Merry Christmas Family!!

I hope the Christmas Party went well. Someone better post some pictures. I want to see all your cute faces. I heard that Mom and Dad were really surprised. Happy 40th M&D. Sure do love ya!!
Have a Merry Christmas!!

Cutest Granddogs In the world

On Friday December 12 Gabrin went to Idaho

to get the latest addition to our family. Rocky!!

The cute little back fuzz. Buddy our 1 year old

lab is learning to love his brother. Gabrin got

Rocky from the same people we got Buddy from.

They are some people from his mission that moved

to Idaho. Buddy was given to us for our wedding gift

and we bought Rocky for our christmas gift this

year!!!

Purple Belt

Gage earned his purple belt in karate last month. Way to go bud.

Kansas

Sorry all I'm posting at the moment is hunting. Just trying to figure out what I need to get caught up on posting on here..... guess we must not be doing much else these days....

Garrett's Buffalo Hunt

What fun all these guys had on this hunt. Thanks everybody for going and making it a wonderful memorable time.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!!

Yesterday we got about 6-8 inches of Snow. Abby LoVeD it!! Her and Daddy were out playing in it by 8:30am. I peaked outside and they had built a little snow man, Abby had snow angels all over the yard and they were having a snowball fight.

I love to watch them have such a good time.

I love Christmas lights, it's to bad the paint job in the background ruins this picture!! LOL

Our Ginger bread house turned out so cute this year. Abby made sure there was a mail box in front and it had a chimney for Santa. I thought that was so cute, she did a fantastic job making them too!! Lance said it needed a wood pile by the door and ice cycles and I did the tree's and a wreath. We sure made a HuGe mess but it sure was fun!!

Lone PIne Christmas Parade

The theme this year was "Pets on Parade". Abby's preschool had a float and the kids look their stuffed animals. It was freezing cold. I should have dressed Abby warmer. Poor thing was so cold by the time she got off.

Merry Christmas!! She thought that was pretty neat, being in her first parade. It was a good one to be in. Small town don't have long parades.

After the parade we went to see Santa..... it brought back memories from Green River..... Do you see anything that would remind you of the fire house? Oh yes, the cheesy man next to Santa!! He scared Abby to death. She wouldn't go close to Santa because of "his helper". We got to the truck and she started to cry. She thinks she isn't going to get anything because she didn't sit on his lap. It broke my heart. I think every picture of us growing up in GR there is a guy next to Santa that looks just like that!!! Oh and the little girl sitting on his lap is Abby's friend Larissa.

After Santa we went on a hunt for a Christmas tree. Luckily the local True Value had a couple left. It really did feel like I was a kid again. I remember going shopping at the True Value after Santa at the fire house. It's sad that GR no longer has a True Value Store.
Merry Christmas!!

Erwin Family Hike

The goal of the day. However this picture makes it look so small...... it's not really. We weren't sure if Abby could make it however I think she out did Mama!!

Isn't this picture cute?

Half way there!!

Mt. Whitney is the tallest peak in the US and our goal is to climb it before we leave here. The trail is 17+ miles. There are so many people that climb it each year that you have to get a permit and they give them to you through a draw. So I hope we are lucky enough to draw out. Abby's to young to go, she's going to be sad.

Oh yeah, she made it and is VERY proud of herself. She kept telling me on the way up.. "I can do it Mama, I won't give up!" I thought that was so cute.

Preschool

Miss Abby started preschool this week. Today was her second day and she couldn't wait to go. I let her pick where she wanted to have her picture taken and she said, Mama I love our purple door!! So we have to use it and then a HUGE tree out front of the school. She thought that was pretty cool. Her teach Ms. Katy seems to be nice, so we'll see how it goes! Can't believe she's so grown up!

Colorado Hunt

It's nothing new that I'm slow posting things on here......but anyway....Garrett went hunting deer in Colorado last week & here's the deer he got. You always are hoping for a bigger one but it's still really nice.

Flashback Friday Fun

ENJOY these fun ones!

Jay's Buffalo Hunt

Linda, Gabrin, Jay, Bruce, Stephen & Garrett

Happy Halloween 2008

For Halloween this year Ali was Giselle from the movie Enchanted & Gage was the Headless Horseman.

Mighty Coyote Hunters

Gage & Garrett went coyote hunting & buffalo scouting last saturday.

They didn't see much in the way of buffalo but had fun calling coyotes.

To cute to SpOoK!!

This evening I took Abby to the Fall Festival at the school. She had a really good time and of course I had to take pictures of her all dressed up. I tried really hard to get her to let me paint her face green.... she was not having any part of that. She wanted to look "SPOOKY" but the only thing she let me do is put green eye shadow on her. Just look at her she's so not spooky at all!! LOL She made her daddy proud though, she won all 3 games that involved shooting and she even beat a boy at the balloon competition. She defiantly has my competitive edge... .... is that a bad thing?

Abby's Birthday!!

Flashback Friday

I was kind of trying to organize some photos in my entertainment center & came across these fun ones. Hope you enjoy them. As I find more I will probably have to embarrass more of you.

Gage's hunting days started when he was pretty young too. He's got his calls around his neck, his bb gun, his huntin' dog & his bird he bagged. What more do you need?

Happy Birthday to my Abby!!

Oh my Sweet Abby!!! I sure do love you. Hope I can make this day special! Thanks for always making me laugh. I don't know how you got to be so funny, but Mama thinks your hilarious!! You're sweet as can be and I'm so proud of you!! Happy Birthday!!

Love, Mama

San Diego Baby!

Alicia reminded me today that I had not blogged my San Diego Vacation. I told her that I would work on it tonight...So here we go. I went to San Diego at the end of last month to visit Barry and Cathy Cheskaty. We had a great time. Cathy has been trying to get me to come visit since I was a little girl. Nothing like being 20 years late. One of the things that Cathy has wanted to take me to see forever has been the San Diego Zoo. So we headed there first. Let me tell you, it's a huge zoo. There is even a sky ride like they have a Lagoon. We enjoyed our time there. The next day we wanted to spend that day at the beach....Which we did but not before we went the the Steven Birch Aquarium. That is a neat place! The rest of the week we spent being lazy tourist. Spending afternoon laying on the beach. We spent some time at Linda's beach house in Carlsbad. It really was a very relaxing vacation. One that I greatly needed. I even got to go to the Temple. Man I love the temple and the San Diego temple is simply magical! So Alicia, Here you have it. I'm blogging, although I'm not sure I'm very good at it. Here are a few pictures from my trip. (unfortunately I was such a lazy tourist that I didn't take many pictures.)

This one is for Dad! There was a hummy Bird at the temple. I thought it was awesome!

Proof I was there

Yes that is me by the touching the pier!

Moon Light Jellies believe it or not are completely harmless to humans.

That makes them just that much more beautiful.