Wyoming!!!

We went to WY last weekend...and WOW it was a lot more fun then I expected (Don't tell Elliot I said that!) First things first….I forgot to charge my camera battery so I only have a few pictures and they were taken with my phone so they are not amazing quality but they are better then nothing!!!

We got there at like ten. When we pulled up the lights were on in the house which surprised me because I was expecting people to be asleep or watching a movie like we do in Oakley. But WOW I was way off!! We walked in and Bob (Papa) greeted us. Then we went up stairs and Grany, Michelle, Elliot’s other aunt (I forgot her name), and a few cousins were all there talking and laughing. We stayed up till midnight talking and laughing. It was so much fun. The next morning we woke up and HOLY COW!!!! It is pretty there…I had no clue! My Dad was right…..Starvally was the part WY stole from Idaho =)

Anyway….we had biscuits and gravy for breakfast (I don’t like sausage but I ate it anyway…and it was pretty good).

Then Elliot and I went 4-wheeling. I was a little scared at first because I haven’t driven a 4-wheeler for YEARS. Also last time I did I hit the side of the dirt wrong and tipped it up on its back wheels…and almost killed Ronda and Haley (okay so didn’t almost kill…but it did scare us!!) But once I got on I remember everything and it was SO much fun!!! We spent almost ALL day on them.


For dinner we went to the FAMIOUS cheese factory…well…it has a new owner and all I will say is don’t waste your money or the fat it will give you!

Sunday we went and visited the Jenkins side. We went to Grandpa Jenkins’ and all of Elliot’s aunts and uncles on that side were there. Grandpa Jenkins’ house is small so when his kids come to visit him they bring their camper trailers. We were all out in one trailer (all nine of us) when the wind started to blow. It was blowing HARD, the trailer was shaking and moving but we just kept talking. When we got out of the trailer to go see the new elementary (Elliot’s uncle Chad is the principal there) we went to the cars and saw that a HUGE branch of the pine tree fell. (Sorry I didn’t have my phone so I couldn’t take any pictures). But if it would have fallen a foot more to the right it would have landed on Uncle Chad’s car, if it would have fallen to the left it would have crushed the garage or if it would have fallen the other way it would have it the house! It was CRAZY that it fell the way it did to do NO damage. WOW!!!

We went and saw the elementary school…it was an elementary school nothing to exciting. Then headed back to grandpas, and the men cut the branch that fell so they could move it out of the way of grandpa’s car. While they men were doing that us girls stayed in side (it was COLD and rainy) and made popcorn with marshmallow on it. It sounds interesting…but it was GOOD!!! We took 3 bags of microwave popcorn and popped it. Then melted a bag of mini marshmallows and a stick of butter (as you would if you were making rice crispy treats) and then dumped it all together in a big bowl. As if butter popcorn isn’t fatting enough…but it was delicious.

By this point it was almost 9 and Elliot and I hadn’t had dinner so we went back to Granny’s and Bob’s. We made sandwiches and watched Law & Order: SVU till I fell asleep (early). Then we both went to bed.

Monday we got up cleaned up and just relaxed until we decided to leave. On our way home we stopped by Grandma Linberg’s (Elliots great grandma). I had never met her…so that was nice. Then we drove home.

When we got home we decided we didn’t want to sit at home (it was like seven so it wasn’t really late). We headed over to movies 8 to see a move but EVERYTHING was sold out till 9 and that’s just to late for me to go to a movie on a work night. So we went to nickelcade, it was LOTS of fun!