Brisko Family

Basketball Season 2010-2011

2011-07-18T16:35:00.000-07:00

Kamri has the joy of being a coach's daughter like I do being the coach's wife... so we make the best of life! She is her daddy's number one fan! Isn't the jersey amazing!

Family pics and Kamri 1 year Portraits

2011-07-18T15:35:00.000-07:00

Family Pictures and 1 year Portraits taken by Alex Perry. She did an amazing job and I love them!

Kamri's First Birthday!

2011-01-05T14:14:00.000-08:00

Kamri turned the big ONE on October 29. She has really shown her personality as of late and boy its a good one. She is always blabbing to herself and finds herself very funny. She loves to play and plays about 90 miles an hour all day everyday. She sure does have a temper though and let's you know exactly when you are not doing what she wants you to do. At 1 year she weighed 18 lbs 6 oz... 10%! Woohoo my bug is finally on the charts. She started walking just a few days after she turned one and has not looked back since. I love seeing her walk and its hard to believe just 1 year ago she was in casts then braces. We love our little girl and she is definitely the joy of our lives.

Eating cake at Grandpa and Grandma Brisko's house.

Opening presents!

She knew exactly what to do with this horse before it was out of the box. Grandpa would be so proud! :)

Ta Da! Riding her horse "Buster". Her Daddy named the horse after she busted her butt many times trying to get on while it was rolling away. Buster is better trained now.

Kam LOVES to swim so we took her swimming for her birthday. She went down the big slide with Dad and ooohed and awwwed the whole way with a few giggles in between.

She also likes the little slide and going down by herself. Look at the face... having the time of her life.

We had some friends join us in the party. This is Kamri and Bode who is just 3 months younger.

Trip to the Academy

2010-12-03T10:07:00.000-08:00

The first weekend in October we took a trip to see my brother Matt and family in Colorado Springs at the Air Force Academy where Matt is teaching. It was one quick trip since Brian was still in high school football season, but well worth it. We left Friday night after a football and drove as far as Cheyenne, woke up the next day and finished the drive. We needed to get there in time for the football game at noon. Air Force vs Navy. AND one of the biggest reasons for the trip besides football which is what my life revolves around in the fall is my newest nephew William Robert was born just a few weeks before. Hooray! He is adorble in every way and I couldn't be happier for Matt and Heather. Matt is being deployed here soon so it was also a trip to make sure I got a hug in case they didn't make it for the holidays. Love you guys.

Matt, Kamri, and I waiting and waiting for the big game to start.

Brian, Matt and Kamri

One of the cutest little boys ever. William Robert or little Will. Check out that hair I think he already has as much as Kamri!

The new daddy Matt with Will and Kamri

Love being an aunt. Kamri sure wanted to get a hold of Will. Finally it was someone smaller than her.

Playing at the park by Matt and Heather's house

Uncle Matt is the best!

Kamri loves to swing! Its hard to tell.

Rodeo and Horseshows with Grandpa

2010-11-14T20:17:00.000-08:00

Blast into the past for a few posts while I catch up. At the end of our summer vacation we hit up the good ole Lincoln County Fair in Star Valley with my family. Kamri sure did have fun looking at all the lights at the carnival and all the crazy people. One of my many childhood memories is attending the Fair and I had so much fun sharing it with Kamri. My mom hasn't ever been a big fan of rodeos so from when I was little I was my Daddy's date to the rodeos.... I LOVED it! I'm a daddy's girl and had so much fun adding Kamri to the mix. Its official she is my daughter.... she LOVES rodeos. She would stand and clap and would get super excited if a bucking horse or bull happen to be closer to us.

With Grandpa (the real cowboy). Have you seen a bigger grin on a kid's face.

Just Kamri and I. Brian loves this picture because you can see both our wrinkled noses and dimples. Yes we are mother and daughter. Brian was the photographer so he did attend.

The next day after the rodeo my dad showed his reining horses. Kamri got to go and cheer on Grandpa. She even got to ride while he was between shows... she was in heaven. Grandpa had fun showing her off. He was riding in the warm up arena and took Kamri past all the younger girls showing and told them, "This is the future rodeo queen of 2028" ha ha too funny. They thought that was the cutest thing seeing my dad riding with little Kamri.

