Our last day home

On our last day in Wyoming, we got to have a special outing with our entire family (except for my sister in law shannon who was sick).  My parents took us all up to the mountains to eat at Bear Lodge.  They bought lunch for all 20 of us!  I asked my dad if he ever imagined having that many people in his family he could be taking out to eat.  We are rapidly multiplying, that's for sure! This is our family at Bear Lodge getting ready to order.

Thanks mom and dad!


After we all ate we headed over to Lake Sibly to do some fishing and playing in the water.   We started out letting the girls just put there feet in.  But we all knew that it wasn't going to end with the feet :)

My mom with my soon to be sister in law McKenzie:

McKenzie and Seth

Me with my nephew Jay.  They were so excited when they saw Aunt Nina catch a frog for them.  They didn't know I would ever hold a frog!  I had to remind them that's all me and my brothers used to do all summer was catch frogs in the ditch.

Papa with his sweetheart, Hailey

Miss Kayla enjoying the sun

Aunt Karren with my niece, Rylee

I kept telling Callie not to get in the mud, because we were leaving for our long trip home straight from the lake, not showering or anything.  So I knew what we left looking like was what we were going to be looking like for the next 24 hours.  We ended up stripping all the girls down. And they all got muddy, including me.  Brynlee even rubbed mud all over her body.  She loved the feel of it.

Aunt Karren, Jay and Callie

Uncle McKay with Sam

Nanna with Rylee

One of the best days we've had in a long time.  So glad we got to spend it with our family!  I'm missing them already.

The Parade

The last Saturday that we were in Wyoming the girls got to go to the town parade with their cousins and Nana and Papa.  It was hot!  I thought this picture was so funny when I saw it, Aunt Karren must have taken it.  Looks like both the girls are ready to fall asleep on the sidewalk waiting for the parade to start, lol.

My nephew Jay is just so cute, I just want to pinch his little cheeks!

Finally some hydration!  I had to go to the store to get some drinks because I forgot to bring some, not sure what I was thinking.

Here is the whole gang on the curb.  Including my new sister in law to be, McKenzie she is in the far left.

Our "Dollie's of the Follies"  are a big tradition in our town.

The kids were fascinated by the Kiwana's cars.

Family Fun night

We went to Lovell during the week when they were having a lot of their town festivities, so we had plenty of fun activities to attend. One night was called "Family Fun night", it was at the park and they had tons of booths and games set up for the kids to play. They were even serving dinner.

Brad teaching Callie how to use the squirt gun.

Nanna helping Hailey with the cake walk.

Silly Callie

The girls were so excited to get butterfly's painted on their faces!

This last one is of my brother Seth with his new fiance, McKenzie.  I cannot wait for them to get married!  She will make such a great sister in law, I love her already :)

Biker babes

On one of the days when we were in Wyoming, my mom and sister watched all of the kids so that Brad, me and my brother and sister in law could all go on a motorbike ride. We went to Barry's Landing and Devils canyon overlook.

The scenery was so beautiful.  And we even saw some wild mustangs on the side of the road that were gorgeous!

This just makes me miss home.  You can't see places like this just anywhere.

My sister in law even spotted some mountain sheep, she has a much better eye than I do, if you look closely you can see them in this picture.

When we got to Barry's Landing my brother wanted to jump in the lake because it was so hot.  We were trying to persuade him not to jump because there might be rocks he couldn't see, our persuading must have worked because he finally settled for jumping off the dock, lol!