'Tis the Season...

Last year Mason hand made his gifts to the family. This year he has decided to do the same thing and has started to use the loom to knit hats. He wasn't sure how big he needed to make it so he showed me and gave it to me as an early Christmas present.

Thanks Mason....Pretty cool stuff!

Christmas Tree Lighting

Every year at the beginning of December, we have gone down to the Capital Building and have seen the Governor light the Christmas Tree... This year was another great time.
(Keaton lost his hat but then found it again)
Sorry for the bad cellphone picture... Merry Christmas!

Halloween!

We had some friends over and enjoyed the treats!!!!

Aunt Audrey and Uncle John!

My Aunt and Uncle came into town (I haven't seen in a long time) We spent the weekend catchin' up and visiting with them.

We love you... it was so great to see you!

Yellowstone and Jackson Hole Tournament

We couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a trip out of the soccer tournament in Jackson Hole... so we took the kids out of school for a couple days. Mason isn't in any of the pictures because he's to cool to hang with the family. Actually, he didn't go because he was working hard in school and you can't miss too many days in high school. He missed out big time though because we all had a blast. When my dad found out Mason wasn't going he wanted to go in his spot.He also couldn't pass up the opportunity of visiting his old stomping grounds. We went to Yellowstone for a whole day and then headed to Jackson Hole for Brooklyn's soccer tournament. Her team ended up losing in the finals but they did awesome.

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Keaton's Birthday

Keaton had a birthday that ended up on the same day as one of his soccer games. He still wanted to go play so we had the game right before his family party, everyone came out to see him play soccer before the party. Happy Birthday Keaton we love you!

He also had a special lunch again at sizzler because of the complimentary ice cream float! (look at the size of that thing!)

First Day of School.

I can hardly believe how fast the summer has gone by... School time already.
Look at these cuties....Bridger is now in a preschool group that me and some other ladies have put together, he is becoming quite the smarty pants!

Deadwood and Warm Lake

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The kids all wanted to go camping at Warm Lake... to swing off the rope swing among other things. Since we were close to Deadwood we drove in to catch some nice fish. (a great fish fry...yummy)
While camping here we encountered Bears again... bears at Redfish and now Bears at Warm lake, this summer was the summer of camping with the bears.

Beautiful Baskets!

We have always gotten Jill flower baskets for Mother's day, but this year Jill wanted to create her own to see how well they did.... Needless to say, I was thoroughly impressed. Nice job sweetie, these make the house beautiful.

Brooklyn and Jill off to Spokane!

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This was Jill's first road trip driving by herself....(scary!) She and Brooklyn went to Spokane for a soccer tournament. With Brandon starting a new job he wasn't able to take time off to go. So they made it a girls road trip! Her team did great making it all the way to the finals.(even with lousy officials) The girls even got to go stop by Lake Coeur d'Alene and resort for lunch and a walk around the boardwalk.