Catching up

OH MY! It has been almost a year since I did anything with this here blog...I can't believe it.

What have I been doing with myself? I know you simply DYING to know. Honestly, all I do all day is sit around ALL DAY and eat chocolate bon bons while being fanned by my servants! HA!

My sweetheart won't stop harassing me about this blogging business. He says I must continue blogging...so here we go, READY!??

OK, so what have we been doing the last year?

Let's see, I have to go backwards, otherwise, I won't remember anything.

This past January, Ruby was in her first ballet recital. She did an outstanding job! We were so proud of our beautiful ballerina! Here she is waiting to go out on stage. She was so nervous, but she knew her dances well and she did great!

And YES! Those girls she is dancing with are her age or ONE year younger!!! HOLY MOLY, the girl is tall!

Check out those LONG, LEAN legs. I am so jealous!

Love you Roo!

Another Adventure in our Favorite Winter Wonderland

Rich and I wanted to take the wild ones back up to the cabin in January to get some more time in the snow. Hannah WAS NOT happy with our decision, so we left her with my parents and took the other three. We had a very nice, quiet, wonderful time. We played in the snow, went sledding, tried out the new ice rink in town and RELAXED together.

It was cold, but nothing like when we were there after Christmas.

Here is Ruby sitting on top of a VERY LARGE pile of snow.

John was a little upset we couldn't get the snowmobiles started!

Rich spent a couple of hours, one morning, digging out the back of the cabin.

THERE WAS SO MUCH SNOW! It was amazing!

WHAT A HUNK!! (who just had one hell of a workout!)

Ruby is such a doll she can have a blast no matter where we are and what we are doing.

I love you Ruby!

John perked right up after Rich pulled him around on a sled behind the 4-wheeler.

Kirk is hysterical and one day while we were up there, he was in rare form....so I took advantage of that and kept snapping pictures. I got about 20 hilarious shots, but here are just a few.

Uh, GROSS!!! (but kind of cool!)

One day, while Rich and I were making dinner, we noticed it was a little too quiet. We quickly found John watching a movie on Rich's ipad. He turned it on, logged on to netflix and started a movie ALL BY HIMSELF! We didn't know he could do that, too funny!

We missed you HANNAH!! Never again will we go to the cabin (or another other place) without you!! We love you and want you with us! The end.

An evening at the WESTERN IDAHO FAIR-August 24th

I just found this old post about the fair that I never "published."  What a shame.  I must share, there are cute pictures of the wild ones. 

The most important part of the fair!!! LEARNING ABOUT YOUR BEEF!!

Kirk got to "walk a llama..." I guess this particular llama is quite a character...his handler (?)

wouldn't let Kirk out of her sight!

GOOD JOB KIRKIE!

Leading him/her over the obstacle course!

Ruby wanted to do it too...her llama was just like her...FULL OF ENERGY!

I couldn't ever get a good picture! Oh well, it was fun!

Feeding the animals...

Hannah was so sweet to help the kids with the food...so I wouldn't have to! :)

Too bad everyone can't have a daughter as AWESOME as Hannah!

Cute (but smelly) little things!

CHECK OUT THIS BIG DADDY!

Kirk was the only one brave enough to feed this guy...

Wish you could SEE the SLOBBER ALL OVER his hand! EWWWWW!