Summer Vacay part 1--Star Valley

Greetings from Park City! I love having the laptop so I can try to keep the blog somewhat updated as we travel, instead of saving it all until we get home. (Which is good, since we have already taken over 500 pictures and we still have a week of vacation left!)

We started off our nine hour car trip headed to Star Valley, Wyoming with a car-sick dog...once again. Luckily, as soon as he got it all out of his system (so to speak), he did great. So much for the $75 anti-car sickness prescription dog medicine we got him!

Unfortunately, Audrey came down with the stomach flu and picked up where he left off. She spent the entire second half of the car trip throwing up into a bowl. Poor little thing. :( When we finally got to my Aunt and Uncle's house in Wyoming, she just crashed.
Thank goodness she woke up the next morning feeling 100% and no one else in the family caught it! We got to spend a fun weekend with our family and their pet, Sticky Toes.
That thing sort of freaked me out the first time I saw it, but Lincoln was tickled pink to sleep next to "the pet."

Star Valley, Wyoming has got to be the most beautiful place I have ever seen. Maybe it was just the time of the year or something, but I really just fell in love with it. The kids and the dog were in HEAVEN.

I was really thinking I could move there forever until they mentioned the -40 degree weather in the winter. Not so much.

We celebrated Father's Day with them and Ryan got the father of all cinnamon rolls.
On Sunday evening we left the kids with my cousins and took a beautiful walk around--letting Kirby just run free. Beautiful.

Ever since our time there, I have this overwhelming desire to own land. I've even been looking at realtor.com!! Maybe I'm a farm girl at heart. I just loved watching the kids and the dog roam free in the country without a care in the world. It was a wonderful weekend and we are excited to visit them again soon (just not in the winter, thank you very much.)