Monday, August 5, 2013

Worland - Summer 2013

One of our biggest highlights of our summer, was taking my parents 3 days after they got home from Moscow, to Worland!   We hadn't been in a couple of years and we were all so excited to go.   We took 2 cars (which made for easy, quiet drives).   We all went up on Friday.  Jon & Emily had to leave Monday morning because of Girl's Camp for Emily and High Adventure for Jon.    The other kids and I were able to stay until Thursday.  Heaven!

Aunt Claudia & Uncle Bruce, as always, worked so hard to get everything ready for us to come, and then treated us so kindly and worked so hard while we were there.  

Our highlights this year included:

* The little kids swimming in their kiddie pool
* Swimming at the new Worland Rec Center
* Playing Settlers of Catan & Gin
*  Having their kitchen flood one evening (a pipe broke off the back of their fridge), but because there were so many of us there, we cleaned it up pretty quick.
* Going to the Washakie County Museum
* Trips to Maverik for candy & drinks
* Laughing until we cried
*  Trampoline Jumping
* Aunt Claudia & I crying for no good reason
* Attending Sacrament Meeting and hearing my dad bear his testimony
* Quilting!!!   Yes, folks!   Finished an entire quilt, table runner and 1/2 another quilt!
*  Having Nora Graf's first birthday party - releasing yellow balloons
* Launching rockets
* Having a Morrison Meat Pie bar for dinner
* Sharing a twin bed with Hannah for a few nights. I really didn't mind it and thought it was sweet!
* Getting Russian gifts from my mom (Genie pants for the women & older girls, Russian hats for the boys, aprons for the little girls) and sucking milk with our cookies (see pictures below).






 Hannah (4) & Lucy (2)

 Becky on the trampoline with the kids
So, my mom brought cookies home from Russia that seriously taste better by sucking milk from a bowl through them.  We all tried it!






 3 Generations - My dad, Richard & Max



 Washakie County Museum




Hailey covered  in a blue snow cone!
What a wonderful, relaxing, fun, amazing trip! 

3 comments:

megadog said...

Best trip ever! Sounds like you guys got the royal treatment as usual! Nowhere better than Worland.

Kelsi said...

Every time you go there it sounds like a blast.

Em said...

Sounds like you had a nice, relaxing, fun vacation. So nice to have your parents home and be together in Worland. Love the pic of your Dad, Rich and Max. And those aprons are so so cute!