working for the weekend.

these past three weekends have been spent outside of rexburg & they have been so great that they have made my mondays 10x worst.

J A C K S O N  H O L E 

 [yellow stone park, jackson lake, grand teton park, jenny lake]

one of my favorite weekends took place in one of my (new) favorite places. i officially got to check it off my bucket list. six of us made the small journey to jackson hole, wy for the weekend. we thought we needed to take advantage of the wonderful fall weather & before we got too lazy to leave the house.

driving the hour and a half to jackson hole was one of the prettiest drives i've ever seen. idaho/wyoming has so many beautiful mountains & trees that it made me want to move here for a second (just a second). 

jackson hole is the cutest little town with shops, bakeries, taverns, & park. everything was cabin themed with a string of lights & has anthers mounted to them. it made me want to cowboy boots & go hunting. 

saturday we had the opportunity to go to grand teton national park. we payed to get in & were able to see yellow stone, jackson lake, & jenny lake. i have never seen a better view than when we pulled over to the side of the road to see jackson lake. we also went a little ways into yellow stone park. the road to old faithful was closed, but we were able to see a lot of geysers that were pretty impressive.

i wanted to stay their forever, but thank you for the amazing weekend, JACKSON!

P R O V O

my brother & sister n law recently had a baby (piper gray), so my parents flew to utah for a week. last friday curtis, tanner, chan, & i spent the weekend with my whole family in provo. 

when we got there the four of us went out to dinner with my parents. it was great for them to actually meet curtis, so they didn't think i was just making him up. 

saturday we went to this fall fair thing called cornbelly's with the family. then just hung out at the house with everyone. the baby nieces warmed up to tanner & curtis pretty fast. my niece kate sneezed on curtis twice, so i don't know how she felt about him. we also celebrated six peoples' birthdays in my family, so we had six cakes. it was awesome. 

on sunday little piper was blessed, we had dinner, & were on our way back to rexburg. it was such a nice weekend with my favorite people.

 B E A R  L A K E

i had the opportunity to go to bear lake for a second time this past weekend and it was the best! it was halloweekend so about 18 of us headed to a friend's cabin right by bear lake. it was super pretty with the changing leaves and blue lake. we played games, carved pumpkins, rode the razor, went off roading, and had the best shakes. it was so fun! [me & curt were robbers by the way]

S I D E  N O T E: my baby sister got engaged!!! by baby, i mean twin sister, got engaged to one of my best friends tanner holmes. they had been dating for almost a year and finally decided to tie the knot. wednesday evening all of our close friends went to the dunes to hide and set off fireworks after tanner asked for her hand. things didn't go according to plan, but it was perfect! it was so fun to see it all happen. i love them so much & i am so happy for them!