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!

Cousin Sam and Anne's Wedding

Last weekend we went to Phineas's second cousin Sam's wedding in Delaware.  Here are some pictures from the wedding and reception, which mostly turned out to be good pictures of Phin and Mom!  There is also a picture of Phineas enjoying the wedding cake and playing frisbee with his other cousins.

Olympic Sculpture Park

After visiting the market, we walked over to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Here are some pictures of Phineas wondering through the park and looking at the art.

Pike Place Market

While in Seattle, we went to Pikes Place Market with Oma and Aunt Julie. We looked around at all of the things at the market and Phin got to sit on and feed Rachel, the market's bronze piggy bank.

Space Needle

We hadn't intended to go up the Space Needle on this visit but every time Phineas saw it from the ground he asked if we could go up it and eat in the restaurant.  We went up but didn't eat in the restaurant.  Because it was an anniversary year there were several scale models of the Space Needle in displays.  Phineas liked looking at them, and he liked looking down on the helicopter pads.

Red Sox at Safeco Field

We got lucky and the Red Sox were in Seattle while we were there!  We had tickets to a night game and sat on the first base line behind home plate.  Phineas enjoyed watching the game while eating lots of popcorn and ice cream.  He made it to the eighth inning before becoming completely exhausted and falling asleep in mom's arms.