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Wedding Bells…
What an emotional, wonderfully great last week. How can parents have such a wide array of feelings? So happy for the next step of their lives but mixed with a twinge of sadness.
Life is bittersweet…
The littles and the boys with GG
Em and Garrett all dressed up…
The girls getting some pics before the wedding…
Handsome Teigen…
Beautiful Samantha with her sister…
Giving the groom away, awfully hard on me…
A quick kiss…
Father and son…
Rings…
Official…
Yeah!!
Handsome guys…
The girls hiding from the wind…
The Dads…
Papas…
My mother-in-love, Aunt Abigail and Uncle Jason…
Cold little girl…
“Happiness”
A little rain and a slight breeze but no snow!
Headed to the hay shed…
My mom and dad…
The official paperwork…
Sawyer with his Grammies, my mom on the right and my husband’s mom on the left.
Sawyer with his Papas, Mark’s dad on the left and mine on the right.
The littles…
Sammy with her dog Oakley…
Sawyer trying to embarrass his sister…
Brother and sister…
Grammy and Garrett dancing…
Madeline and Sawyer…
Brother and Sister…
Sammy with Hayden…
A little dance between buddies…
A little dance between buddies…
Father Daughter…
Sammy and Garrett
Hayden
My parents…
Tori and Hayden
Love this one of my kids and my parents…
❤
My beautiful girls…
All too soon the evening came to a close and the new married couple drove away…
The day seemed sort of like a fuzzy dream. Totally wonderful but in the same thought how did it come to this so soon. Very surreal. It was just yesterday…
The boys started moving into his room and found a couple of treasures…
A blanky with only two corners of silky left on it. A blanky a boy carried with him everywhere and was the ultimate comforter…
His little Teddy that followed him everywhere…
How can a mommy go from crying tears of pure happiness and being excited for her boy and his wonderful new wife to crying tears of remembrance all in the same minute?
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Frosty Kisses…
Last years bottle lamb, Frosty, decided to give Hayden a little smooch…
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Snoozing…
Mutton Bustin’…
Teigen had an awesome rodeo experience this past Thursday! He was chosen to see how long he could ride on a sheep!
Here he is before, checking out the sheep…
The sheep making their way up to the chutes…
Getting his helmet and vest on…
Him and his daddy laughing about something…
Teigen and his lucky sheep…
He’s off…well not really, just out of the chute…
13.6 seconds!
Giving the rodeo clown a high-five!
All smiles as he runs to dad!
He ended up placing 2nd that night out of 11 kids!
Showing off his new buckle and bandanna!!
Good riding buddy!
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Good Morning…
Last night’s beautiful moon! Can you imagine hiking to the top of mountain by moonlight? That’s what Sawyer and his buddies did this morning or maybe call it last night, where-ever 2 a.m. fits in that time frame. They hiked to the top of Mt. Aneas in the Jewel Basin to watch the earth come alive…
The first hints of daylight…
I love these two pictures of this young man!
The hike back down in the daylight…
What a wonderful experience for these guys!
A little more info about Mt. Aeneas in the Jewel Basin…
At just over 7,500 feet Mount Aeneas could easily be bypassed for other peaks with higher elevations or in more popular locations such as Glacier National Park.
To do so would be to miss a jewel of a peak. In fact, Mount Aeneas is located in the Jewel Basin. The views into Glacier National Park, The Bob Marshal Complex and The Flathead Valley are worth the easy hike to the summit. The map rates it as strenuous but by Glacier National Park Standards this is an easy class 1/2 hike.
The Jewel Basin is home to 27 lakes and most of them have fish in them. In days gone by it was possible to enter the Jewel Basin and have the area to yourself. Talk about fishing and a great wilderness experience!
Remote campsites are provided at a few selected lakes and most of them are an easy day hike away from the trailhead at Camp Misery (more on the name later). The Jewel Basin is made up of 15,349 acres (62.1 km²) and 50 miles of trails. The Jewel Basin is specially designated for hiking only, with motorized vehicles and horses prohibited.
The locals say that Camp Misery was named for the place that a local tribe spent a terrible winter. It is not impossible to imagine such a winter as the snowfall in this particular area is measured in feet not inches.
Mount Aeneas is named for Chief Aeneas Paul who was born in 1828 and was also known as Big Knife II and Koostatah I.
As Chief of a band of Kootenai along the western shore of Flathead Lake, Chief Aeneas struggled with the rapid white settlement of the Flathead Valley.
By one account, the half Iroquois Aeneas Paul rose to chief when Chief Baptiste was killed by Blackfeet Indians near the site of present-day Hungry Horse Dam in 1876. He had six children by his wife Woman’s Cry of Triumph. Two of his sons would die at the hands of white men and two would carry on as chief after him.
Chief Aeneas is of the Dayton Creek band of the Kootenai. He is believed to be one of the negotiators of the Hell Gate Treaty of 1855 and an interpreter for missionaries such as Father Pierre Jean DeSmet.
Other names of nearby geographic features — like Broken Leg Mountain, Lamoose Lake, and Baptiste Peak — reflect the names of Kootenai leaders from the mid-to-late 1800s.
Source: Swan Journal article by Keith Hammer
A Day with Big Brother…
A couple of weeks ago the boys spent the day doing what they love best! With their big brother!! What else could the boys ask for?
Garrett and his catch! He caught 8 fish in all!
Nice sunfish, Teigen!
Zayne is pretty proud! He caught 5 fish that day!
Two at once!
Another double catch! Hayden caught 5 fish!
The line-up! These fish don’t stand a chance.
Teigen caught 10 fish that day! Happy boy!
Sawyer, big brother himself, caught three fish in between taking fish off the hook and fixing tangles.
Thanks Sawyer for the incredibly fun day catching lots of fish! Lots of memories made.
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20 years ago…
How can it be that 20 years ago today that we brought home this adorable little guy…
We were young (16 and 18) and scared to death…
Many, many people said we wouldn’t make it…
(Reserve Champion market steer and Grand Champion Showmen)
(Shooting at Nationals for small bore pistol in 4H.)
But, oh how love grows…
By the good grace of God.
Happy 20th birthday wishes to Sawyer! We are so proud of the young man you are…
Dirty Little Boys…
This hole in the ground has been transitioned from a fort to a mud pit…
Why yes, that is a sled!
It makes the perfect surfboard…
Or not…
Got mud? Just add boys…
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Zayne…
Last Sunday, my littlest little boy stayed home from church with me to tend to the sheep. We had a very wonderful morning…
Yes, we now have three bottle babies and they are waiting very impatiently while I make their bottles up and Zayne decides which jello flavor he wants.
Frodo,Frost and Snoopy following us around while we do chores…
Photo by Zayne: 🙂
Checking out how the leash works…
Another photo by Zayne of Thor and the three stooges…
Another photo taken by Zayne of the hen (above) and the pasture (below).
My zany Zayne!
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