Wyoming 2007

Alright, I finally got back here like I told Mom I was going to when I agreed to post pictures. I too just watched the slideshow the Image Factory guy made and I'm trying to find tissues around this dang place, it hurts using a napkin. I guess I need to buy more. Note to self: don't watch a welcome home the troops slide show when there aren't any tissues in the house! I didn't realize I would even cry that much. Watching that and thinking about the state of the nation and world is just a bit too much. We don't realize how good we have it most of the time.

Okay, okay - Wyoming. I'll just post a few pictures that I cleaned up in Photoshop. I took them with my new camera that I got for my birthday this year. :) This is only a few out of a couple hundred that I took! I thought these would best sum up our trip. (If you click on them, you can view a larger image.)

Mom relaxing behind the lodge.

One of the cabins we usually stay in, Blue Quill.

Grandma, Grandpa and Tim Bishop at breakfast.

Zapato, the Bishop family dog.

Taken while riding a horse, not easy!

Mom and Eric taking in the scenery.

Eric's first time on a horse since the petting zoo!

Out for ice cream in Saratoga.

Dad, as the telescope pointer.

The ridge above Mirror Lake.

The annual in-front-of-the-lodge photo.

Like I said, there were many more photos, but I hope this gives you a good idea of how beautiful this country is. If you want to see any more of the landscape, I have a lot more. I also wanted to do more with black and white, but wanted you to see how it really looked.

Back to the previous subject on the troops, I met Eric's half-brother, Mike for the first time yesterday when him and his wife, Monica, and kids came to visit. He's only two years older than us and she is our age; they have two kids, Isaac(4) and Abriella(7 months). I wish I had pictures of them - they were a riot. Anyway, Mike is leaving for Iraq very soon as an air traffic controller. He's being stationed at Fort Riley, KS before leaving and Monica is moving to California while he is gone. They're originally from California - that's where Eric's dad is from as well (Van Nuys). This will be Mike's second deployment to Iraq.

Once again, I'm so glad Jason is back home safe too!!

As for now, I might just go use the gift cards I got for my birthday and spend the rest of the day doing nothing! :) We don't get too much time off and have been working 50-60 hour weeks. The government raised the fees for most all of the immigration forms, so we are still working on the ones that we recieved in the end of July. Basically, they added Saturdays onto our weeks as well and have the option to run our overtime into that day, which we usually have to because they call so much.

Hope everyone is doing well and maybe will be enjoying some cooler weather from here on out!

Love,

Annie