Island Park 2009!

Another year of the annual Schenck camping trip to Island Park has come and gone! We have went to Island Park camping almost every year since Trevor and I have been married. It is a trip that their whole family looks forward to all year long. As soon as one year has come and gone, everyone starts planning for the next year! Our kids love it! It is such a fun get away and such a great time for the kids to make memories and get to know all their cousins even better. Trevor has 9 siblings and most of them have between 3 and 6 kids, so we have a huge group who goes up with us each year. We stay at the Coffee Pot campground right in Island Park! We float the river(usually multiple times), play water games in the river, go four-wheeling, go boating/ wake boarding, jump off the bridge into the freezing cold water, go in to Yellowstone, go to West Yellowstone and see a play at the Playmill, sight see all of the beautiful sights around Island Park, go hiking,eat and eat some more, have a huge camp fire every night, and have so much fun and make so many memories with the entire family! It is truly the best trip ever!

This year we went up 2 nights early and did some sight seeing through Yellowstone before meeting up with the rest of the family in Island Park for the next week. So we were away for 10 days and it was wonderful! This year it was a little colder than normal, but that didn't stop us at all, we had a wonderful trip!

the kids eating lunch before going home on the last day

one night at the camp fire

Trevor and I love to go on a canoe ride at sunset-beautiful!

Ridger jumping off the bridge, he did it twice-two different days!

Ryker jumping off the bridge- he did it tons of times! I love how he puts his right

arm out when he jumps, he always does that!

Rylee jumping off the bridge- she only did it once! I love how she plugs her nose!

River jumped so many times I kept missing taking his picture because he would go so quick!

Rylee and Ridger in West Yellowstone

one of the many trips down the river

some people don't know how to obey rules!! No, they didn't see this sign because they actually got in the river at a different location and walked up to that spot to sit! They didn't know the sign was there, but Rylee, Kelly and I did and we were trying to tell them, but they couldn't here us!! It was soooooo funny!!!

a better picture of the law breaking Schenck crew!!- still not knowing they were doing anything wrong! hahahaha!!

Mesa Falls- so beautiful!

Ridger was so done looking at the geysers!

swimming in the river in Yellowstone- legally- no signs posted

around here about not swimming!!

we stopped in Lava on the way up and floated down the riverRyker taking a break from floating

Ridger and Trevor all ready to float it again

Ready to have some fun!!!