Winter Wonderland

We went for a Saturday afternoon drive up to Anderson Dam. It was a beautiful drive and saw a few bald eagles, deer, elk and antelopes.

Mommy is staying home!

Mommy is staying at home with me and not going back to work. I get to play and have fun with her all day! Thank you Daddy! See me playing with my saucer/jumper Oma? Thank you very much. I am getting better on my tummy too and I like seeing myself in the mirror.

Christmas Tree Hunting 2008

Here we are with the 3 of us in front of our Christmas Tree. We went with our friends John, Heidi and their daughter Lilly. The little girls did great. We had fun and enjoyed our time together with our friends in finding the perfect tree.

Thankful for lots of Love

This year I want to thank our lucky star. Darin and I are thankful for a very beautiful healthy baby girl. Tony and Heidi a very handsome young man and a great big sister. Lindsey and Clay a beautiful healthy baby girl as well. We are thankful that everyone in our family is healthy and all are doing well.

Look who is Smiling!!

Here she is smiling and having a conversation with me. When she does have focus on me boy does she ever put on a super big grin! She loves talking and is doing it more and more with me as the day goes on.

This is her talking to me.

Total concentration on me while I was making all sorts of sounds and movements of my mouth. Love this picture of her.

Miss Brooke at 2 months

Our little girl is now a little over 2 months old. She is smiling and is talking. She weighs 9 lbs 9 oz. (I can't get a good picture of her smiling I miss it every time I took a picture) She loves to talk to Mommy in the mornings and while she gets her diaper changed. We play a lot of animal sounds and talk about our day and the Thanksgiving Holiday that is coming up. We are excited to have her meet more family. She just started to suck on her hands and sometimes she will talk during and occassionly she will find her thumb. She is just so Cute!

Zoe

Taking a nap in the sun.

Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Open Weekend Success!

What a Beauty! 5x5 Bull Elk. Well worth the 32 mile hike put into this hunt.

Miss.Brooke

She got her one month old pictures done today. She showed her model instinct!! Announcements on the way.

1st week home

Brooke has discovered her thumb!! She is one week old in this picture. She is doing so well. She had her check up with her dr and she weighed 5lbs 14oz 19 inches long. Dr said she looks great and will surpass her birth weight by the end of the 2nd week. We are very proud of her!!

My brother and his family came down to see Brooke. Here is Elise the oldest cousin seeing her for the first time and giving her lots and lots of kisses. Darin and I also had awesome help from Oma and Papa and Aunt Heidi and Uncle Tony. Thank you for all you've done for us this week!!

Welcome Baby Austin!

Here she is! Our perfect little Angel.
We want to welcome our daughter Brooke Danielle who was born on September 4th at 3:16pm. She weighed 6 lbs and is 20 inches long.

Daddy's Little Angel!

Daddy dressed her in her first outfit to go home. We left on Saturday afternoon and what a beautiful day it was.

All dressed and ready to go home!

Thanks you all at St. Luke's who helped Mommy and Daddy and I.

Opening Day!

It was a hour and half of bliss!

34 Doves

4 guys and 3 Dogs

"PRICELESS"

St. Joe Family Smackdown 2008

My first glass of WINE in 8 months!! It was very good and it was great to share that moment with Heidi and Mom.

Here is Aunt Krista and Uncle Darin's Favorite Little Princess Elise and Mr. Riley Frazier!

Baby Shower with my Family. Thank you all for such great Gifts!!

Darin and Jason hanging out waiting to be judged on their Dessert.

The Smackdown Dutch Oven WINNER!! Tony and Heidi took the prize. It was a delish, dutch oven cake.

Enjoy that trophy!! We will come back and WIN ;>)

Bull Trout Lake

This place is beautiful. We camped here in July and the weather was perfect. Great weekend to get away as it was getting too hot in Boise. Its not far from Stanley, ID. We camped with our friends John and Heidi and their daughter Lilly. We did NOTHING but relaxing and hanging out.

Hay is in for Winter!

Wahoo! The Hay is in!! Thanks to Pete. They started at 7 am and finished about 1 in the afternoon. Giving Pete breaks as needed. He stacked 504 bails of hay by himself. Darin was able to use a skidsteer to haul in 6 bails at a time and bring it to Pete's level to stack. That was a big help! Doug and Darin are very thankful to get this in before mother nature decides it wants to rain.

Baby Austin's Nursery

The Baby's Nursery is painted over the 4th of July Thanks to Grandpa and Daddy to be!! It only took them a hour to get it done and did a second coat the next day. I like it and yes it is bright. I hope that the furniture and decor will balance it out. The Furniture is on its way and will put that up when it is here.

New Baby Calves!!

This is our 4th baby calf this year. He is an all white face bull calf!! Our Idaho had a hard time with this little guy! Thank goodness Darin was there when he arrived. He was flipped upside down when he was born. With quick action Darin straightened him out and moved him onto the grass and Idaho came to clean him up quickly.

This is our 5th and last baby born for this year. He was born on May 31st while Darin and I were up in Coeur d'

Alene for the weekend.

He arrived with no issues. ;>)

Memorial Day Weekend

This River is the North Fork. This was our view from our Bed in our Camper. We saw a cow Elk cross this river around 9:30pm. We also saw Eagles and lots of Blue Herons.

The White Cloud Mountains were really neat to see up the East Fork of the Salmon River.
We saw all kinds of Deer.

This waterfall was very close to our campsite.

One of the many beautiful sceneries we saw up the East Fork of the Salmon River.