Wyoming Ranch

We feel like the luckiest people in the world that our good friends, the Cox's, invite us to their ranch each summer.  It truly is a magical place in Wyoming's Star Valley.  It is a working ranch, stocked with horses, cattle, trout, moose, elk, giant cranes and a resident bald eagle.

 They even invite up our extended family.  Ed and Marty finally got to experience the place that we have fallen in love with.

Matt was wowing us with his card tricks, so Elijah decided to get in on the action.  "Is this your card?" became the joke of the trip.  Everyone played along and he truly thought his tricks were tricky..... I love that boy!

 Nedra grew up on a ranch and is an honest-to-goodness cowgirl.  She is so patient in teaching my kids to ride.  My heart just pounds with excitment that they have this opportunity.

 FIRE ARMS GALORE!!!  It's strange how things that would freak me out in other circumstances, seem so normal at the ranch.

 Elijah lost interest after a while.

There is a natural spring that is so crystal clean and pure that you can drink straight from it.

Momma Moose and her baby, playing in the lake.

 Madeline and I built a fairy town.  Here is the fairy garden, (Madeline's idea)

It is breath-taking and the kind of re-charge we needed to kick off the summer!