Jackson Hole

While Briant's parents were visiting us this past week, we decided it would be fun to go to Jackson Hole, WY.  Andrew's first trip out of the state!  I was a little skeptical about Andrew and worried he wouldn't do well on the drive (he had had a few episodes of not doing well in the car lately), but all in all he did VERY well!!!

Actually this is what he did the whole way up there.

We had lots of fun there.  We mostly just walked around and looked at the shops and saw the sights.  We also had had a yummy pastry from a bakery, and saw the Great Harvest store too. Briant and I went to 3 or 4 Art Galleries.  I didn't get my fix seeing the photos at the fair this year so I absolutely loved all the photos and paintings in Jackson!  Thank goodness for the stroller that the Bailey's let us borrow!  Thanks again!!!

Andrew is getting more and more alert.  I absolutely love the facial expressions in all our pictures.

We got pictures in all the traditional places...

Then we drove out a ways to get some pictures by the Tetons.  This is what Andrew did on the way out there...

...read Chugga Chugga Choo Choo...

"engine black and red caboose"

...watched himself in the mirror above his car seat...

... he really was intrigued with that handsome baby staring back at him...

When we got there we took a few pictures:

Then, we fed Andrew.  Another cute alert facial expression after he ate...

We had such a great time with GG and Pop Pop in Jackson!!

And Andrew did too... even though he doesn't look happy in any of the pictures they got with him.

When we were about 30 minutes from home, Andrew let us know he had had enough of being in his car seat.  He wasn't hungry, just bored (and it was dark, so he couldn't see anything).  After trying everything, as a last resort I got out my phone.  It has a flashlight app with some cool features, one of which is called disco. It changes colors every few seconds and has a spinning pattern.  Once Andrew saw it, he was fascinated!  He watched it for a good 15 minutes, & every time it turned red, his eyes would open bigger.  It was really funny, I couldn't stop laughing.  He does like to watch TV...
After he got tired of that we just turned on the flashlight and showed him a book.  He loves Tugga Tugga Tug Boat too. (Thanks Julie!!)  I think he's going to like reading!

Ha!  The things we do for our kids so they don't scream in the car.

Another cute one of Andrew chill'n sometime during the week...

Love that boy!