South Dakota Vacation

You know that feeling you get when you are going through your vacation pictures and you realize that this doesn't even BEGIN to capture the beauty of what you just experienced? Yeah, that. Oh well, I will still share with you a glimpse of what we did on our South Dakota vacation!


It all started off with going to my cousin's wedding in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I have so many great memories with Tiffani at our Mama and Papa's house, and couldn't be happier for her!

Bet you wouldn't have guessed there is a pretty great waterfall in Sioux Falls!! Here are my little people after the wedding posing for a photo. Don't worry, the Falls were much bigger than what is pictured!

Our happy Colby, enjoying the view of the Falls as well.

After a good night's sleep, we headed west to the Badlands. I cannot even begin to tell you about the beauty of these land formations. Just, wow!

We took our littles, strapping the smallest onto Brad, for some mini hikes. This proved to be one of the highlights of the trip for Evelynn and Lyla. I think we could have spent days there exploring.

Colby was honestly the best traveler in our car. He was SO happy, he definitely gets the gold star for complaining the least and making the best out of every situation!

My girls love adventures!

I think they come by that pretty honestly.

Did I mention that we decided that this was merely a reconisence mission? We are definitely going back!

Colby and Brad imitating this hilarious guy we saw on one of the many rolling hills leading you west in South Dakota. The guy was on a little moped and about halfway up this hill to a stoplight he started to lose steam. He got this huge grin on his face, leaned forward, and put his arm out! Brad and I almost died laughing at this guy. To say the least, it wasn't the last time we struck this pose on the trip!

Not all of our hikes were off road, several were available on these little trails, which were fun as well.

Aren't they the cutest little explorers?

Look closely, there are people hiking in this picture!

Our family stayed a little lower to the ground.

Mule deer and her baby

A nice couple took our picture in the middle of one of the man-made trails.

Seriously amazing.

We saw this bison on the side of the road as we were driving to our cabin in Custer State Park. SO FUN!

Deer

We got another good night's rest and headed off to Mount Rushmore. Problem was, there was too much to see on the way there! So out of the car we went, we at least had to check out this little cave!