Finally Wyoming!!

 The girl's and I finally made our trip to Casper, Wyoming.  I say finally because I had to change dates twice and was fearing a third time.  We were going to go back in April during spring break but I still had frozen waterlines that made taking care of things here tricky plus I didn't want to have the care-taker have to deal with any broken lines; the second change of date was because of a horse show that weekend and then Jessie came down with strep so we didn't make it to that either and then Marisa started to have a bit of a sore throat soooo.......I was afraid we were going to have to cancel and wait till July, but thankfully, Marisa was clear of strep and the trip was a go!!

So why the trip to Wyoming?  To see our bestest friend ever of course!!  I've known Whitney and Rhen now for 12yrs. We first met here in Battle Mtn and then have kept in touch as they have made their way to Wyoming.  Both their kids and ours look forward to seeing each other every year and of course, the visits are never long enough.

So, I always make sure that the batteries to my camera are charged up and ready to go for lots of pictures right?! but as it happens quite often, I only took a few.  The first couple days there the weather wasn't that great-very cloudy with scattered showers and hail and lots of wind-totally unheard of in Wyoming. We did get out and drive around a bit to see the area and to get out of the house. By Saturday, the sun was out and we were able to go enjoy Connor's baseball game and then spent the afternoon cleaning up the garden area for the future garden.

  Here we are getting started-the kids worked hard(most of the time) and with in a couple hours we were done.

  Ta-da!!  The garden almost ready for some plants and the team that got it there!

  That evening, Rhen took the kids out fishing-I think fishing has become a highlight of the trips out there as "you can catch big fish in Wyoming" and as of recent, that's been about the only time they get to go-yes, I'm very guilty of not taking them fishing in over a year-very bad of me.  Anyhow, they got to go out in a canoe and fish until dark and Jessie caught this fish, She was the only one that caught one that night but she definitely caught one that was sufficient enough to feed us all a nice trout dinner the following day!!  I was informed that we would have to catch lots of our little trout here to be the same as the one she caught-more guilt. I did tell the girl's that there are a few places that I know of the do have 'bigger' trout then what we typically catch and that we would try to get to them. 
  Well, as usual we have to come home at some point and that day came on Monday.  Its always nice to come home but never when it means that you know it will be a while before you get to see each other again and its so far away.