Ready the Pioneers
The house has been unnaturally quiet all week as Ty, Michael & Danielle have been off traipsing through Wyoming pulling handcarts to better connect with their pioneer heritage. To really get the full effect, it required replica clothing.

Since that’s not the kind of thing we have laying around, Danielle and I got to work the old fashioned way. Thankfully scrubs make great bloomers.

Fashion show! Orange is her new favorite color.


Ty has taken this Trek adventure as an opportunity to buy all kinds of emergency supplies. I don’t know what kind of emergency will require neoprine socks but we are ready for whatever it is! Ty did all the shopping and packing and checking off of lists. Unfortunately it ALL had to fit in a 5 gallon bucket – including an extra pair of shoes. That proved fairly impossible for our guys since their feet are pretty gianormous but with Ty’s squishing ability the lids managed to close.

Michael, who successfully avoided all camera lenses until this final moment, was quite dissatisfied with the pile of stuff I was forcing him to pack in his pockets – blistex, bug spray, anti-itch stick, mints, hand sanitizer and band-aids. He swears the pioneers didn’t have any of that stuff and he wants a TRUE pioneer experience. He was disappointed that their Trek did not include the catching, killing, plucking, gutting and eating of live chickens like other Treks. I’m betting that after pulling his handcart for 14 miles a day that he will be grateful for his tennis shoes and the spaghetti dinner. Just a guess.
Ty volunteered to go. He wanted to make sure the kids had fun so off he went to meeting after meeting where he discovered that someone else’s idea of fun included lip syncing & dancing to Abba’s “Dancing Queen”. He gets to wear a blond frilly wig. Are you picturing that with me?!? Danielle took her camera with specific instructions to video tape that soon-to-be utube sensation. Aside from that, all the handcart families (okay, ladies) were coveting Ty due to his burliness that ensured he could pull any handcart all by himself. It promises to be an exciting adventure for all of them!

They arrive home tomorrow night – hopefully with lots of fun stories and a priceless video!



