Loving life!

More House Pictures... INSIDE!!

2010-09-28T14:34:00.000-07:00

Drumroll please.......YES it's true I FINALLY posted pictures of the inside of my house. So by popular demand I will give you a somewhat tour through part of the house which I have painted and somewhat decorated. My next project is my bedroom which is nearly finished so you will have to wait to see the final result. AND let me tell you that I never knew paint colors could be SO hard to choose. I have one patient hubby because my living has been completely painted 1....2....yes 3 times people with a few colors slabs in between. 5 colors and many sleepless nights thinking about colors I finally have my living room the color I love. I first thought tan....nope at night it was too gold. (yuck) so then I went in the grey family.... too light, and blueish tint. (yuck!) Mind you after I painted the WHOLE thing I figured this out. Finally I went to a green family and found my color. WHEW!! I have had my bright orange wall for months... that was not changing!!! Love me some orange.

As you walk in my front door. The living room to the right and stairs to our basement to the left (not pictured). I know.... need more on my walls. Working on it people!

View from by the TV back to the front door. The half wall has the stairs (or soon will have the stairs).

View back to the front door from the dining room table.

View of my kitchen and hallway in the back to bedrooms and Utility room.

Ta Da!! My kitchen with what seems like right now endless cupboard space. I need to go shopping to fill it..... yes yes I do!!

View from my Kitchen to the dining room and living room. You're being shocked by the orange wall right now huh?! LOVE it!

Kamri's room... (still under construction) Need more pink dots and going to paint her dresser bubble gum pink. I have also had her room painted for months. Love the bright green and the bubble gum pink ceiling. Brian thought I was losing at first when I started...now he likes it (or so he says)

Her name will soon be above her crib in Pink cursive for now just visualize. (She was actually sleeping in the crib when I took these pictures) Too funny!

There people now you can lay off the "nagging" for awhile!! I'll post more once I finish my projects!

Half Marathon!

2010-09-28T14:20:00.000-07:00

As hard as it is to believe I ran a half marathon this summer. My good friend in Pinedale talked me into doing and after 12 weeks of training... blah (the worst part by far) I ran the Provo Canyon 1/2 in August. The friend who talked me into was not able to do it with me because of a n emergency so my other friend and I decided to tackle it anyway. It is definitely something that I will do again to try and beat my time. Next time Tamara you HAVE to be there! I enjoyed the competitive race atmosphere and the challenge. Who knew I could be a runner... will wonders never cease!

My baby girl was there to cheer me on at the finish line.

Sarah, Kristi, and I after the race.

Showing off our race numbers! We are so official looking

July Part 2

2010-09-28T13:58:00.000-07:00

Once again I'm behind...and yes I know its almost October, but eventually I want to print this to a book for a family photo album so here goes nothing. During the summer we went to Star Valley to spend some time with Cliff and his family.... wish we could do more of that but they live in Salt Lake so we see them when we can. We went 4-wheelering, rode horses, and just played.

This was not in SV. I just threw it in because it's one of my favorites. She LOVES her tigger that rolls across the floor. She thought she was pretty tricky riding it with only one hand.

Our family on a 4-wheeler ride up in the mountains to my parent's house. Kamri was concentrating pretty hard. She loved it and fell asleep half the time... see next pic! =)

Kamri asleep.... at the top of our ride.

This picture cracks me up. Cliff's family all on the 4-wheeler. Cliff, Keri, Bode and Ryder

Grandpa giving Kamri a horse ride. She sure does love her Grandpa!

HOUSE!

2010-08-09T16:25:00.000-07:00

LONG over due with pictures I know! We moved into our new house..Hooray! We still have lots of work to do but here are some pictures to appease some of you, aka Gina! ha ha

My handy hubby is doing the garage with help from family. Thank you Kevin, Bill, Barney, and my Daddy for coming to help. Makes Brian's life a lot easier.

