CABIN FEVER

We get bored around here. Lately, it’s been SO cold! Since it was a whoppin’ 38 degrees yesterday, as soon as Joe got home from school, the five of us and Rachel, Steve and their girls all bundled up, loaded up and drove out and took a little hike out along this fun trail that goes up the mountain, next to the cemetery, South of Green River. It felt so warm and the trail sort of runs through two big hills, so it’s perfect for the dogs. Steve and Rachel brought their lab Brutus and we brought Lady and Lucy. They were in HEAVEN!

Maggie and her cousin Naomi.

Haylie, Lucy and Connor all walked about halfway up the hill. They quickly realized that it was much harder to come back down as the hill was quite steep!

I was zoomed in all the way in this picture of Lucy…

And zoomed in only about half here… so you can imagine how far up she was!

This is where Maggie stood as I was taking the above picture. She stopped dead in her tracks and wouldn’t move until Joe went back and picked her back up. She thinks she runs the show here…

Haylie told me she was pretending she was holding baby Simba up on the big rock, like in Lion King. Silly silly.

I remember reading Rachel’s blog last year, and thinking she was absolutely out of her mind, CRAZY to take her kids out in the freezing cold (literally). She would blog about how the wind was blowing super hard but the sun was shining, so she’d bundle her kids up and they’d go out walking.
Living in Wyoming has definitely changed my mind about Rachel being crazy because I understand now. We’ve been told that this winter is super mild compared to most too, which blows my mind! I cannot imagine it being colder. And it seriously felt warm yesterday, even at 38 degrees. BUT- as soon as that sun started going down, the breeze suddenly turned frigidly cold and we had a few whiny kids wanting to get back into the car!

PLEASE COME SOON, SPRING!!!!