Easter

Yes, I know, finally I am posting. Usually Jan. to March is the longest, and hardest time of the year for me. I don't know what happened this year but it has just flown by. I'm sure having a busy 1 year old has helped. We have been doing just great, I can't even think of anything new. Our jobs are both good. We went steel head, and ice fishing a few times. The fishing wasn't very good to us this spring, but it is still always fun. In March I turned the big 30! We had a party on Fri. night with a bunch of friends, and then had cake with the family on Sunday. Kelly and I even got to golf 9 holes on my birthday so it was a great weekend. The last couple of weekends we have been branding, yes it's that time of year. I will get those pictures up later. I also have some family pictures from last fall I want to put up, but Tyree makes it very difficult to do anything on the computer. There is always little fingers helping you push the buttons. Tyree is getting so big. She says several words, and loves to throw things in the trash or the dirty clothes hamper. Not just anything though, she only throws trash away, or any time you change her she grabs her clothes and puts them in the hamper. It always amazes me how quick she picks up on something. She loves anything to do with cows, horses, and puppies. Next to Mommy, Daddy, and No, I think those are her favorite words. She will not say yes, what is that about? There is a new baby at the sitter's, and apparently she is a little mother hen. Baby is also one of the words she says a lot.  Easter was so much fun. We were able to go to Utah and spend it with our family. They were blessing my nephew Gabriel. The weather was beautiful, Tyree loved being outside the whole time. We got down to Hillary and Jake's on Sat., and we just hung out there for a few hours. Cami and her family were able to come up, and of course dad, mom, Cody, Cali, and her family were there too. We just let the kids play and then we colored eggs. It was fun, I haven't colored eggs for a couple of years. We had a little kit to make it look like chicks were coming out of the eggs. Cody and I had way to much fun with it. He cut his into a mo-hawk, I made one with wings, and one we called the Monsters Inc. egg. That evening we went out to dinner with the family. Afterwards we swam in the pool at the hotel. The kids had so much fun! Ransom is my little buddy, he's so cute. Tyree is not scared of the water, which scares us just a little. You have to keep a close eye on her. Everyone slept really good that night. When we got up the next morning the Easter Bunny had come to Hillary's house. Baby Gabe's first basket. Our basket turned out to be a much needed crock-pot. Tyree's basket was full of fun stuff too. She's not really for sure about peeps. It didn't take her very long to figure out how to hunt eggs. She was good at it. After all the Easter fun we went to church. The blessing was great. What a cute little family Jake, Hillary, and Gabe. Mom and Dad with the grandkids. Then we had dinner afterwards before we headed home. We spontaneously stopped at the Living Planet Aquarium on the way home and it was great. It was totally worth the $10 to get in. I recommend it. We did get pictures but they are on Kelly's phone. Anyway it was a great weekend, we loved seeing everyone.

Christmas

Sorry it's a little late but here are Christmas pictures. I really didn't take very many pictures, I think I was too busy with all the family and fun. We were so blessed to have most of my family here, and Kelly's sister came up from Texas. It was a wonderful time visiting with everyone. Tyree loves having her cousins her to play with her. We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas too, and Good Fortune in the New Year!

Thanksgiving

 Thanksgiving was awesome! We drove down to New Mexico to Cami and Jacob's house. Hillary and Jake also came down, along with Jacob's parents Mike and Dru, and Jacob's sister Amelia. It was a great visit. We hiked a couple of days, I only have pictures from Pyramid rock. The scenery and the weather were beautiful. Then we did some target shooting, I don't have any pictures of that. Of course we ate tons of food. The turkey was fabulous. Great job Cami. Just hanging out and visiting with family made it a perfect Thanksgiving.I am so grateful to have my great family, healthy little girl, and amazing husband. I couldn't be more blessed. Tyree loved it too, she loved playing with her cousins. Can't wait for Christmas and more family fun.

Halloween

Halloween was great. We carved pumpkins for the first time in a long time. Grandma Joliene and cousin Jessi came over. Tyree had fun, but did not manage to stay awake for the whole thing. The pumpkin guts didn't seem to bother her. Her favorite part was putting things in the pumpkins and putting the lid back on. On Tuesday night we went to a trunk or treat with Cali, Gideon, and Parker. There was a ton of people, she wasn't so for sure about that. When I got home from work at 6:25 on Wed. night there were people every where. Apparently the ward did their Halloween party and trunk or treat in our little subdivision. It was so fun. I am just sorry I was late because it started at 6. I hurried and put Tyree in her costume (thank goodness it was an easy one) and we got busy handing out candy. She loved it, she would stand on the front porch and yell at the people as they walked up the driveway. Then she would wave Hi and Bye. I did take her to a few of the neighbors houses, but she didn't care for that very much. Once the trick or treaters slowed down, we went and saw the grandparents. That was it for our first Halloween.

Daddy's gone a hunting...

.... and mommy too! Sorry if I haven't kept in touch very well. It's hunting season you know, so for the last 8 weekends we have been out of phone range. For the most part that is really kind of nice. We did a lot more hunting this year than usual. Kelly decided to archery hunt again, plus he drew on an antelope tag. So that gave us even more weekends of hunting pleasure. All of Sept. was just archery, so Tyree and I would hang out at the ranch with the grandparents while Kelly went out. He didn't get anything. Although he saw some nice elk, nothing got quite close enough to shoot. After that hunt ended it was time to get an antelope. Neither of us had ever been on an antelope hunt before. It was different but fun. Mostly just driving around back roads and fields until you see one. Then you have to put the sneak on to get close enough to shoot. This meant that Tyree and I could go. Antelope are a high desert animal, not a timberland one, so this hunt was in Mackay. It was a really pretty place in it's own way, but definitely desert. We bought a little camp trailer a couple weeks ago. I was so glad to have it considering it was 17 degrees every morning. I don't think a tent would have cut it. We parked at the cutest campground right on the Mackay reservoir. After Kelly got his antelope we fished for a couple of hours before heading home. Kelly was able to fill his tag. It wasn't as big as he wanted, but it's decent, and not bad for his first one.

 The next two weekends were open for deer, so back up to Gray's Lake we went. The weather was actually really nice this year. We weren't freezing and we weren't soaking wet. I was able to get my deer on the first weekend. I was so excited, a little 3 point. He's no monster buck, but the biggest one I have shot. The next weekend Kelly got his. It's only a 2 x 3, but it's a really, really nice deer. It is bigger than some of the 4 points we have at home. Needless to say we have plenty of meet in the freezer. Tyree was a trooper for every weekend. I think she loves it as much as we do. It was great hunting season, we can't wait till next year.