Wyoming Trip, Part 2

As I mentioned in my last post, most of Brian's family were in Wyoming for some of the week we were there. It's been awhile since all 8 siblings have been together! I think we were only missing a handful of the nieces and nephews -- it was a lot of people!

So there was lots of visiting going on!

The highlight of the weekend was the baby blessing of beautiful Scarlett (belonging to Brian's youngest brother Michael).

Here are Michael and Julie with Brian's parents (and of course Scarlett, who was just the sweetest little baby!).

And our family picture after church. There's a picture on somebody's camera of the entire group (or most of it) but I haven't got my hands on it yet.

Several of us did a little hike one evening up Cedar Creek Canyon. I have never been on this particular hike before, and it was really pretty!

The kids were great hikers and even Hannah, who moaned and complained initially about not wanting to go on a hike, decided it wasn't so bad.

A family picture at the overlook area where we stopped to turn around and head back down.

The other big highlight of the week for the kids were getting to see the baby raccoons of their big cousin Kyle. Apparently Kyle killed the mother raccoon and then discovered the two babies which he has adopted for the time being. The kids loved watching them be bottle-fed and getting to hold them!

Hayley has a thing about holding animals by the scruff of their neck (she does this with our cat all the time too).

All in all, it was a great vacation! (If you don't count the LONG drive home, which took us longer than usual because we had to make several stops, hit Denver right at 5:00pm, had Courtney throw up all over the back seat, etc. --- you get the idea.)

But it's always good to be home too!