Yummy!

Trying something new...

Time to lace up my running shoes...

What a difference a week can make! A couple of days after Lily turned 7 months she started crawling, got a tooth and started saying dadadadadada... This thrills Zack who is now officially her favorite person alive. Well it didn't take long before she learned that crawling is okay but the real fun stuff is up higher...so she is pulling up on everything she can find. Needless to say, I haven't sat down much lately either! If you look closely in the first one you can see her tooth!

My Birthday Roadtrip

I turned 28 years old this weekend, and we took a roadtrip up to the mountains. We visited the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, and we took a sleigh ride through the refuge. It's about 35,000 acres of low grasslands where the elk in the area come down to winter. Its really amazing to see. It was my favorite birthday because this is my first birthday that Lily has attended. The first three pics are on the way. I hope you enjoy these pictures. -Zack

Birthday Roadtrip Part II

Here are some more elk pics...

The last pic is of my best trophy.

Miss Lily is 7 Months!

Wyoming Picnic & Jeffrey City

Today we took a roadtrip 60 miles towards Alabama. We visited Jeffrey City, WY, which has become a ghost town. There are lots of apartment & townhouse buildings, houses, large schools, even an olympic size indoor pool—all deserted and weathered by time. Jeffrey City was once a boomtown with thousands of residents. There was a uranium mining business there in the60s, and thousands flocked to the community to live and work in the mines. By the late 1970s, the demand for uranium dropped and jobs dried up. People left everything just as it was—they left houses half built and the paved roads were cracked with weeds growing in them. It was interesting to see how much a place can change when no one is there to keep stuff maintained.

Amanda, Lily, and I stopped in between and had a picnic. For an hour, we could not hear or see anything but our little family. No cars, no people, no cell phone service. Just us. Its nice sometimes to get away from everything. We did see a group of 55 pronghorn antelope a mile away, and they came within 400 yards of us.

Here is Lily loving life on a blanket in the Wind River Range.
Here's the Wind River Range looking towards the Oregon Trail. This is 35 minutes SE from our house.

Having lunch at our picnic. No one around, not even any ants. I guess its so dry, they must have packed up and left.

Mule deer--decisions, decisions. Duck under the fence, jump over the fence, or pace the fence.

One of the only surviving homes on the range in Jeffrey City.