day, we hiked around by the Waterfalls. We hiked down to just above the lower falls and it was amazing to be so close to all of that powerful water crashing over the rocks.
We drove around the upper loop (and were amazed at how a couple of stops took up our WHOLE day...Yellowstone is huge!) and ended up at Mammoth Springs.

We saw a herd of elk, some bison, bald eagles, and beautiful landscape everywhere. The next day, we stopped at Old Faithful and saw some other amazing geysers. Later that night, the kids, along with their cousins, found some balloons and kept filling them with water and letting them spout and calling them "geysers."

That night, as part of the reunion, our huge family accomplished something that I thought would be impossible...with all the little kids...a live family tree made out of rolls of butcher paper for the trunk and branches and all the people in their appropriate branch. My Aunt Marilyn can pull anything off!

My single sister made sure to add an extra leaf to her branch.

(Our camera's battery was dead, so all of these photos are courtesy of my sister's blog, who is also an awesome photographer! Missy...do you have any more photos you could email me? Especially ones with us in them? I need to ask Mom that, too, since we borrowed her camera.)