Weekend FUN...

Mama had to work a prom in Big Piney on friday night so we made it a family getaway. Brayden played with several balloons at the prom for awhile, until it was way way past his bedtime, then Daddy took him back to the hotel and they went to bed. I got there about 11:45 and crawled into bed. Well I had to move Brayden off my side of the bed and into his bed, then I crawled in. I was worried about him falling out of bed, Daddy wasn't able to come up with much in the way of a barrier on each side of the bed. Anyway, once during the night I thought I heard his head hit the night table so I inhaled loudly and sat up, Roger reacted to my reaction...it was just Brayden's hand flopping over to the night table, not his head. Then a couple hours later we both heard a bump, Roger inhaled loudly and sat up and I reacted by jumping out of bed, walked all the way around Brayden's bed before I realized he wasn't in it...walked back over to my side of the bed and sure enough he was laying there on the floor still snoring. :-) Amazing how incredibly flexible they are and resilient too. He woke up when I picked him up to put him back in bed and said "mama in bed here", so I crawled in next to him to KEEP him in bed. :-) Mama didn't get much sleep that night, but it was enough to get by. Brayden woke up at 7:30 on the money and said "mama awake??". Its better than the constant beeping of an alarm clock, but it often is earlier than I would like, especially if I have had a short night. There was a cafe attached to the hotel and so we packed up some and then thought we would go down for breakfast...well in Big Piney there is a shortage of good help, too many gas/oil field jobs that pay lots better than waitressing. The cafe was closed, in fact I think most people in BP eat from the gas stations. We went a head and checked out and headed for Pinedale thought we would eat breakfast there. We looked for a McDonald's, but that area is soooo deprived, no McD's in sight. We ended up at Faler's store at the bakery, we had donuts and ham and cheese buritos that were actually VERY good. Then we headed on out for Jackson. It was sunny altho had snowed a bit early that morning. Roads were real good though for the most part. Going through Hoback canyon was very very snowy, not on the road but everywhere else. We couldn't believe the snow they have over there. We saw a crm colored pickup parked out by the road and it was almost completely covered with snow, could see just alittle of the passenger side window rest was mostly covered. If we had 1/4 of the snow they have over there, we would be doing great. It snowed the whole time we were in Jackson, just light snow and was really pretty chilly. We did a little shopping. Brayden was most interested in cowboy hats. Had to try several on and finally mama and daddy found one we liked and it wasn't terrible expensive. I found a nice family used clothing store there and had a nice time perusing the store. We had bbq for lunch and then went to see the elk on the refuge. The sleigh rides ended on friday, so we missed out on that, but we could see them anyway. After that we headed home. Roger was feeling alittle tired so he asked me to drive once we were headed up Togwatee. Of course, not long after I took the wheel, the roads got bad, its quite something when the snow on the sides of the road is taller than the car, the road is white and the snow is blowing off the top of the drifts on the sides making the top white too. Made me hope for NO traffic in either direction!! We got through it fine and came upon traffic stopped competely for a cattle truck that had started sliding and ended up with his trailer blocking both lanes of traffic. Roger put his coat and hat on and went up to see if he could help. He found a very young man and a very old man were team driving that truck, the young man had one chain out and was trying to chain one tire, hoping that would help. Roger asked for more chains and he got out chains still in the packages. :-) After about 15 min a couple pickups with snowmobile trailers got in line and the guys from those headed up to help too. We ended up sitting there in line for about 30-40 min. A white pickup coming from Dubois stopped next to Roger and asked if there was anything he could do to help (after the trailer is moved enough to open one lane), Roger said yes, to stop by the maroon grand prix and tell his wife he was ready to go home. I got the message a few minutes later and pulled out of line and slipped my way up the hill to Roger, picked him up and left the other 9 guys there to finish getting the truck going. After all, we only needed one lane to get traffic moving, and he was sick, so it was time to get on home. I was just glad we didn't end up with several hours up there. A snow plow came to the back of the line behind me before they got the truck moving, he turned around and left. A man in Dubois (after we got icecream) said he came back down and called the highway patrol, we never saw any headed up there on our way down, so no telling how long it might have taken without some resourceful young men. Home looked awfully good Sat night.

Roger is doing better today, still quite a bit of stuff in the sinus areas, but he is working and in a pretty good mood. It was beautiful here today, 50 degrees. I had a nice walk and now it is getting windy and stormy looking. I will get some pics posted as I know that is what is wanted most, not just the story line!!