A closer view, we have a walkout basement on this side. We are leaving it unfinished for a few years.

July Part 1

2010-08-08T07:37:00.000-07:00

We had the opportunity to stay at Bear Lake a few days the first of July with some good friends of ours. We had a ton of fun... Thanks Currahs! When we came back Rendevous Days were going on in Pinedale. Brian and I both had teams in the 3 on 3 basketball Tournment. We also watched the parade and attended Kamri's first Rodeo... its official she loved Rodeos.

Currah boys building a sand castle while Kamri supervised the construction process

My little boy (Brian) assisting in the sand castle building process and Kamri eating the building material.

Its so fun to get dirty!

Kamri loved watching the parade... so many things to see

Look at that form... we lost in the championship, but had a ton of fun playing.

June 2010

2010-07-17T18:18:00.000-07:00

Summer is flying by... here is some events from June.
Kamri is getting so big and growing up so fast. She is still my happy baby that just loves life.

With her dad being a basketball coach and doing camps, open gyms, etc. We spend a lot of time in the gym. She LOVES playing with a basketball and thinks she is such big stuff when she has one even it is as big as her.

Kamri with Coach Brisko

The middle of June was the Micheli Reunion at a youth camp outside of Mountain View. It was fun to see a lot of Brian's family and catch up. Thanks Patty for putting it together this year. Here is some of the "boys" swinging together. Aren't they cute? From left to right... Dave Hokanson, Brian Welper (Amber's Fiance and our good friend in Laramie), Ryan Taylor, and Brian. They had a good time together.

I'll take credit for the awesome photography skills. This is Brian and Ryan doing some syncronized swing jumping. Good form boys.

First family photo in awhile.

Look at how happy she is with her Daddy. Brian is the best dad!

Dave, Hallie, Brandon, Brian, and Kamri coming back from some fishing at the pond.

Kamri discovered that swings are the best. She loved them!

Out for a stroll

Kamri and Macie with Brian.

May 2010

2010-07-17T16:34:00.000-07:00

In May (I realize its July, yes I'm behind) Joe married Liz in Star Valley. We are so excited to have Liz be an official part of the family. It was a beautiful wedding. Kamri and I had a chance to stay a whole week in SV to see family. We picked Eric's family up from the airport in Jackson and headed "home". Brian came for the weekend but he wasn't out of school until June 8th so he had to work. Matt and Heather were home when we got there. It was so fun to see so much family. Cliff came up for the wedding, but unfortunately his boys got sick and couldn't make it with Keri. We missed them! Here are some pictures of our adventures. Of course for some reason I don't have any pics of the actual wedding just at the ranch. I think I was too busy keep Kamri happy to take any pictures.

Kamri has decided she loves animals. This is Uncle Matt having her meet Koda.

Cousin Olivia and Kamri getting to know each other. The girls have to stick together.

Kamri LOVES her uncle Matt. He played with her and read her stories.

Grandpa playing the piano with Kamri. It kept them both entertained!

Olivia and Brian became pretty good buddies in a short amount of time.

Eric, Sarah, and Olivia.... we sure miss seeing them and wished they lived closer.

Kamri sitting on a horse for the first time. She is a natural.

After the Wedding what do you do when there are lots of ranch hands around... brand calves of course. Kamri thought they were pretty entertaining.

This is one my favorites. Sarah decided she was gonna throw a calf. This is her right before she did. Look at the concentration on that face. Love it! Good job Sarah... see you would LOVE to live in Wyoming wouldn't you?!

Sarah had the calf's head while Eric had the legs during the brand. What good looking ranch hands.

Kamri with Great Grandma Hyde.

6 Month Portraits!

2010-06-03T11:51:00.000-07:00

So a friend in Pinedale, Amy Scharf with Imagin You Photography took some 6 months pictures of Kamri Ann and I just LOVE them. I can't believe she is 6 months old already. I couldn't choose which ones to post so forgive me but I put a lot up. She seriously is this happy majority of the time. She definitely loves life to the fullest! She is still a tiny little thing only weighing in at 12 lbs 13 oz at her 6 month check up, but as the doctor says at least we are getting closer to making it on the charts!

