Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Exploring the Big Horns

This week has been really fun, our next door neighbors from Idaho came to visit their family and us in Wyoming. Tobee grew up here in Cowley, so they have been showing us the sites. Yesterday was so fun, we went on this crazy STEEP road up the mountain (this picture is towards the top of the road). It was BEAUTIFUL!!
 
One of the first things that Trace and Tyson had to do was throw rocks off the edge...I don't blame them, I kinda wanted to try it too. Ü
 
Here is Jenny and I (and Justin and Mason-notice them in the background)
 
After we got to the top, we went to Bald Mountain for a picnic. The girls were SO excited to see all the beautiful dandelions and worked hard to pick some bouquets for us.
Tyson and Keylee's grandma and grandpa Monk were the planners of this excursion. They found some stuff so we could pan for gold in this little creek. The kids loved it,and after about 15 min or so, all the adults had taken over and the kids were off exploring. It was pretty fascinating. We found some pretty sparkly specks of something (we'll say its gold).
 
Mason had a blast, he played in the creek, climbed into an old fire pit, drank some water out of someones panning-for-gold pan...nothing like the great out doors. 

It was a great day and we all had a lot of fun. Thanks Christiansens and Monks!!

4 comments:

Lucy said...

Looks so fun and so pretty. Enjoy!

Bobi... said...

Looks like fun! Glad they got to come visit you guys!

USA said...

You guys look great! Glad you're doing well. It looks beautiful there! Take care.

Brianna Tuckett said...

I LOVE days like that!! Glad you got to see friends cuz we all miss you guys! :)