Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming

This past week Dannon and I went to SVR with my mom's side of the family. We've been going there for years but it takes quite the effort to get us there together at the same time! It was fun to be up there with the family and relax. Although we did little relaxing! We were always on the go. As soon as we got up there, golfing it was! Introducing...the next Tiger Woods! Dannon did pretty darn good for not have golfed for the past 6 years, give or take. Even though it's not his favorite sport, at all, he was a very good sport about it.


Krissy and Jeremy brought up Rock Band for us to play. We were jamming out all night long! I think I was even dreaming about it that night. Lets just say Sophie and Krissy are pretty much professional. Jeremy is quite the singer, and the rest of us didn't do to bad ourselves! It was rarely quiet in the house.

This is our friend Freddie. He just happened to make his way all over the house scaring us. I went to go get ready for bed, opened my closet, and this is what I found. Scared the crap out of me. At one time my Uncle Dave dressed up in it and scared TJ and Sophie! After that the motto of the trip was, "Don't leave Dave alone with nothing to do".

Ripping up the golf courses once again! I think it was the first hold Dannon couldn't resist to flip a 360 on the fairway. It was also this same day Connor got in trouble by the awnry marshall lady who saw him hit the ground with his golf club. She said she's been watching him for the past 2 days. Way to go Connor! Put these 2 together and you've got trouble!

Star Valley isn't far from Jackson so we go to this place called the Bar J Wranglers. It is awesome and my family has been going for years. We've gone so much we pretty much know exactly what they are going to say, well the introduction anyway. They feed you off of tin plates and then put on one heck of a show! These 5 guys are extremely talented and are hilarious at the same time. This year was especially funny and I'm glad it was because we had 3 newcomers with us and we couldn't have it be a let down!

Welcome! Dannon and me outside the Bar J. The only other sign I saw around there was in front of the bathroom and didn't want a picture there!

Mom and Dad waiting for the show to begin. As always, camera in hand! This is the brave crew that went and picked the horses up and brought them to the cabin. We have the horses all day long and we rode them all over the ranch. When it was time to take them back, I think everyone was too sore to really make the trek. We had a couple issues getting them back to their owners. Pretty much we had Tj and Sophi sit on the tailgate of the truck and pull them back that way! I wish I had a picture but I didn't have my camera.

In honor of the Olympics, we held our own! Krissy and Jeremy put together games for us to compete in. We had a 3-legged race (shown below), wiffle ball targets, horse shoes, the other game with the yellow ball thing, frisbee throwing, and bug collecting. Sweet huh! We split up into 2 teams and my team won!! We won ourselves a pack of new golfballs! (Perfect! I was in need for some after the last round of golf)

I don't have a picture of this but we rafted down the Snake River! Oh my it was FREEZING! A cold front just happened to come on through the day we were going down an already FREEZING river. It is such a beautiful river and relaxing, for the most part! Some of those rapids I thought we lost a couple souls! Dannon and TJ were in front so they took the grunt of the water. The rapid of the day was Big Kahuna. Not a dry seat in the house after that one! They say earlier this year it was like an 11 foot wall of water. No way, this was plenty big and scary for me!

Every night we played some sort of game. My family loves playing games, getting into competitions, and plenty of arguments while doing so! It was a great trip and fun to be able to spend time with each other. We're extremely lucky to have the families that we do!