Monday, August 1, 2011

Wyoming

Our good friends Paul, Megan and their three little girls, moved to Powell, WY several years ago. Pete and I have gone to visit them twice before on our summer trip out west and this year decided to fly out with Taylor. This was a huge trip for Tay filled will all kinds of "firsts". She took her first plane trip, took her first trip out of Florida, started crawling for the first time, saw a cow, horse, alpaca, and kittens for the first time, took her first trip to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, played in snow for the first time, took a bath with a friend for the first time, saw mountains for the first time, spent the night in a hotel for the first time, celebrated her first father's day, and I am sure there are more that I am leaving out. It was a fabulous trip not only because the area is BEAUTIFUL but because we got to spend time with our friends. Pete was even able to do a ride along with Officer Sapp one night on the dangerous streets of Powell. If you know Pete at all, you know he has lots of good stories from that night!



We drove to the Mountains one day so that we could do a little sledding. Paul, Pete, Philip and Timmy took the three little girls up the mountain to sled. Megan, Jackie and I stayed back in the car with the three babies. After a while I decided that I didn't want to miss all of the fun so we bundled up the babies and set out to meet the rest of the group at the sledding hill. We got to the snow and proceeded to sink down to our knees carrying the three babies. It took all off our energy to make it back to the road and I was sure I had frostbite on my toes.
Grace and Emma loved having a baby for each of them.




Taylor started crawling on the night of her 8 month birthday.



Pete made the mistake of buying a pool for the girls before asking if they had a pump!



Pete's first Father's Day







Emma, Taylor, Grace and Lily



Crawling











Outside the Sapp's house



This was on one of our many excursions







On top of a mountain where we stopped to watch snowboarders










The Sapp family
























This little guy was proudly trotting down the side of the road with his freshly stolen meal



One of the 12 bears we saw in Yellowstone



Paint Pots



Elk arches in Jackson Hole Wyoming






We got two hotel rooms and stayed the night in Jackson Hole. Paul and Megan put the girls down to bed and then came over to our room to hang out for the night. We ate some carry- out and laughed for most of the night.



FINALLY!!!!!

I know that it as been waaaaaaaay too long since I last blogged. As soon as school was out, we hopped a plane to Wyoming for two weeks, flew back for two days then drove to Georgia and North Carolina to camp for a couple of more weeks. Unfortunately (I now have an entire summer to catch up on) I was not able to spend a lot of time on a computer. We had a wonderful summer and was sad to go back to work this morning. The summer trips will soon follow.