And then we were off to Wyoming (with a side trip to Utah) for Ana's wedding. Arwen thought she should come too. I disagreed.
Umm, I came the closest I've ever come to running out of gas in Wyoming. I can't believe I did that. But we found gas in this itty bitty town with no regular gas station, just an oil pickup/storage spot for the oil drilling companies. I kind of played eenie-meenie-minie--mo trying to pick which one to fill our car with.
We stopped for the night at Vedauwoo State Park, we had our camping gear with us anyway, and it's right off the I-80, and we just picked up pizza for dinner as we drove through Cheyenne, so no cooking or cleanup. The kids were so fast setting up everything! I was so impressed.
The next morning we spent a couple hours hiking before hitting the road to Utah again.
It was so beautiful and fun.
I LOVE WYOMING!!
Backwards photo upload. 😬 We hiked some the night we stopped too, in the dark. But then we smelled a skunk and decided to head back to the tents. Did not want a run-in with a skunk with a long drive ahead and a wedding!
And here's a video to show the emptiness of Wyoming.
This was at Megan's house. We had the all-consuming need to discover who was slightly taller. It was intense and heated. 😂😂 We went there first so I could take all the kids to get their travel vaccines in Utah. Utah, thanks to all the missionaries going out, really knows it's stuff when it comes to vaccines and they are super organized and fast and just so much less hassle than anywhere else I've been. And then we picked up Ethne and Devaney? maybe, I can't remember, and drove to Wyoming after our appointments.
This was on the drive through Wyoming heading to Clark. So beautiful!!
I'm a mom and a nurse, hopefully decent at both but that's debatable. I love history and family history and blogging is my way of keeping my family's history. Most of all, I love Leo (mi papacito esposo de Colombia) and Ana, Elena, Isabel, Sebastian, Nicolas, Jubal, and Efraim (mis hijos). My other passion is also dark and rico and from South America--that would be chocolate. Basically I like to eat chocolate, eat chocolate icecream, eat frozen hot chocolates from Dairy Queen, eat Peppermint Yorks, Junior Mints, and of course dark chocolate truffles. Okay, now that I've wiped the slobber off my chin from thinking about all of that, I'll get on to the rest of my blog. Oh, and I'm trying to learn Spanish but spend too much time blogging/sewing/reading/sewing instead.
"Managing a home involves much more than keeping a house clean, organized, and attractive. These skills are important...but these skills are only a means to an end. The paramount objective is to create a setting where family and friends are comfortable and happy, where there are good dinners and good times, where there is fun and laughter, where children acquire good habits and are taught life skills and how to be self-reliant and responsible, where challenges are faced by coupling temporal endeavors with eternal perspectives, where joy through gospel teaching and living prevails, where kindness and respect reign supreme, where love is strong enough to bind the family forever, and where children are nurtured toward eternal life."
--Daryl Hoole
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.” Elder Boyd K. Packer - November 1993 Ensign
"Dear Prude,
Sober of not, I am forever yours."
-Percy French, a letter to his wife (1776)
"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."
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