No Brace! Hooray!

2010-06-03T09:23:00.000-07:00

Well after 3 months little Kamri Ann is out of her brace during the day! HOORAY! She now only has to wear it at night. I think it was more annoying to me than her. Taking that thing on and off was a pain in the butt, she on the other hand started using it as a weapon and would bang it against anything she could find. So who knows she may miss it. She has discovered her toes and it is so cute. She loves to eat them, grab them, kick them, and play as much as she can with them. I think she is afraid they might disappear again so she better get full use out of them. She has been out of her brace for 3 weeks now is loving every minute of it. (stay tuned for more posts to catch up on our lives... 6 month portraits, new house, wedding & more)

Such a happy thing that loves to smile at everyone who will pay attention to her. She is a social butterfly already. Brian says she gets that from her mommy...

Loves to move!

See my toes everyone!

Playing Catch Up

2010-03-24T13:51:00.000-07:00

So here is a modge podge of what we have been up to the last month. First Kamri turned 4 months old and had her 4 month check-up (I know I know I'm slow...she is almost 5 months now) She weighed a WHOPPIN 10 lbs 3 oz at her check up. That's right people... 10 LBS at 4 months. We've got a scrawny girl on our hands so the doctor had us start trying solids. Well the pictures explain themselves how this went. No matter what the flavor always a wrinkle nosed and a look like get that nasty stuff out of my mouth. Gross! =)

Ewww... Get that nasty stuff away from me

Brian was the head coach for girls basketball this year and I should have been better about taking pictures, but I was too busy cheering in the stands. The program in Pinedale has been down for years so Bri has a long road ahead of him. He did an awesome job this year with the girls though. The learning curve is steep to say the least on being a head coach but he is learning every day. Kamri and I can just say we made it through season 1... WAHOO!
Can you tell who we were cheering for? We are Dad's cheering section!

Coach and his cheerleader!

We live in a great place with an awesome Rec Center. We took Kamri swimming and I don't think you have ever seen a little girl kick her legs as fast as she does in the water. She loves it. I think mostly she loves the freedom of being out of the brace so it is fun to have her play with those cute little STRAIGHT feet! =)

If anyone wants to come see us we will take you swimming too! Just have to throw one in their enticing anyone to come visit.

On to Stage 2....

2010-03-01T16:11:00.000-08:00

So we are finally on to stage 2 of Kamri's feet fixing procedures. We are out of casts after 7 weeks and on to a very fashionable brace. The first week was a little rough to say the least on getting adjusted to such a device, but we both survived. Poor little thing. Her skin was so fragile from being in casts for 7 weeks that the leather shoes rubbed blisters/sores on her feet. I can't have her out of the brace for more than 5 minutes at a time besides bathtime. So mostly I would just take it off to doctor her sores. She lived on Tylenol for quite a few days, but is finally off the drugs. It was so hard having to put those shoes back as she screams in pain, but WE made it through and I'm finally getting my happy Kamri girl back. She wears the brace about 23 hours a day for 3 months then she will just wear it at night until she is 2 or 3 years old. The brace is just to hold her feet in position as she grows, so they won't naturally turn back in.

She loves to cuddle any soft blanket now days to fall asleep. This cracked me up, one day she was playing with her toys and decided she would attempt to roll over with the brace (notice the outside leg straight in the air) she can roll over with it, but she ran into the arch. The whole thing just wore her out so she fell asleep twisted around the arch with one leg straight in the air.

The fashionable purple bar....you just wait, it will be in style next season.

TA-DA! Kamri's feet are straight!

We have to do physical therapy to teach her to stand up. She has never had to use those muscles because of her casts.

Ready for church in her white church shoes with the fashionable purple bar. =)

"Brothers"

2010-02-10T14:05:00.000-08:00

I have been helping an accounting firm here in Pinedale out 20 hours a week during tax season. My friend Tamara watches Kamri for me 3 mornings a week. It makes me feel good that she is in good hands. Tamara has 3 little boys, 2 of which are still at home, and boy do they LOVE Kamri. It is so cute to watch. She gets all the attention in the world when she is there and eats it all up. They lay on the floor to talk and play with her. Since I have 4 older brothers it is so fun to watch these little boys adopt her into the family. They get very protective just like my brothers did, so I tell Tamara these are her adoptive brothers. (Photo credit of Tamara's blog where I stole them... THANKS!)

