Republica Dominica

We spent a week in the Dominican Republic at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. It was my first, "all inclusive" experience and boy, it was decadent. I feel like it was my first "grown up" vacation with the all you can eat buffets, 8 different restaurants to choose from, 24 hour room service, full liquor and beer stocked fridge, casinos (we don't gamble) 8 pools, ocean/beach front access and plenty of nightly entertainment. It was hard for me to wrap my head around the price of the trip but in the end it was worth every penny. The experience and memories are those that will last a lifetime. It makes it easy to start saving again for another trip wherever it may be. We don't make much money but we also don't have debt and don't spend much on materialistic things therefore making a splurge like this completely doable. I' hoping to fill my passport with a lot more stamps within the next few years. There is so much to do, see and experience in our lifetime. We just have to make it happen.

2nd Annual Great Snowfest

This weekend was the 2nd annual Great Snowfest for Teton Valley. It was obvious from the community support that it's definitely going to get bigger and better every year. The events were snowshoe racing, snow bike races, snowmobile motocross races, skijor races, old snow plane demos, ice skating, hockey games, figure skating, nordic races, a ski film festival and my favorite, the snow sculpting contest.

Snowboarding Wyoming!

Snowboarding is my favorite thing to do before work! On this particular day I got to experience my first "inversion," (while snowboarding) where it's cloudy in the valley and the chairlift brought me through and on top of the clouds where it's blue sky and sunny. It makes the surrounding mountain peaks look like islands piercing through the clouds. It was marvelous and absolutely stunning to experience.

Happy Holidays

They Need Us

Uniting To Make A Difference

This is sweet big lug is Cash. He loves to play and loves to snuggle. He's  still looking for a place to call his own.

The "Uniting To Make A Difference" link above will take you to the Facebook page created by my dear friend Bobbie and new friend Michelle, where the three of us post and share shelter pets who are within days or even hours of euthanasia.  We hope to inspire people to network for these animals and open their lives and homes to foster or adopt a pet in need. Please take a moment to stop by! These animals need us.

This petite skinny little love nugget is Sweet Pea who is looking for a safe and warm  forever home. 

This is Vincent rescued and pictured with his new owners and he is also wearing a sweater made for him by his new loving Mom and Dad. This poor boy was beaten, electrically shocked, cut and pumped full of steroids to become a fighter but he never fought back so they dumped him at the shelter.

Field Trip!

We took a little field trip up to West Yellowstone Montana and paid a visit to the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center. What a fun and highly informative place about these wild animals! We were able to get a close up look at several huge grizzlies, observe two separate wolf packs and even get personal with several birds of prey. Although these animals see humans they do not interact with the staff or visiting guests. They try to keep these animals as wild as they possibly can so that the behaviors observed are just like the wild animals that aren't in a contained environment.