Thanksgiving

Our lovely Thanksgiving Lunch!  We had the dinner cooked, devoured, and cleaned up by 1:00!  The boys ran in the Gobble Wobble at 10:30 and the girls got everything ready.  Eric came in 3rd overall in the 2 mile run and came home with a pumpkin pie.  Andy and Brian ran the 4 mile race and Peter and Eric ran the 2 mile race.

This year Andy's birthday happens to fall on Thanksgiving Day.  We put candles in his Coconut Cream Pie.

He got lots of nice presents including a bluetooth speaker for his phone, powerade, pringles, beef jerky, chocolate, cereal, and a BYU Football memorabilia book.

The family humored me and we took a quick little history jaunt in the afternoon.  I've been typing in a lot of oral histories of this area at work and I recently read one that was about a very small town called Neiber.  It was a stage coach station from the early 1900s until Mary Neiber's death in 1923, but quickly faded away by the time the railroad came through.  I had the GPS coordinates of a small cemetery, which was all that was left and it was only about 15 minutes outside of town.  So we put the coordinates into Google Maps and drove away.  We found it on top of a hill. It was a short hike to the top of the hill and we had to dodge millions of small cacti.  It was a beautiful view of the stark landscape from the top. 

This past week Lucy has started her basketball season.  Brian helped coach the first two games as the coach was out of town.  They look pretty good and have won 2 out of their 3 games so far.

Lucy in motion shooting the ball during warm ups before the game with Brian watching.

Sport filled weekend

Lucy has been working hard on her volleyball skills.  Her team played two games back to back on Thursday and won them both.  She is one of the smallest on the team, but packs a big punch...or serve I should say.

Lucy in her ready stance--getting ready for the serve.

The Worland Warriors played the Powell Panthers on Friday.  Powell has been doing pretty well and we fought well against them, but lost 21-14. 

It was a slightly chilling evening, but the littles had fun sitting by their friends.

Me and Lucy selfie

Me, Ellie, Lucy

Conference Weekend Happenings

This General Conference weekend started off with a trip to Cody to watch Andy and the Worland Warriors play football.  Unfortunately they lost by quite a lot!  Andy got in a good block that resulted in a touchdown for us, but it wasn't quite enough. It was a beautiful night in Cody, however.

On Saturday Eric had a cross country meet in Thermopolis, only 30 minutes away from Worland.  Brian went to see him run and he was looking great!  He got to run amid the beautiful red cliffs of Thermop at the very hilly golf course.

Here he comes rounding the corner!

Thermopolis Golf Course

Meanwhile back at home I watched the first sessions of General Conference with Peter and Lucy and Macy and Fiona.  Brian and Eric made it back from Thermop in time to catch the second half of the session.  Andy stayed at the cross country meet to watch his friends run varsity.

Lauren shared this sweet photo of Van watching his first conference:

And here are a few more Van pics, because I'm a Van Fan!

My Fav one!

Daddy and baby are TIRED!

Accomplishment of the day, everyone stayed awake during both sessions of conference!!

Peter and Myles Trombley

Macy Trombley, Lucy, Fiona Trombley and Andy on the couch

Looking forward to tomorrow's sessions.  Lucy is going to leave with the Trombley's after the first session tomorrow to go to the Star Valley Temple Open House.  She is soooo excited!  She gets to stay overnight in a hotel and everything!!  Star Valley is about 5 hours away from us and so we have not found a time to go that wouldn't interfere with football and cross country.  We are happy Lucy will get to go!

Homecoming 2016

HOMECOMING at Worland High School.

Each class at the high school does a skit.  Andy was part of the sophomore skit, he is Luigi, the one with the green cap and mustache in their skit.  You can view it by clicking here:Sophomore Skit


The parade came next and the rain stopped so it wasn't wet:

Andy with a mustache

Eric on the cross country float.  He is on the very back right edge.

The football game was against Jackson.  It was REALLY rainy, but we prevailed and won!

Andrew is #12

You can see the 2 from his #12 on his uniform.

Babies and scouts

Eric participated in a scout "camporee" this weekend in Thermopolis.  Brian took Peter and they had a great time.  Peter was very proud that Brian joined in the tug o war and his team won.

Eric got to instruct the cub scouts on bear safety.

Of course Eric is wearing a Studio C shirt!

Other things that happened this weekend:

• Worland Warriors played Buffalo at Buffalo.  Andy started on offense again and they won 28-21.
• Eric ran a cross country race in Cody.  He came in 55th out of 80+ runners.
• Lucy played her first volleyball game and won.

Labor Day

We decided to not sit home and do nothing on Labor Day today.  We got up early and drove a little over two hours to Sixth Crossing, which is the site of the Willie Handcart rescue.  We met another family from our ward there which was an awesome coincidence.  The kids all pulled and pushed handcarts and Andy showed us where he camped when he went on Trek last year.  We saw a mom Moose and her baby and a giant crane.  There is a brand new visitor center there and it is really nice.  We watched a movie about the Willie handcart company and got the tour from one of the missionaries there.  It was really powerful for me, I felt the spirit of sacrifice those pioneers had and felt the importance of what they did. 

From there we went on another hour to Martin's Cove.  This site is much bigger than Sixth Crossing and has more buildings and things to see.  We didn't have as much time to spend here since we had to get back for Andy to go to football practice.  We saw Devil's Gate and Split Rock Mountain.  We really wished we would have had time to hike to Martin's Cove, which is about 30 minutes by foot passed the Visitor Center.  There is where many of the pioneers are buried and on the Sweetwater River bank the church has put up 4 large statues of young men representing the four young men who carried most of the Martin company across the Sweetwater.  We will definitely need to go back.

This is the Sweetwater River at Sixth Crossing.  It's called Sixth Crossing because that's how many times the Pioneers had to cross the Sweetwater by the time they got to this spot and were rescued.  This is near the spot we saw the moose and her baby and the crane.

This is a shot from the Visitors Center at Sixth Crossing looking out toward the Sweetwater River.

This is Martin's Cove and Lucy and Peter thought they were funny pretending to be a part of the statue!

Lucy really liked the handcarts and wanted to push them all day long!

The wind was REALLY blowing hard!

I have to sneak photos of Andy, he doesn't like me to take them.

It was a great time today and well worth the 6 hour round trip!

It's a win!

The Worland Warriors won there first game of the season against Lander 16-14!  Andy was a starter and did well!  It was a beautiful evening all around!

The cheerleaders looked great as well, but I really missed seeing Emma down there with them!

Peter and me selfie at the game

Petey and Ellie were hamming it up in the bleachers

#12 for the win

Eric also ran in his first Cross County meet and did well.  We didn't get any pictures of him.

Meanwhile in Utah, Audrey flew in for the weekend and got to spend time with precious Van!  

Those eyelashes and cheeks!

To top off the weekend BYU got a last minute win against Arizona!  Great way to top off the week!