Wagon Days

This last weekend we went on a little family trip to Sun Valley to visit Zink, who's in training in Bellevue. He's doing great. Rett's so excited about how well his dog is doing! It wasn't anything extravagant, but it has been the only 4 days off we've had together in a while. Ketchum has a big Wagon Days celebration for Labor Day, and the boys loved all the horses and wagons. We even took their picture from some actors from the shoot out they have on the street! Cute boys. This picture of the really big wagon train looking thing is called the "Big Hitch". It's what they used to carry ore out of the mountains in. There were 6 wagons, pulled by a 20 mule team. They use a "jerk line" that is a rein that is 100 feet long! And the wagons are really tall! It was pretty neat. I just kept thinking, what if those mules go crazy and start doing their own thing. That would be a mess with all the people, wagons, and mules!





The house is coming along. I haven't taken any pictures recently, but it's still chugging along. They are doing finish work right now, which is the base, case, doors, shelves and stuff. Painters are scheduled for Friday and Monday. Then comes the only real work we're putting into the house. We're laying over 1000 square feet of laminate wood ourselves! Nice! After that it should go quickly with just cabinets and finish plumbing and electrical. YAY! We can't wait to have our own bedroom again. We love our boys. We just need some of our own space! We've been doing the trailer thing since the end of May! And it's wearing on us. So, hopefully we're a month or less out!