What we've been doing lately

For Brian's birthday, we spent the night in Billings, Montana and stayed at the Wingate Hotel that has an indoor water park. They spent most of the time on the "frog pads" and playing water basketball. If there's water involved, it's gotta be fun.

For Halloween, we drove to Salt Lake and invited the Peruvian Posee to Frightmares at Lagoon. It was an incredible night...so much fun...It was a weekend of parties and friends.

On a drive out to Yellowstone one Sunday afternoon, we passed a house that had a pile of buffallo skulls out in front. Don't see that every day!

At this activity, the boys prepared Halloween gift bags full of Halloween treats for the Korean teachers and at a BBQ they passed them out. The teachers LOVED them! Most of them have families back at home in Korea and so they miss being with them on holidays.

Back in Cody, we like to do fun activities with the Korean teachers. Here we are at the Rec. Center about to play walley ball. They didn't like it. They prefer volleyball.

And one last post that I forgot about that happened this last summer. The whole Baker family met at the Tahiti Village Resort in Las Vegas for a family reunion. ALL the BAKER cousins made it and here they are!

The girl cousins at the bowling alley

All About the Fabulous Baker Brothers

Brandon is in 8th grade at Cody Middle. He joined the football team. He LOVES it! (Wished I had put him in sooner.) But of course, if you know Brandon, he's got to do things on his own terms and timeline. #35 - Let me see if I remember correctly his position--tight end and safety. Have no idea what that means, but I know that he's not a lineman nor the quarterback. Geez, I've got to learn this game!

He's somewhere in that mess and it's about this point in the game when I've learned to look away and pretend I'm at the spa because he's about to get a poundin'!

Okay, whew! He came out of that alive

Bradley and Brian are playing soccer this fall, as always. They're on the same team this year, so Dave signed up to coach. They are the two most fascinating players to watch because they play as if they were twins-always together. Brian is like Stockton...he passes to Bradley (Malone) to score. (For those of you who are familiar with Jazz Basketball players)

So I can always get the two of them in the same picture.

Bradley is in 4th grade and he ran for Student Body Vice President. I made these little 'tickle monsters' that he passed out for everyone to stick on their shoulders. He also wore a t-shirt for 4 days and I taped a different picture of him on the back of it each day. One of the pictures was of him picking his nose and his t-shirt said, "Pick a Winner" The kids LOVED to look for different pictures each day the campaign was going. (You know, posters just don't work--you've got to be creative!) He won hands down!

He also entered a region soccer shoot off. He took first place so they're sending us to Casper in November for the State Championship. He's SOOOOO excited. Got a trophy and all...I'll post a picture as soon as Dave sends it to me.

Our Little Quirky Town

You know you're in Wyoming when...

This horse is waiting while his owner is gassing up. Ha, ha, ha, just kidding! Dave took this picture in one of the cities in Wyoming he was passing through. See Dave's car in the background?

We were kicked out of Big Horn Lake one Saturday by this huge storm. When we drove out of it on the way home, we looked back and this is what was saying good bye to us...never seen a rainbow as colorful.

When you come to visit us, we will take you to the BEST steak house in the world!!!! These cattle are smiling...can you see how happy they are? And when you eat them, it puts a huge smile on your face too because the taste is a euphoric experience. OH MY...and I don't eat meat..well, until now! A 9oz filet with King Crab legs...mm, mm, mm!

So I had been wondering why my allergies had come back after years of absence and on one of my drives I saw this happening which answered my question.

BAD ALLERGIES! BAD, BAD, BAD ALLERGIES

So I followed the truck. It headed for the silos at the granery train station. And tada...this is how food is made and brought to your grocery store! (Barley, by the way) Had no idea...I'm such a city girl!

Wha-la! And there you have a tid bit of what goes on in Cody...fascination when you're a city gal!

All About Morgan

Morgan will be graduating at the end of her Junior year here in Cody, so she is enjoying High School life to the fullest as if she were a senior

She was just sustained in Stake Conference last Sunday to be on the Stake Youth Committee. She and her partner Corrie left for tennis state championship in Cheyenne today. She has straight A's and will be getting a scholarship to Northwest College for next year, and had a marvelous weekend hiking Zions and going to Homecoming with Harry who lives in Hurricane, UT.




She's gone so much, that I thought I had more pictures of her....hmmmm...that's a problem. I'll have her send some from Cheyenne. We'll keep you posted. They placed 3rd at regionals last week, so they should do pretty well.

Managing Mayhem

First of all, let me do some catching up of the 'Good Byes' we did during our last two weeks in Utah. and then, until I can download the pictures of the move off my cell phone, we'll have to skip to the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, which was one week after we moved to Cody, Wyoming.

We said 'Good Bye' to American Preparatory Academy (which the kids have since missed sorely once they began school in Cody)

One last 'Hurrah' at Raging Waters. See that slide in the back? We all went down that!

After 12 years, we said our final 'Good Bye' to Echo Reservoir where we skied EVERY single Monday the entire summer without missing one single year!

Bradley learned to slolam this year

Morgan's ride of the summer.

The BEST Helaman Scout Camp in the world!

Wes Murray and his watermelon warrior's mask

The BEST ward parties ever!

Wes Murray again, only that normally he's bald.

We said 'Good Bye' to our house...our home.

"Good bye" Hawaiian sunset dream retreat

Leaving behind spring blossoms....

Nope, we're not leaving him behind. He's too cute!

And just a short 8 hour drive over the hills and through the canyonlands we find ourselves in the little town of Cody.

And here we are, one week later after we've moved and it's the kids first day of school. It's 'the most wonderful time of the year'. I challenge you to find anyone who disagrees with me!

What do you see in Cody that you don't see in Salt Lake you ask? A tree of vultures. This one is one block away from our house. I wonder what attracks them to our neighborhood. I hate to think about it!

You also see deer in your neighbor's yard. They eat everything...

That's why our bushes look like this. That's as far as they can reach up

And when your best friends are not in Salt Lake, that's because they're visiting you!

And they brought with them a little bit of home to help ease the Bradley Blues.

Oh darn, it's Fast Sunday and we're all cheering a delicious breakfast!

Yellowstone National Park is literally a stone's throw through this canyon.

More pictures of the house and Morgan (which I have some how left out) are on the way! Stay tuned.