Pine Creek

Sunday night we drove back to my parent's house in Wyoming.  Time to start heading home.  But first, one last day to play with grandpa and grandma.

Monday, we headed back up to Pine Creek, the canyon by their house.  Christina got to drive the 4 wheeler the whole way.  Hold on Daniel.--

 Playing in the pond part of the creek--

 Lex had fun trying to get the kids wet while they made dirt castles.--

 Christina and Daniel--

 Amanda making her dirt castle.  Sand is much easier to work with.--

 A little boy's heaven--

 Lex kept going over to shake off by my mom.

 And Ethan slept through it all.--

 Samantha decided she didn't like her pants getting wet.--

 So she took matters into her own hands--

 Gotcha Mom!

 Daniel showing me a cool rock he found--

 Daniel after falling in the water.  You can't tell me he didn't enjoy it.

 The kids decided to have fun running across the pond.  Samantha couldn't pass that one up.

Just as we got back to my parent's house to clean up, Daniel added some fun to the mix.  He cut himself on his hand with a steak knife.  He was completely embarrassed about it.  We wrapped it in plastic wrap (great first aid trick we've used for a while now--the blood doesn't stick to it) and headed off to Montpelier, ID to the ER.  A 30 min drive.  I can tell I've been through a few things because I stayed calm through it all.

That was by far the fastest ER visit we've ever had.  In and out in 30 minutes.  The ended up not doing stitches, just steri tape strips to put it back together.  We almost made it without going to the hospital or doctor's on our trip.

 Tuesday, July 19th, we loaded up the car to begin the drive back.  Grandpa took some of the kids on one last ride before we headed back to Colorado.