Mason and Tyler playing Kamri.

Is that not the cutest thing ever!

Mason giving Kam snuggles

Update

2010-02-10T13:34:00.000-08:00

It's hard to believe it is the 2nd week in february already. Where has the time gone? Kamri had her achillies cut on January 28th to finish positioning her feet. It took them a whole 7 minutes to snip the tendons on both feet. Doctors are amazing and I'm sure glad to live in this day and age where they can fix her feet rather than just making her deal with it. She was one sad little girl for awhile but as you can see from the pictures she has bounced back to her happy self once again. The doctor says her feet are looking great and exactly where he wants them to be. She only has ONE more week in casts then we move on our journey to braces to keep her feet in position as she grows. I'm hoping she adjusts to the braces as fast as she did to her casts. She sure is a little trooper and has stayed a very happy and smiley baby through this.

She loves when her Daddy holds her up and sings the "superman" song. She just giggles and giggles as you can see by her cheesy smile.

"SUPER GIRL"

Her feet are now WAY turned out and up in this last cast so she can have full range of motion. I described to my dad in cowboy terms. "Dad, she looks like she is sitting in the shoots waiting to ride a bucking bronc...her heals are in and toes up ready to spur" He knew exactly how she looked with that explanation.

Playing with her toys... another look at how turned out her little feet are.

Club Feet

2010-01-20T09:01:00.000-08:00

As I mentioned in the photo shoot post to pay attention to her feet. Well here is the explanation...Our baby girl was born with her feet turned in. It was very noticable as soon as we saw her. The doctors in Jackson weren't sure what the problem was or if it was just the way she was positioned in the womb. We went to a orthopedic in Jackson for 5 weeks and did exercises with her to try and straighten them out. At 5 weeks she was referred to Primary Childrens so a Pediatric Orthopedic good take a look at her. We went down to our first appointment New Years Eve to find out our baby girl has club feet. Treatment: casting for 5 weeks, cut the achilles tendon to finish straightening it out, wear a brace for 3 months, then finally just to a brace at night until she is 2 or 3. We are now in our 3rd week of casting!! I drive to SLC every Thursday to switch out her casts. They do a new cast every week to slowly straighten her feet back out. She has adjusted really well to the casts. She has gotten stronger and now is able to kick them around and clank them together. Soon she will be out of them and we will be adjusting to the brace. The good thing is that she won't remember any of this and should be just to a brace at night before she starts crawling!

Her cute little turned in feet at 4 weeks.

Another view of how bad her feet were turned in

Week 3 of casting!

Nothing can keep this girl down. She is still full of smiles!

Hanging out in the Bumbo chair...her casts almost don't fit. She loves to sit up and think she is big stuff!

December

2010-01-16T21:23:00.000-08:00

Our events in December....

One of our favorite past times....nap time!!

Being "Santa's Favorite" in her X-mas p.j.s

Macie and Kamri getting to know eachother over X-mas vacation

Playing with the camera...mostly waiting for Dad to get home from work

Being Dad's #1 Fan!

Photo Shoot

2010-01-16T20:56:00.000-08:00

SO... I realize I'm behind on posting so there may be a few in a row catching up. My sister-in-law Heather was kind enough to take some pictures of our sweet baby girl. We did these the week before Thanksgiving when she was 4 weeks old. Now to give you some background of these photo sessions... first Kamri is not like a lot of newborns, ya know the ones you can undress and put in all the cute poses you want. Nope, she would not have any of that at all. She has been very alert since she was born and was never in the deep sleep that you could move without her noticing. Second, she HATES I mean HATES to be naked... very modest at a young age. =) We tried doing the naked new born pictures and well as you can see we didn't get any. All had to be done with her clothes on or she would SCREAM at us. Heather thought that Kamri would grow up with a complex and hate her for trying to torture her....but she was over it after a snooze and loved her Aunt Heather once again. Here are a few of my favorites but there were too many to choose from.... thanks Aunt Heather.

