Wyoming Trip Part Duex

Wyoming take two. Another big trip was up to the mountains nearby to see the snow. I guess there's significantly less up there than maybe a week prior when they took the girls up. But there was still plenty to play around in.


John and Trev are both in there--they climbed up a bit higher than the rest


Two little snow cowboys


Trev and Kaya in a snow cave

Someone (Marie or Jackie)had the good idea of bringing up different colored water bottles to decorate the snow.




Snow Graffiti


Trev and his dog Tucker who lives in Texas


Snow baseball


If there's a stick lying around, Ryan will find it







Getting close to lunch time... contributing to one flop of a family picture

We went to Barber lake on the way back for lunch and some fishing.


I was very excited to find the bug spray--we were eaten like crazy all week


Kaya and Ryan getting some worms


Cute little fisher people


And this is fishing without anything on the other end...


Trevor was very excited to catch his first fish


Uncle Dan having him touch it


Ryan making a fishy face at the fish he caught


Ryan and Kaya--they were having a discussion about the dangers of fire ants

Here's some playing around the house pictures...


Bapa Bill was highly requested reader


Bapa Bill showing Trev how to practice cast


Playing soccer with Auntie Marie cause Uncle Dan doesn't acknowledge the sport


Wrestling


Ryan and Kaya





And much to my excitement Kim was able to come up from Fort Collins to spend a day.


Me and Kim!



Marie and I were "running errands" at the coffee shop and stopped to take a picture with the nearby sign on the entrance to a hair salon/spa. We felt it captured our afternoon.


We went back to Veedawou with the Williams and Grammy Jackie. Trevor is thoroughly in love with the area and suggested that we get a house that is right next to Veedawou so we wouldn't have to drive there.


Dan and the girls


Kaya the little mountain goat


Lunch at John's favorite table


Ryan and Auntie Marie looking at a squirrel


Self portrait with Gracie--turns out we are both princesses


Waiting for the plane at DIA

Wyoming Trip Part One

We visited Wyoming end of June--timing our stay to match with John's sister and her family's visit. Due to the amount of activity and having twice as many cute children (meaning more pictures to sort through), I will split the entries into two.

The boys travelled very well--driving down to Santa Ana, flying to Denver, then driving up to Laramie. We flew Horizon, which turns out to have cookies instead of pretzels and little TVs on the back of each seat. So Trevor was pretty dang impressed. Ryan lasted through the take off and a little bit in the air before falling asleep (it was about two hours past his nap time). During take off he cautioned "hold on tight".

First stop was the train tracks. No actual trains went by while we were up above the tracks. Fortunately we are pretty easy to please--just being up high and seeing the trains that were not moving was still pretty interesting.



Aaron was able to come up to visit the first weekend. As suggested, we hyped him up. Trev was looking forward to seeing him and really wanted him to sit in the back next to him. So he got to partake in deep discussions like 'who's your favorite princess?'



We went to walk around campus to see all the changes and some of the things that were still the same. The kids climbed rocks and we found that the Geological Museum was open. Dinosaurs are cool.



























Gracie signing the visitor book

Turns out that there's a really cute and yummy coffee place/cafe right next to where we used to live. So we stopped for drinks. The kids were getting tired of smiling for pictures at this point. John and Aaron were still game.



Bedtime was the trickiest thing to work out during the stay. Here's the cute part where they are all gathered around daddy/uncle Johnny in their jammies.



Ryan was pretty thrilled to be a cowboy. He brought his 'horsie boots' with him and Grammy Jackie and Bapa Bill had a Ryan sized cowboy hat waiting for him to wear.



We met up with Aaron again to go out to Veedawou late afternoon the next day. The boys were very impressed with all the big rocks. Trev took off with Aaron and John and Ryan and I maybe went about half as far as they did. Ryan was very diligent in identifying what animal the different rocks were--lots of shark rocks, dinosaur rocks, bear rocks...

Seemed like these two pictures could be in some sort of story book:





Aaron trying to get Ryan to smile for the camera next to him


John trying to 'hold up the rock'--Trev opted not to help because it wasn't really going to fall





Ryan found the little bridge to be very entertaining. We marched back and forth on it for a while. Then he became the bridge troll, giving orders to when others can cross.






Ryan watching the bigger boys coming down