Living in Wyoming and Loving It!

We have successfully hauled all of our stuff to Wyoming and have fallen into place here! I LOVE it! Of course, as I've said before, "I'll always be a Wyoming girl!" So I'm in my element. The girls are hardly home since they have friends up and down the road and with their elementary school just down the block, they have many reasons to roam about the neighborhood. A lot has happened since we moved, so I'll try to update with pictures!

Our New Home with the girls out front acting silly!


The first week here we took a walk along the Green Belt path that follows the Green River. The girl's were excited that their cousin Ciera decided to stay with us over a weekend. The river was overflowing and the girls LOVED splashing in it.










Bill has enjoyed having some projects to work on in our fun backyard.



What a huge difference Bill made in just a few hours!

Just a couple of weeks after moving in, our girls were able to enjoy their first Flaming Gorge Days. The parade was not like any that they had been to before. Every kid came to the parade with a plastic grocery bag, in anticipation of all the candy that they would collect. The girls were not disappointed, I have never seen so much candy, more than Halloween!



There is a great Splash Park at Expedition Island for kids. The girls had a great time at our ward activity that was at the park. It's open all summer and FREE. I'm hoping to take them there a few more times before school starts.





There are many fun rock formations around here! I loved showing the girls Castle Rock, which has become their favorite.


This one is Mansface, can you see him?

One of the first things we made together in our new kitchen was Daddies favorite cake. We were suppose to make it for Father's Day, but we did it a few days late. He still loved it anyway! The girls were so cute in their matching aprons. We all three have matching aprons, made by one of my student's Mom. She is very talented! I will miss working with her, she was a great Room Mom!
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Here are my blue-eyed beauties ready for their first Sunday in our new (well, my old) ward, Green River 5th Ward!

Another great thing about Wyoming, is that you can buy REAL fireworks! We went just outside of the city limits to shoot of some fun fireworks for the 4th of July. It was great fun, until Acacia was startled by a bottle rocket. She was so hysterical that we could not light off anymore without her completely freaking out. It was still fun, it reminded me of playing outside of our old apartment when I was a kid on Texas Way. The rocks and lack of green plant life brought back lots of memories of hunting for horny toads!

They wanted to go higher. . .





The sunset was gorgeous that night, as it is most nights out here!



While I was in Chicago for my annual trip for The Pampered Chef's National Conference, Bill took the girls to audition for a play. It was put on by the Academy of Ballet out of Utah. They have a wonderful ballet, that they have performed for 9 years, called "Pioneer Legacy" by Lynne Thompson. They are a very talented bunch! The play is based on a book that tells the story of a pioneer family and their trek West. The mother of the family has a very trying time when her baby dies and she is lost along the Green River! This was the first year they brought the play here, to perform it where the story takes place. They asked for local children to participate. So, both of our girls (and somehow myself, for one performance) played the part of pioneer children (me a school teacher). Here are some pictures and video of the girls.





It's been a fun filled and whirlwind of two months since we moved! I will upload videos another time.