Jackson Trip

John's grandfather, "Unc", passed away last year and his family had a large reunion last week to celebrate Unc. It was fun to get to meet some of John's family that I hadn't met before and catch up with some that we never see. It was even more fun that the event was in Jackson, Wyoming! BEAutiful. And to top it all off, my college roomate and her family live in Jackson so we got to hang out with them too!

By the way, I am intentionally saying "Jackson" and not "Jackson Hole" because apparently if you live there or are cool or something you know to call it Jackson. The town is offically Jackson and the surrounding area is referred to as Jackson Hole. Ya learn somethin' new everyday.

Well these pictures are all out of order now that I've downloaded them to the blog and I am too lazy to rearrange them...but here are a few from the trip.

John, Mark, Lindsay, and I took one last hike up SnowKing the morning before our flight left.


This is Mark's second cousin, Zoe. She turned two last week. Do you know how hard it is to get a picture of two toddlers while they are playing? I mean with both of them looking at or in the general direction of the camera. I figure you have all seen Mark's face so I would post this one of beautiful Zoe. We were actually at a cocktail party but as you can tell the little ones couldn't sit still for very long so we went out back to play with some sticks and rocks and stuff in our dress clothes.

This is Miss Hayden. My roomie from college's gorgeous daughter! We got to spend a few hours with them eating breakfast and they took us on a cool little hike to Sky Lake. We really want to go back and spend some more time with them!

We had a great little lunch out on a patio at the Teton Village ski resort. (Linds- what does Teton stand for again?) =) Here are Rick and Debi enjoying the great weather.


And here are Josh (Uncle CaCa) and Lindsay (Aunt Ninny) also enjoy the scenery. (They came up with their own names!)

We saw a buffalo!!! He was just walking down the downtown streets of Jackson!

We for real saw a moose! Mark learned the word moose this trip. So we bought him a stuffed moose who sleeps in bed with him at night. Mark has really started talking more and more and it seems to have cut down on the whiny-ness because I think he can communicate better. He has even said 3-5 word sentences!!! Seriously..and I'm not the only one who has heard it. So of course, we think he is a genious! =) But anyway, here's the moose.

One night John's family had a picnic/bar-b-que out at String Lake. The three of us took a little hike around it. It is beautiful and so peaceful out there. I didn't want to leave.

And last but not least my roomie and her family on our little hike. The pictures never do justice to the beautiful scenery but take my word for it, it was breath-taking! Speaking of breath-taking John has decided that Mark needs to go on a diet. After carrying the 30-some lb kid up a mountain we realized that Mark is definitly built "solid" there is nothing light about him. I kinda felt bad because as you can see I was the only one not carrying a kid! My roomie is 28 weeks pregnant! So I wasn't allowed to complain or ask to take a break...but I did. I just disguised them as photo opportunities!! =)