Wyoming weather & wildlife

Lucy and I were planning a girls weekend in Utah to meet up with Audrey, Lauren, and Emma and spend time with Matt and Van too as well as Susie and my mom.  The weather had other ideas!  We woke up this morning to the news that South Pass was closed with heavy snow.  So did we cry, Goodness No! to quote Pete the Cat.  We went northwest with our friends the Stilson's and saw wonderful wildlife and had great food at a cafe in Cody called Peter's.

In the Stilson's car

Pete and Lou, it was a little chilly

This is the Devil's Elbow in the Shoshone River, it flows out of Yellowstone

Selfie!

Trying to skip rocks in the fast moving Shoshone River

So many Big Horn Sheep!

So close to the road, just outside of Yellowstone

The bison were trying to shed their hair and were scratching themselves on the rocks, they must have been itchy!

Elk herd

Wild horses, very cool!

We drove as far as the road was open up to within 3 miles of Yellowstone National Park.  The only thing we wanted to see and didn't was some moose. 

Eric's last wrestling meet of the year

Saturday Eric and Peter wrestled here in Worland which is always nice not to have to travel.  Eric placed first in his weight class and pinned his guy twice.  Peter lost all his matches.

Eric in the red

Eric did really well today!

Andy had his opening soccer game in Powell.  He is the keeper for the JV team.  They lost 1-0.

Lucy and I watched the General Women's Meeting together at the church, it was wonderful.

Races, kissing pigs, and musicals

It's Pinewood Derby time!!  Peter researched and researched and he and Brian worked and worked and here was the final project:

We combined our Pinewood Derby with the 3rd ward and out of all those boys Peter's red machine came in 2nd!

1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners.  Peter wanted to wear a red shirt to match his car and not his scout shirt.

Here is a recap of one of his great races!

Peter had an amazing week, he got to put lipstick on his principal!

The kids had a reading challenge and if they met the goal the principal promised to kiss a pig and he did, after the kids put lipstick on him of course!

And finally to end our amazing week Lucy got to be in her first ever musical performance!  Missoula Children's Theater comes every year to produce a musical in one week with the school age kids and they do a wonderful job.  This year it was Tortoise and the Hare.  Lucy was a bunny and I got to be the accompanist and play the piano.  It was a lot of fun!

Lucy's "posse" with the Hare in the back center.  Lucy is the bunny fourth from the left. 

My little bunny!

End of basketball and more wrestling

It's sad to report, but both the Worland girls and boys lost in the state championship basketball game tonight.  They were both the defending state champions having won last year and the expectations were high.  I wasn't there, but Brian and Emma were to see it all go down.  Sometimes second place stinks!

Mid-pass

Andy is in the black uniform

Andy is standing to the right of our 6'8" center.

I stayed home to take Eric and Peter to their wrestling tournament in Powell.  There was only one other boy in Eric's weight class.  He wrestled him twice and lost both times, but still got a medal for second place!  There were 15 in Pete's weight class and he won his first match 14-10 and then got pinned in the next two matches during the second period.  They are both improving all the time and it was fun being with them today.  Lucy stayed in Worland with a friend and was oh so happy not to be going to an all day wrestling tournament.  She's had her fare share of those!

Pete's on the right

Pete is behind this guy, he takes him down pretty quickly.

This is Eric's match, he is in the red singlet. His opponent was from a Montana wrestling club in Red Lodge.

Here is his medal.  Eric thought it should be a wrestling steroid medal from the look of the guy on it!  And he mentioned that he did not want to "die on the mat".

And in closing:

Warning! Basketball overload. #welovenumber40

All these pics are from various games throughout the season.

Buffalo, Basketball, and Band

Eric performed in the middle school band concert on Thursday night.  The 7th grade band sounded good and they played one of my favorite songs, the theme song from the Incredibles.

Eric in his band shirt

Thursday - Saturday Andy spent in Buffalo at the region basketball tournament.  Brian went to the games Thursday and Friday and all of us went over the mountain on Saturday to watch the finals.  Both Worland boys and girls were in the finals.  The girls did great and defeated Douglas to win region.  The boys also played Douglas, but had a rough game and lost 35-31 in overtime.  Both teams are headed to state next week which will be in Casper. 

We enjoyed our Saturday in Buffalo, it's about an hour and a half away -- through Ten Sleep over the mountain. 

Lunch at a bbq place that was really good!

Had to check out the library and we were not disappointed, such a classy cool place!  I loved the tunnels to go into the children's section.

This is the teen section, they had cool games and colorful furniture.

Lucy loved the teepee in the children's area.

We walked up and down their nice main street and found some sheep to sit on.

Pete liked the dog the best.

This shot was in the newspaper when Worland was playing Buffalo and beat them.

This is the game against Douglas, we were sitting right behind the Worland bench and I snapped a shot of their time out.  Andy is standing on the very left.

Another time out huddle.  Andy is standing up 5 from the right.

I had to end this post with lovely Emma.  She is doing well in sunny St. George and I loved this picture she took with her friends.