Our day at the calving barn

Dustin taking a quick break from cleaning stalls to give me a smile...
I thought I would put a picture in of Cater Mountain from the other side. From my house it looks like a single little mountain, but really it is a fairly large mountain range...

Daddy's girl

After all the chores were done, we played a fun game of hide and seek. Inside the barn due to the wind!!

Going to bring the cows in for the night...

You might be a Redneck if....

Dustin is all about camouflage these days and wanted to paint him bike camo. Santa had the brilliant idea of providing the boy with a roll of camouflage duct tape!! I have to say, the tape was much less messier then the paint could of been ;)

The Sky is on Fire......

I thought that the sunset was pretty the other night. The kids said it looked liked there was a fire in the sky and full of smoke!

Christmas Goodies

This year the kids decided that they wanted to make cookies and carmel corn, so we had 1 day full of baking....
They also wanted to make gingerbread houses. Here are the final results....

Christmas Day

We had a nice quiet Christmas this year. We stayed at home and my brother and his girlfriend came up for the weekend. Matt cooked a prime rib out on the grill and we just got to hang out and play and visit all day :-)

I think this Barbie make-up kit was Riley Jo's favorite thing....the fact that it had eyeshadow in it was the best part. Although at first she thought that the eyeshadow was for her lips!! Had to give a how to wear make up lesson!

Colt really got a kick out of Riley's Zhu Zhu pets...

Barbie was very popular this year as was anything girlie like makeup, nail polish and hair stuff!

Dustin on the other hand, is all boy. His goodies consisted of a new NERF gun, targets for his .22 and bow, and boxes of .22 shells, and remote control trucks.

Here's Uncle Ryan trying to figure out the magic of the Fushigi ball

A fun game of Battleship...

2 tired dogs....

1 super tired girl...

Meet Colt....

Colt is the newest member of our family. He is almost 3 months old and full of piss and vinegar!

The 1st day he was here, Butch wanted absolutely nothing to do with the puppy. He ignored him. After a few days, they are finally starting to get along. Butch seems to like having him around to play with and Butch is not afraid to let the pup know who the boss dog is. I think that it's safe to say, they are now friends!

PLEASE chase me....