Stout Family Trip to Jackson Lake

Two of my brothers-in-law, Spencer and Dustin, planned a big trip for all of Alan's family at Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park.  We stayed in a big group campsite, had amazing company and campfires, and ate delicious food.  We really enjoyed ourselves.

We also spent a really fun day in Yellowstone.  My little family went there last summer with all the Curtises, but this year we got to go to a couple geyser basins that we didn't get to see last year.  It was great.  

All of the following pictures were taken at Yellowstone:

West Thumb Geyser Basin

Bison blocking traffic

Dragon's Mouth Spring--coolest place ever!

In front of the mud volcano--very stinky!

This was our only family picture.  Nice.  This was in front of a bubbling spring near mud volcano.  

Evelyn in front of Old Faithful

In front of Yellowstone Lake

 These next pictures were obviously taken at our campground.

Hard to see, but there is a BEAR in the center of the picture.  Yeah, this was in our CAMPGROUND.  Most people thought it was cool, but I will admit that I was a bit freaked out.  

That is our tent in the center.  Good thing we had the rain fly--it rained both nights!

Evelyn looked so cute in her huge sleeping bag!

Unfortunately, the trip for my little family was cut short because Maggie got the stomach flu the second night and barf got all over all of her sleeping stuff as well as three additional sleeping bags. It was a nightmare to try to deal with in the middle of the night when the bathrooms were a good walk away from the tent.  So we packed up the next morning and came home from the trip early.  Jared actually stayed an extra day in the care of Grandma and Grandpa Stout.  :)   Lucky him.

We look forward to our next Stout family vacation!