Her eyes really are this bright blue color. Heather only enhanced the whole picture color and didn't mess with her eyes.

She looks like she is trying to play innocent in this one.

Take note to her feet...I'll explain in the next post.

Happy Thanksgiving and More...

2009-12-02T09:20:00.000-08:00

We have had a busy past 2 weekends seeing family and friends. The weekend before thanksgiving my brother Eric and family came to visit from Wisconsin so we drove up to SV so Kamri could meet them. Matt and Heather also came up to join in the fun. We then came back to Pinedale for a few days since Bri had school and practice. After practice on Wednesday we headed for a quick trip to Mt. View before Bri's family dispersed for their Thanksgiving vacations. Kamri got to meet many more Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. Thanksgiving day we drove back to SV. This time Uncle Cliff, Aunt Ker, Bode, and Ryder were there. Joe and Liz live their so we got to see them on both of our visits. It was so fun to see so much family in those two weeks. We are grateful to have such wonderful families and don't know what we would do without them. Here are some pics from our travels.

Kamri started smiling while we were on vacation. She is still a bit stingy with them, but she sure is cute when you convince her to do it.

Uncle Matt was rocking with Olivia (Eric's little girl) when she held out her arms to hold Kamri, so they rocked together.

What would we do with out our awesome aunts Heather and Liz

Kamri and Olivia posing for with their Great Grandma Linford.

The girl cousins (on the Linford side) bonding. =) About 2 seconds later Olivia was done and tried to push Kamri off. It looks like Kamri may have to get a bit tougher.

The 3 siblings and their 3 cute girls born this year. From left to right Jenny and Macie Jo (4 months), Bri and Kamri (1 month), Lori and Megan (6 months). I'm sure they will be the best of friends.

The older kiddos decided they wanted to join in the fun too.

Megan, Kamri, and Macie

Ryder (Cliff's boy) is 7 weeks older than Kamri. Its so fun to have so many cousins born this year for Kamri to play with.

Kamri got to meet Great Grandma Hyde too!

Grandma Linda sure did love all the grandkid snuggles she got over the holidays

And of course they even spent some time with Uncle Joe

2 Weeks!

2009-11-14T15:10:00.000-08:00

I can't believe this little munchkin is already 2 weeks old! At her 2 week appointment she weighed 6 lbs 10 oz... she is growing TOO fast already. This is what she has been up to in the past couple of weeks.

She has Dad wrapped around her tiny little finger already...watch out for Daddy's girl. These two spend a lot of there evenings in this position.

She loves to show us how strong her head is and how she can hold it up all by herself (very independent already)!

Daddy daughter chit chats.

Grandmas have come to visit and Kamri loves Grandma snuggles.

Even Grandpa came to visit and I'm thinking I have my work cut out for me for staying this guys little girl.

Playing dress-up (1 week)

2009-11-14T14:59:00.000-08:00

Poor Kamri at 1 week old had to live through her mom re-living her childhood when I used to play with dolls and dress them up. Now I have my own perfect little doll....she just requires a lot more attention and cannot be put on the shelf once I'm done playing. =) She was just so content and alert I couldn't resist.

Kamri Ann Brisko

2009-11-14T14:54:00.000-08:00

Kamri Ann Brisko made her entry into this world on October 29, 2009 at 6:53 p.m. weighing a whopping 5 lbs 13 oz and 18.5 inches long. Our lives have changed dramatically to say the least once this little angel entered our lives, but we wouldn't have it any other way. We are very greatful she decided to give us two clueless parents a shot at raising her. She has been very good natured and alert. We still can't quite decide which genes came through the Linford or the Brisko genes, I guess we need to compare baby pictures to see which one of us she looks like or maybe she is just herself Kamri.

Just Waiting...

