Wild Wild West

We had fun last week talking about the Wild Wild West. We talked about fun things like cowboys, horses, and pioneers (perfect for the holiday over the weekend!)

This picture was supposed to come later in the post but I accidentally deleted it. I love this baby!One of the days we cooked cookies in the dutch oven to talk about how they used to cook their food. They turned out ok.We also went to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point. The girls always love going here and had a blast riding the horses. We also had a fun wagon ride. We were luck enough to go with our cousins Elyse, Elizabeth and Emily so that made it even more fun!
Here's Sophia and Bubs.Mabel was pretty content to hang out in the stroller. We also had a Pioneer Treasure Hunt (thanks again for all the ideas Lauren!)We even found some gold at the end! We also had fun dressing up like cowboys and watching a movie about being a cowboy.
Mabel even took a turn at trying on the attire. She wasn't too fond of it. On Saturday we went to visit one of Doug's friends and coworkers in Flowell, UT. For those of you who don't know where Flowell is, it's about 7 miles west of Fillmore. We stopped in Fillmore to tour the Territorial Statehouse. Also for those of you who don't know, Fillmore was the first capitol of Utah and this was supposed to be the capitol building. Truman Angel (the same man who designed the Salt Lake Temple) designed this building as well. It was supposed to have 4 wings with a big dome in the center. This south wing was the only thing that was ever built before they decided to move the capitol to Salt Lake City. Kind of interesting. Here's the girls inside.Enough of the history lesson. Moving on. We had a pretty good time in Flowell. It happened to be their town festival at the time. We played a lot of fun games and had a good time riding the bukcing bronco. The girls also got to ride another pony. And she was a beautiful one too.They also had a petting zoo and some fun carnival games. There also was a huge lava flow on the outside of town. In the middle of the flow there's an ice cave that we hiked to. The girls were only a little bit hot walking over the hot black rocks in 100 degrees. It was crazy how desolate it was. It was also a little weird to see these huge black rocks in the middle of farm land. Here's Sophia at the cave.Here's the girls getting ready to get prizes in the straw dive.To continue on with talking about cowboys and the pioneers, we spent the rest of the weekend at Doug's parents pioneer home in Wales. We took a drive to the Manti temple to talk about how the pioneers built that temple. We also stopped for a snow cone. These babies were only $.75! What a steal! The girls were totally in heaven.
Overall it was a great week and a great weekend!