Reflections Contest

Annie entered and won the Reflections Contest. She took this picture with her own camera while we were in Yellowstone in September. Now they are sending her photo down to be judged in our region. We are so proud of you Annie.
Here is her photo.

Our new Suburban

For our 15th anniversary, Scott and I took a road trip to California to get my new car. Scott's mom was nice enough to take 2 days off work so we could go. We had to take Eva with us, but it was still a great anniversary. We ate fresh seafood on the coast and drove highway 1 towing the suburban behind us. It was great! Scott has been looking for an old suburban for months and we finally found the one. It is going to be so much better than my Cruiser. No more climbing over the seats and squishing poor Margaret in back with the dogs. Scott has the FJ40 up and running and has to finish a few things and then he is going to start on my new ride. I'm so excited! And yes I am keeping the Orange, but it will be Orange and white. Scott wouldn't let me have my blue because the FJ55 is blue.

The girls are super excited. The first night we were gone, we called to talk to the girls and the first thing Margaret said was Did you get the new car yet? No not yet. What color is it? Orange. That's my favorite color.

Good thing our girls are just like us and love old cars.

a big house for 2 big dogs

Our poor dogs have shared an igloo for the past 3 years, so we finally built them a penthouse. It wasn't meant to be quite this big, but I was worried they would be too squishy, so Scott made it 4 feet by 8 feet. It's insulated, has a summer porch and inside winter quarters, shingled roof. I think we need to send a picture into Jay Leno, but the dogs love it.

Watch out for that spit!

It was a little tight painting the inside of the doghouse! We let the girls help paint the doghouse too, but they were bored after about 15 minutes.

Korie coming over to check out the progress


Look at all that insulation

Margaret and Ruby testing it out.

Happy Halloween

Annie was a vampire, Margaret a skeleton, Ellie a witch and Eva a pumpkin

This year Halloween was really rainy, but the girls still had a great time going trick or treating and to Aunt Nancy's party.

Our annual Yellowstone Trip

We love our annual trip to my parents cabin and Yellowstone.Sweet Eva
Margaret and Ellie Mae playing in the loft

It was so cold we had to let the dogs sleep inside. I had to wash all the walls when we left, it was so gross.

My cute family

Mags kept trying to sneak and touch the water, so I let her and Annie freaked out because she might get burned. I touched it first, but Annie is so cute and motherly.

Mags holding her nose!

So funny! Never gets old!

We saw many animals, but my favorite was the bear eating berries right by the road!

Me and Ellie Mae

Mags and Annie

So stinkin cute