Backpacking to Mosquito Paradise

For our Fourth of July Celebrations, we did what any good Wyoming family would do... We headed straight for the mountains!! We went on a hefty backpacking excursion with our other brave relatives... Joni, Clay and Macy, as well as Ben's parents, Paul, Peter, Hannah and Mary, oh and Libby the dog. It was such a great time! None of us escaped without an injury of some sort, but we all are better because of it. What a great bonding experience. The boys and Mary caught some excellent trout and we all enjoyed some "gourmet backpacking meals!"

We found a spot in the Bridger Wilderness of the Wind River Mountains surrounded by mountains where there were no other people within miles and miles of us! In fact, we were the only people on this entire lake... some people, I won't mention names... took the opportunity to skinny dip in the 45 degree water too!

The babies loved every minute of it! You can see Macy loves to attack their new puppy, but mostly Ikey and Macy just love to love each other! Pretty cute, though, it can turn violent at times, but only one lasting bite mark, so not too bad! Isaac thought it was pretty funny to walk around with the kettle on his elbow and tell everyone bye bye and then ask for a kiss.



I'm really glad he had a chance to bond with his grandparents, b/c he doesn't see them often, but he sure loves them. He has affectionately nicknamed all his grandparents "Monga" for grandma and "Poppa" for grandpa, though he can say grandma and grandpa just fine! He is turning into a little comedian for sure!

This is a picture of Peter about to cross the river in my tevas... quite the fashion statement:)

One more quick story... Isaac has a story called Oh David! in which the little boy, David, has a stinky diaper on one page and it says P.U. David! Well, Ike took this page to heart, so now whenever he has a stinky diaper he says "PoooWeee Davey!" and then he laughs and says "ah funny!" He kept us all laughing this weekend, that's for sure:)

Hope all of you had a happy weekend. We found ourselves very grateful on Sunday as we sang our National Anthem in Sacrament meeting in Pinedale. It was really touching and reminded us just how awesome our country is. Here's to remembering more often what we really have...