I am Back!!!

Shelby and Holly on Trek!

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Sampson and I at Lagoon.

My terrific Family! Notice who is the short one!

Time just seems to slip away, to where I don't know! I feel like I am always running a hundred miles an hour, but I never seem to make up any ground. The to do list just seems to only get longer and longer. I can't believe another year is coming to an end and I feel like it just began. We are in the midst of basketball and both girls seem to be loving it. I love watching them play, but Sam doesn't seem to share my enthusiam. It might just be a long season, walking the halls with Sam.

Talk about nerd!

This is what I would call a nerd! We love you Shelby.

Nerd!

HI!! this is Shelby.... my mom said to put some pictures on here and she will write about them later.......... ENJOY!!!

And now you see the reason for the title....

It has been a good year hunting and fishing. Shelby and I had a great day fishing for brook trout on Elk creek. We did some shooting with the 22 mag pistol on the way. She is quite good. When sampaon was about one week old the whole family went shooting. Hailey is getting more comfortable with a rifle all the time. The "big one" still eludes me. I guess God wants me to have something to whine about. I ended up with a Turkey, a 4 point buck, a steelhead or two and a seven foot sturgen.

Makes me smile!

I just love this picture. I have to say this boy of mine is quite cute. I am having so much fun raising a baby again, Sampson is just a bundle of joy. I am so grateful for a Father in Heaven that knows just what we need and gives it to us even if we might be a little apprehensive. I am so grateful for my amazing girls, for one terrific husband, for this beautiful place we have to live, for rain, for snow, for family, for friends, for a warm comfortable place to live, for good health, for turkey, and for this time of the year. I am thankful for babies that sleep through the night! I actually slept from 10:30 pm to 6:00 am it was fantastic the best I've had in a very long time.

The dang Leaves

This is our "not so little" boy- Sampson is still growing like a weed. In fact,
I think he must have had or is going to have a growth spurt because all he wants to do is eat.

My family with my mom and dad--grandma and grandpa got me meet Sampson--yeah!

This is pic in Boise after one of Shelby's soccer games. My mom and dad, my two sisters, my brother and our friends the Millers all came to visit us while in boise--it was great to see all of them and let the kids all swim at the motel pool--I am sure the motel really loved it as well.

Here is a picture of the once beautiful leaves.

Wonderful Fall Weather!

OK so our new house has three huge trees in the back yard--that have a ton of leaves. Well when we were in Boise two weekends ago all of these beautiful leaves decided to fall off of the trees (I guess this is what happens in the fall). Well they all fell and then it started to rain so come Saturday we had about 6 inches of wet, soggy leaves covering the backyard. Now I wish I could just make them disappear or something, but I haven't been invited to attend Hogwarts and don't know the disappearing spell. Therefore, I figured we would have to do it the old fashion way and rake the darn buggers up, so very cheerfully I informed the girls that Saturday would be a great fun leaf raking day ( This is supposed to get them excited right?). Well, after about 30minutes of "come on get ready" we were finally outside. Sampson was in the house frying his brain watching a little Finding Nemo. The girls and I worked for over three hours and we didn't even get all of the leaves raked into piles, so guess what we will be doing again this Saturday. I can't wait. My dear manly husband missed out on all of the fun because the big stud was out trying to get meat for his family so we won't starve this winter--What a great guy!! No I am not being Sarcastic!!! OK maybe a Little!