Tuesday, January 3, 2012

New Years Annual Reunion



My Dad and his siblings, minus Jim who has passed on.
                                               Cliff, Charles and Roy, 2 brothers and a cousin. 
                                           My dad has known these two men their whole lives!

                                     Me, my sister and our Aunt Charlot, I think I am her favorite!   

                                                My Dad's Aunt Gert and his cousin Pat...
                                               Gert's husband and Pat's dad were brother.
                                   This is my dad's sister, Charlot.....she is married to a Cowboy,
                                                     a real Cowboy and lives in a log house!
                                             This is my Aunt Ellen, she is a real Cowgirl,
                                                      she is my dad's youngest sister,
                                                          the other lady is my sister,
                                               I think they are amazing and sooo cute!
                                         My sister Pati with our dad's brother John, (Uncel Jr,)
                                                    He  is a rancher...the hardcore kind.
                               In the summer they lived on the ranch, no electricity and an outhouse!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Grandies

I love my "Grandies", this is a term my older brother and sister use and I have adopted it. I have always loved babies and kids but this grandparent stuff is so AWESOME. I love my won kids so much and to have their little ones in my life just put happy right up over the top!

We are headed to see our Grandies "down South" today, I am so excited, have not seen them since Christmas!! Get ready kids, CookieMa is coming, oh yeah, and Poppa too!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Post Christmas Goodies

If I have not done some Christmas Baking, I feel that I have left something undone...so I did, even if it was in January. Below I have some divinity, cookies and fudge and lovely pralines with pecans.

I have always had a rear of making divinity because people always talked about how hard it is and how the weather can affect it, I gave it a shot and it was DIVINE, 2 batches later and both turned out!










Monday, August 2, 2010

Our First trip to the Max Inn

Reuel's brother and his wife Karen bought a "mountain retreat", this is our first of hopefully many fun visits!! A view uphill of the "Max Inn"

This is the view we woke up to out of window in the morning, hard to beat this!
Jessica decided that the girls should take a hike so hiking we went. Jess strapped on baby Lucy and the girls put on their hiking hats, shirts and boots and down the hill we went.
The flowers left from early summer were so pretty, this is a "Black Eyed Susan"
Grandma Great did awesome, these girls were fearless though gave us a scare on the rock!
The hike included SCAT, which is the proper term for "poop you see in the woods".



The weekend was not all fun and games, after all, we were there to build a wall!! Well, "we" meaning Ron, Reuel, and Michael and build a wall they did!!
I cannot believe I did not take an after shot.
There was also a bit of a "marshmallow toasting" competition,
May I dare say that I think Reuel won....
although his brother came in a close second.

Reuel riding a dirt bike, I loved seeing him having fun with his brother, hat turned backward and a big smile on his face!



These are crazy people jumping off of rocks and a tire swing, I have to admit though it did look fun! We had to hold Ron back!
This is the end of our visit, Ron took us up a trail and we saw a beautiful river...I am just glad we did not see the bear the other hikers saw!!

Friday, May 28, 2010


Here are a couple of pics of us in Leavenworth, we shopped we ate and we just enjoyed the gorgeous day in a quaint little town with people we love.



Wow I tend to forget that I have this other blog just about us and the things we do.

This past weekend was spent with a mix of family, fun and a side job for Reuel.

We went to help out Uncle Ralph, well Reuel did, I spent the day in Yakima with Danielle and her girls.


Sunday, March 7, 2010

Dutch Oven Cookin'

Oh so yummy for my tummy!!
Thanks Hubby!!
takin' a peek.....
almost there
This is the dutch oven outside with the briquettes doing their job.
Reuel loves to cook in his dutch oven, last night it was ribs ummmmmmm, ummmmmm, good!

Monday, October 12, 2009

Reuel's Hunting Trip

This is an old cabin that is close to where they hunt, talk about rustic!