Here is Chester and Marge with Elder and Sister Wrigley who were our camp hosts.

How about this Wyoming sunrise at the Cove?

Here is Chester and Marge with the host of our campground, Elder and Sister Wrigley.

Martins Cove Wyoming

Chester and Marge were privileged to be the Trail Bosses on a recent trip to Martins Cove in Wyoming. Going to the 'Cove' was a youth conference for the Battlecreek 9th Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. What a great trip. Many fond memories of this trip. This was their third trip to Martins Cove and they loved it.

Marge and Chester and girls 4x4 in Murdock Basin

Marge with the girls and the whole Famdamily

Today June 6 2008 Chester and Marge received some wonderful news. Gretchen and Aric announced that they are PREGNANT!! Chester and Marge will soon be Gramma and Grandpa Gump! Mrs Gump was jumping up and down and hugging and crying. We took Gretchen, Aric and Gretchen's Mom and Dad to dinner at Los Hermanos. We had nice time talking about being Grammas and Grandpas. We then went to tell Gramma O'Sullivan who was soooo excited to be a Great Gramma. The rest of the family will find out soon and we will keep posting as the news spreads.

Chester Gump's Disneyland Trip

Chester Gump just returned from a family vacation to Southern California. He has a family member that turned 50 and wanted to have a birthday trip to Disneyland. Chester and Mrs Gump (Marge) had done this for their 50th birthdays and now it is becoming a family tradition.
Chester and Mrs Gump learned a few things. Traveling in a large group at the Dinsey Resort is tedious. We met up with Mrs Gumps mother (Phyllis). She is almost 81 years old. We convinced her to use a wheelchair and away we went. Do you know that if you have a wheelchair in your group you can go to the head of the attraction line with 5 others of your group and get right on?
It is awesome. We did feel a little guilty but got over that guilty feeling quickly.

Valentines Day 2008
What an incredible winter we have had. Snow after snow after snow. Two weeks ago we had Church cancelled. The mountains look absolutely wonderful.
Kathleen and I and our 4 girls here at home are having a red dinner tonight. I wonder what Chester Gump did for valentines day? I will have to ask him.

Chester Gump is a character from stories my father used to tell us when we were youngsters growing up in southern California. My father grew up in southern Colorado and worked on a cattle ranch named the "T-Bone". He would tell stories of a young cowpoke named Chester Gump. (No relation to Forrest) Later as we grew older we relized these stories were of himself as a young man working on the ranch. With the advent of the internet I found that there was a childrens storybook character named Chester Gump too. I have wondered if my father read out of these books as a child and wrapped his personal tales around this character. I have adopted this name for this blog and I want to publish a Chester Gump cookbook too. The recepies will be based on what Chester Gump likes to eat.