Real World: Wyoming; Day Three

Breakfast at one of our lovely kitchen tables at the Kingfisher Bend Ranch! The living area is behind the kids ... a couch and a chair. Down the hallway are the other 2 bedrooms which we don't even use but they are great for the kids to play in.

A wicked cool tree out our back door.

Joel is already in ART MODE, drawing pictures of different birds and animals we see.

The view out our back door.

Had a showdown with the high-falutin' washin' machine. I'm used to beating my clothes on a rock, so this computerized contraption was hard to figure out.

The managers, who are living in a residence ATTACHED to ours (poor people!), gave us a tour of Bear River Beach, which is about a half mile walk from the lodge.

Then there was horseback riding for all in an arena. We'd never been before, so it was amazing! Even Michael got on a horse for a little bit!

Learned a new term: mate-poaching. Ladies (and gentlemen), don't try to poach my hot cowboy mate, m'kay?

Michael made some strawberry juice.

Grandpa and Grandpa on the front porch.

To Salt Lake City for a rental car for Daddy since he works 40 minutes from where we're staying. Target stop for decent shoes for Eva, then WalMart stop for fishing poles.

Aron's Buick Regal. He says the Mommyvan could take it in a race no problem. We'll test that theory later.

Pizza casserole for dinner, and watching deer out the back kitchen windows and door. 

Real World: Wyoming; Day Two

Breakfast at the hotel, then ...

... driving, driving, driving. And on the way we saw Abraham Lincoln in Wyoming. And he did NOT look happy that there was still snow on the ground.

But Michael loved making a huge snowball, and the kids had a teeny snowball fight with their dad.

Pretty soon after we saw a Budweiser plant and were dying to stop, but you know how it goes. Gotta get to the destination before dark.

Subway for dinner, Smith’s for groceries then 20 minutes south of the main part of Evanston, WY to our place, the Kingfisher Bend Ranch. HIGHLY recommended. We’re in the “lodge” … a 4-bedroom place twice the size of our house. Watch out for cougars (not me!) and bears. 

Our dining and living area. Note the rockin' sunset and the lack of shades so you can always see the gorgeous view, except at night when it's PITCH BLACK.

Looking from the dining area into the kitchen, where I will be spending  much time.

Upstairs ... foosball table, little satellite TV, stuff for the kids to do.

The rest of the upstairs (to the right is the hallway that leads to our rooms; we chose the upstairs for sleeping so Aron could get ready for work at the butt-crack of dawn downstairs). Note the cool Yoda.

Mommy’s happy once the twin beds are pushed together for minimal falling out of bed. Pushed our bed against the wall so we don’t need that worthless bedrail for Sam. 

Ever seen two bunk beds pushed together? Still one bed is unused because Eva and Callie snuggle up together. Eva wants to sleep with us like she does at home but there's no room :-(

Real World: Wyoming; Day One

Driving, driving, driving. 

Kansas City to Denver today

Daddy's driving day started with calls from the job site

Sam likes to dictate with his Skinny James meat stick

The naughty kids crammed in the back.

A stop at Mickey Ds in Hays, Kansas (notice no socks on Eva!). If you  play video games standing up, you won't get fat!

Denver Embassy Suites and Mommy needs a cocktail. For some reason Daddy was given TWO, like his life on the road with all the kids was that much harder. Parental Discrimination, is all I’m saying.

Wendy’s for dinner and some swimming. Mommy’s first time in a sauna. Felt just like Kansas in the summer.

 Bedtime: all snuggly after some time spent jumping on the beds. The girls slept in bed together even though Eva usually sleeps in her twin bed pushed up to our queen at home (there was barely room for Aron and I and Sam in our double bed!). Looks like we might soon just have one kid in bed with us.

Michael wanted to sleep in the chair instead of in the sofabed with his brother.

Will post Day Two as I get sporadic Wyoming internet access!