Sheridan, Wyoming

During our Wyoming vacation, we met up with lots of family in Sheridan and had a family reunion. The rodeo was in town that week as well, so we got to go to the rodeo one night and then watch a big parade the next morning. It was a lot of fun!

 Family picture

The whole Eckerdt family 

 Walking across the sky walk at our hotel

Enjoying a popsicle while waiting for the parade 

Here comes the parade!

Little Bighorn Battlefield

While in Wyoming, we decided to drive north to Montana to the site of Custer's Last Stand at the Little Bighorn Battlefield. Phin had fun walking around the battlefield and checking out the museum and gift shop. It was very hot there that day!

Crazy Woman Creek Cabin

We spent several days of our Wyoming vacation at Crazy Woman Creek Cabin in Buffalo.  Here are many pictures of all of the fun Phineas had while we were there:

The Cabin

 Swinging with Oma

 Phineas loved the hot tub and spent a lot of time in it!

Playing horseshoes with Jon

Having a cowboy nap on the grass...

Well, not really napping!

Playing whiffle ball,

shooting a slingshot, and

roping cattle!

Whittling kindling,

and climbing a cave wall before smores.

Riding in the rental car (a lot - we did 1300 miles!), and

driving it!  (What?!)

Tuckered out.

The Crazy Woman Cabin crew.

Flying to Wyoming!!

Earlier in July we went to Wyoming for a family reunion.  We flew out with Aunt Julie and Jon; here are some pictures of our flight out to Denver.  Phineas enjoyed watching everything, and took to calling the trucks on the tarmac "zippers and zoomers."  Most exciting, once in Denver we got to ride a shuttle bus to the rental car agency!

Mother's Day 2014

It was a beautiful Mother's Day this year so we went to our old stomping ground - Spruce Mountain - for a hike and then went to Mom's favorite ice cream place, John's Ice Cream in Liberty.  It was a fun afternoon!

Spruce Mountain in February

Oma and Aunt Julie came up for a quick visit last weekend.  Saturday was a wonderful warm February day, with sunny skies and temperatures in the low 40s.  We decided to head up to one of Phineas's favorite places - Spruce Mountain - for a winter hike.  It was a lot of fun!

Cookies

Here's Phineas, "helping" Mom make cookies.  Juno is trying to "help," too.

Merry Christmas!

We had a nice Christmas morning here in Rockland.  Phineas opened his stocking and then we all opened presents.  Phineas was very excited by some of the toys in his stocking and elated to get the Lego Town Square set, which he started building as soon as we let him.  Then we went down to the trap tree for a picture with everyone who was here.

Baking Christmas cookies

Phineas and Mom baked some sugar cookies on Sunday.  And, of course, Juno didn't want to miss out on the fun!

Farnsworth Sculpture Garden

Here are Phineas and Jen posing in front of the 'LOVE' sculpture outside the Farnsworth!

Dorothy's Tornado House

Oz fever has taken over Rockland with the Farnsworth Museum's Wizard of Oz exhibit.  They even went so far as to create a scaled down version of Dorothy's house after it landed in Oz.  It's quite the piece - intricate and very detailed!  

Portland Head Light

A few weeks ago we went to Portland Head Light to visit some family.  Here are some pictures of Phineas checking it out!