Loving on Papa

Every baby needs a good Papa who will love on them. I do not take it for granted that we have Papa and Grandma close. What a blessing that is.

Thumb firmly intact!

Prom-2008

Bo and Stephanie looking all spruced up!

Good hard work

We spent Saturday and Sunday out at the ranch helping Dad rebuild the Fir Creek corrals and fence. Let me repharse that, Craig and Bo helped and Mom and I cooked. It has been a fun weekend spent with family and neighbors and the boys had a blast catching frogs and getting filthy!
Craig showing off his skills with a chainsaw!
Setting the logs for the corral.
Sidon
Sawyer and his frog.

A trophy and a story

There is a story behind this trophy that Craig was asked to make and I thought it was funny enough to share.

Every year the Associated Logging Contractors have an annual meeting and hand out awards and such for various accomplishments in the logging community. In the past few years there has been an added category called 'The Galen Award', it is given to the individual who does the funniest or dumbest thing in the woods. The award this year was given to a poor woman who was helping her husband by stopping traffic on a main county road while he was yarding logs across it. It happened to be very cold in the morning and very hot in the afternoon so she had been in the habit of changing into shorts at some point throughout the day. On this unlucky day she started to change from pants to shorts and heard (much to her horror) a vehicle coming up the road! While in a hurry to get her pants back from their postion around her ankles she managed to get tangled in her lawn chair and ended up on her back with pants still around her ankles while the car drove past ( you can almost hear the laughter)! All the while she is yelling into the radio to her husband trying to let him know that she didn't get the car stopped. He was worried that he had likely smashed some car or hurt someone. When he found out the real reason for the distressed call on the radio he was somewhat relieved and also had a good story to tell.

Craig was asked to make a trophy given the circumstances of the funny story and this is what he came up with. I thought it turned out pretty well, although I'm sure she would prefer that everyone hadn't gotten such a laugh out of her plight!

Molly's One!!!

Happy Birthday Taters! I cannot believe that a year has already flown by. Molly is quickly becoming such a cheese, playing it up for the camera! She is my blessing and I have loved having her stay a 'baby' for me. We had cake with Grandma and Papa and Grandma Nelma after spending the afternoon putting in the rest of our windows. It was nice to spend the afternoon with Mom and Dad, I truly enjoy my family and I feel very blessed!

Molly with her own cake!
Maggie showing off our decorating skills (it is a garden)
Sidon and Molly
Molly with her new Legos! The kids were occupied with very little fighting all afternoon while Molly hung out with us in the living room!
The Whole Crew

Wonders of Farm Life

I took the kids out to Aunt Wanda's to get a baby lamb fix. Sawyer has been asking to go for the last couple of weeks. The sun was shining and if you ignored all of that snow on the hillside it felt like spring was finally here!

Wanda is holding a baby chick up to Molly's ear so that she could hear it peeping.

I love this look! 'What was THAT!!'

A day in the Woods

Craig took us on a drive Sunday, we went and checked on our lonely equipment, Jezabel and Mrs. Potts. We got to do a little four wheelin' to get there and I'm sure they were happy to see us!

We have made a tradition of taking the kid's pictures next to the Cat at about a year old. Today was Molly's big day and I took about ten pictures, I couldn't get her to smile or look at me in a single one! We might have to try this again.

Little boys on future toys!
I like the combo of girly dress and heavy equipment!
Sweet picture of Maggers and Daddy
All the girls