Jackson Hole

A couple weekends ago, my brother and his wife came up to visit and they wanted to go to Jackson Hole. So we went up Saturday morning and spent some time wandering around the shops. I just love the western old time feel and all the fun artistic shops, you know the ones where you walk in and your afraid to touch anything for fear of breaking something. Anyways in one of the cowboy/western stores we had everyone pick out one crazy item and we took pictures.

Alex choose a rattlesnake cowboy hat. It had real rattles tied on the front.

I choose an awesome red cowgirl hat.

Mitch tried on an extremely expensive leather jacket that of course he wanted to buy.

Jaquel had the best pick with some lamb skin vest. I can't remember what kind of lamb it was but it made a pretty sweet vest!

Addy thought this store was neat because of all the animals hanging on the walls but she was pretty afraid of the bear.

After awhile we started to get hungry so we went to the little park and had a picnic and relaxed. If you look close, you can see the cookie that is still covering Addy's mouth. She sure had fun playing with Alex.

Then we went to a few more stores and ended at the ice cream shop!

After ice cream, we got kind of tired of wandering the shops so we went out to the Elk Refuge. Sadly, we saw no elk but it was still really pretty and Addy was able to run around and throw rocks into the river, although I don't think any of them made it that far.

Around 3:30 we headed over to wait in line for the Bar J. We knew it was going to be a packed house because it was the 24th of July weekend so we made sure we got there in time to still under the shade.

On the way there, Jaquel was nice enough to share her 'lipstick' with Addy.

Once we got in through the gate, we were ready to stretch our legs so we wandered down the little path. Alex and Mitch ran into some Indians and decided to make friends!

Addy wanted to ride this little horse or else I just made her sit there to take a picture. I can't really remember which it was.

There is just too much resemblance in these two :)

Enjoying our delicious dinner!

It has sorta turned into a family tradition to make it up to the Bar J Wranglers every summer because it is just a fun show. It is even funner when we go with someone who has never been before so thanks Alex for bringing Jaquel up and letting us tag along with you!