Wyoming Wedding - Indian Style

Not Native American, Indian. Our friend Skye has been teaching for the last for years at an American school in India. She got married last December in New Zealand and had her reception in Buffalo, WY where she grew up.

The Big Horn mountains are a 10 minute drive outside of town.

We were able to get a couple of hikes in while we were there. One hike brought us up to a lake on the mountain. The weather was beautiful, it was in the mid-70's. Even with these temps there was still snow on the shore.


There were quite a few people fishing on this lake by the time we were heading back down.




The reception was held about 25 minutes out of town at an Equestrian Ranch and Polo Grounds.
Skye had Sari's made for all of the girls in the wedding reception

Here is Mary in her Sari
Skye sent the girls a Youtube link to a Bollywood dance and wanted them to learn it for the reception dance. Lets just say two 15 minute practice sessions might not have been enough for this fast paced dance, but they had a blast

We were planning on hiking one more in the Big Horns but it was supposed to rain. So we headed to Crazy Horse and Mount Rushmore in SD.




And if you were wondering about Anika, she had as much fun as we did. Grandpa took her swimming for the first time. By the end of the day, she was jumping off the first step into his arms.

me, I blog

Anika is now 20 months old and she is talking up a storm. She is now putting together three word sentences, mainly starting with "me...". The other day, she got up on our bed and put her head on a pillow and said "me, I rest". Another favorite is "me, I eat".

She has grown so much in the last 6 months. This is from a couple weeks ago. Still not a ton of hair, but more than she had at her first birthday.

This is from last November.

Birthday!

Anika turned 1 on October 6th which was a Tuesday. We were all set to have her birthday party that Saturday, but Mary came down with the flu, the Dr.'s thought it was H1N1. Luckily neither Anika nor I caught it from her. We had to re-schedule the party for a later date, it was a good thing that on her actual birthday we did a small little celebration with just the three of us.


We re-scheduled the party for the 25th. The cake was re-ordered and they sent along a special little cake just for Anika.


Anika loved her cake, she devoured it and wanted my piece as well.
Surprisingly she stayed pretty clean. (I will post the video when I can, for some reason it won't upload it, it might be too large)


Here she is looking at Elmo and not sure what to make of him.


This is what a sugar hang over looks like. She was heard muttering to her self "I will never do that again".

Some recent pictures

Trying to get ready for chili fest left me little to no time to put towards organizing any photos. I have uploaded a bunch from September through the first week of October to a web gallery.

Here are a few of my favorites:

For some reason when she sleeps she likes to sleep with her behind up in the air
Loving bath time
Playing with her toys
Looking cute in her hat
She loves her Grandpa

I'm one year old!

Anika turned one today. They had a party at day care where apparently she devoured her piece of cake. We are having a birthday party for her this Saturday, but of course we needed to celebrate today as well.

Here is a photo of her wearing her party hat
Of course there needs to be a birthday cake, or cup cake in this case.
There is no picture with lamb this month. Anika is on the move and she just wouldn't sit still for the photo.

Lately she has been trying to climb the stairs. She would get up to the 2nd stair, look back at you and dive into your arms. Today, she decided that she is a big girl and just kept motoring up the stairs until she made it to the top. She is a crazy little girl.

State Fair

Mary had workshop this past week from Mon-Thur. I took a vacation day on Friday, we dropped Anika off at daycare and headed to the Fair.

Everyone has their favorite foods of the fair, Mary and I are no different. Mary goes for the Tom Thumb mini-doughnuts, for me it is a Pronto-pup. We also had walleye on a stick, a cone of Sweet Martha's cookies, pot stickers and also a couple of new foods. Caprese on a Stick which consisted of cherry tomatoes, fresh mozzarella balls and basil leafs, topped with oil and balsamic vinegar. My new favorite food at the fair beer on a stick. Yes, beer on a stick. Leave it to Summit to find a way to put beer on a stick. You don't believe me, just check out the photo below.

The three beers they put on the stick were the Extra Pale Al, Oktoberfest, and a new one Red Horizon. I walked around with them while we looked at other fantastic fair offerings. I had about half a dozen people ask me about the beer on a stick, not one of them asked me how tall I was. Usually I get that many people commenting on my height during a trip to the fair. I guess I need to start carrying beer on a stick around.

Mary found it interesting that people are always trying to find a way to put food on a stick, yet at the fair the caramel covered apples come in a bowl.

Anika at 11 months

There has been plenty of crying in the Zilge household lately. No, it isn't Mary crying because school started up again. That would be Anika, she is on the move. She has started to crawl and pull her self up on furniture. Which also means she is falling and bumping her head.

We are trying to get Anika ready for the upcoming football season, so far the two-a-days have been going well.