2009-10-27T15:13:00.000-07:00

Just 10 Days until my due date....November 6th. I'm working on my patience and taking it one day at a time, but if you know me then you realize "working" on patience is bit challenging for me. Hopefully soon we will have cuter pictures than this of our little angel to show off. Until then..... we wait!

Fall is Here!

2009-09-21T14:29:00.000-07:00

Fall is here which means football now consumes our daily lives. Brian is an assistant coach for the Pinedale Wranglers. He has been gone a lot and doesn't get to come home until 6:30 or so because of practice, but I'm glad he has the opportunity to do it. He loves coaching and even though he gets frustrated, I know he wouldn't trade it for anything. He loves having a positive impact on kids' lives like his coaches had on him. AND as long as he is happy...I'm happy!

Here he is with his JV team during a game. He is the one in the green shirt...school pride ya know.

The famous "coaches" stance.

If you notice the Pinedale Wranglers mascot looks quite similiar to one we all know and love. It makes me laugh because this is definitely the high school for Brian. The bucking horse as the mascot AND they play the "Cowboy Joe" song as their fight song...so needless to say I came in knowing all the words!

We ventured to see the other bucking horse down in Laramie to watch #2 Texas battle against the Wyoming Cowboys thanks to some awesome friends for finding us tickets. It was a good time and even though it ended in a loss which was pretty much inevitable at least it was a good time with a ton of screaming cowboy fans. I laughed at myself standing and screaming in the student section being 7 1/2 months prego.

Even though the pokes could not pull out the impossible I did capture the image of Wyoming beating the #2 Texas by 4 points! It only lasted about 30 seconds before that dang Texas scored again but hey at least we could say it DID happen!

Sunday afternoon we decided to go exploring again and headed to Green River Lakes. It was gorgeous and so fun to get out in the nice fall weather before winter comes and never leaves.

Only 6 weeks to go.

Brian wasn't quite into the modeling thing as I wanted him to be....go figure!

Exploring Our New Home!

2009-09-06T19:50:00.000-07:00

Brian and I decided to go explore the scenic area around our new home up in the Wind Rivers next to Pinedale. After you see these I know you will all be calling to pencil in your reservation at Hotel Brisko. A pretty rainbow at Half Moon Lake which is one of the first lakes from Pinedale probably only about 5 miles outside.

Fremont Lake which starts only 3 miles out of Pinedale but stretches for a really long ways. This is up top about 10 miles from the beginning.

Another view of Fremont Lake with I think Willow Lake in the background. So in case you wondering, yes, there is awesome fishing in Pinedale. Just one of the many amenties that Hotel Brisko has to offer their guests. In fact, we met some young hip individuals hiking on a trail that were from Long Beach California for Labor Day Weekend. So it seems to me... Pinedale is the vacation of choice!

The Wind River Mountain Range which is what cute little Pinedale is nestled against. So, now that I have enticed all of you to either come visit or hey why not even move here too! (right?!) YES! Call and reserve your reservation to stay at Hotel Brisko in lovely Pinedale, Wyoming....believe me you will not be disappointed.

And the lovely host at Hotel Brisko who has been packing on a little weight as of late if you haven't noticed. I have been harassed about putting belly pictures up....so reluctantly I am putting one up. Needless to say I put one with me in front of a pretty backdrop so hopefully it would take the attention away from the ginormo belly! =)

Hello All!

2009-08-31T18:32:00.000-07:00

So I finally have to time to sit down and make a blog, so here it goes. We are finally getting settled in Pinedale. I'm adjusting to the life of leisure right now which has actually been a harder than anticipated adjustment. I'm so used to being somewhere all the time that its actually really hard just to sit. Brian is in full swing of things here in Pinedale. The students finally come to school tomorrow and Brian is pretty pumped about it so he won't have to go to teacher inservice meetings anymore. Football has been going for a couple of weeks now which keeps him out of trouble and very busy. They have their first game this weekend in Riverside (which apparently is in the Big Horn Basin) I had never heard of it before. Goes to show there are still a ton of small Wyoming towns that I don't know. I will probably never be able to learn them all. We are happy to be living here and are adjusting to life in a small town without my Wal-Mart close by.