Skiing

Mom I am really hot and want to take my coat off!

Trophies

It's here. Rick finally got the Elk head back from being stuffed. He shot the Elk in October 2007 after hunting for 20 plus years. This was his first "Big Bull" and want to get it mounted add it to the trophy wall. As you can see it is much larger and probably the most memorable trophy on the wall. The final scoring of the horns was 343 by Jeff, the taxidermist.
Its temporary home is in the shop. Who knows where the its final resting place will be or if it will even be moved for the current spot. We do know that the ping pong table needs to be moved right now or else the Elk could will be a playing partner. Come on by and visit the trophy. Rick would love to show it off.

Joseph in December

View from the living room window where we stay in Joseph.

We went to Joseph this past December for a wrestling match. Here is a few photos that I took of the bronze art pieces downtown Joseph.

This one is my favorite Bronze.

Skiing at Bluewood

The top of the chair at Bluewood. Hard to tell but it was snowing.

What is taking you guys so long?

Here is ADK waiting for the rest of us at the bottom of the run.

The family minus Mom, the photographer. This is near the top of Skyline.

Here is some video of the boys skiing. Enjoy.





Video of ADK at the bottom of the terrain park at Ski Bluewood.

Video of ELK at the bottom of the terrain park at Ski Bluewood.

It was a good day of skiing for us, since it was our first day of skiing for the year.

This is ADK skipping rock at Wallowa Lake this past December. The picture was take about 3pm as the sun was starting to set. We went over for the weekend because there was a wrestling tournament in Enterprise on Saturday.

Here ELK is, he's the one in red/black. ELK took first place at the Enterprise Tournament.

Sunset

As you can see there is not much snow left. Just two pile the boys build a snow walls for the snowball fights they had. It rained most of last night and into this morning.

I was out cleaning out the chicken coop when I walk around the shop and saw the sunset. It was beautiful. By the time I got the camera the colors had disappeared some but still beautiful.

My chicken enjoying time out side the chicken pen. I have three of them that need to be butcher since they are not laying eggs anymore but I can't get anyone to kill them. Any takers???? I looking for a home for them.

Snow...Snow...

Woke this morning at 3:30am to rain. By 5am it had turned to snow. The thermometer shows it is 35 degrees but it is snowing. A very wet snow. At noon it had snowed 3 inches. A&E have been having fun making a snow family. snowboarding on the jump they made it the tall grass field. This is making up for missing the 3 ft of snow we got at the house over Christmas break when we were down South.

Lacy goes crazy when you throw snowballs. She chases them and also jumps in the air to catch them. She loves playing with the boys in the snow.

Today is Rick 49th Birthday. We don't have any special planned except for going out to dinner at Applebees in Walla Walla. Last night Evan realized that we had not gone shopping to get Dad a gift. He said he was going to give him $6 and needed something to wrap it in. I told him to keep his money and make Dad a card or a picture. Andrew and I did go out on New Years Day and get a few small things. I just paid for his fishing trip to Alaska this coming September so I figure that is a pretty good birthday present. We did bake him a cake when I was home for lunch today.