The Three Stooges

AKA... Conner, Easton, and Ella

The Ham-Bones. Picture Posers. Camera Cuties. Kodak Kids. Fake smile on demand. Basically, these kids have been throwing poses and grins the camera's way since they popped out into this world. There are just daily occurrences at our home, just chillin' and grinnin'.

Ella and Conner playing on the floor.

Conner and his nice cut on the eye. Why does he have a cut you ask? Because Easton threw Rocko on his face.

Easton waiting for someone to pull out a piece of his electrical chewing gum. (It really shocks, and hurts!)

She's either very mesmerized at the moment, or someone told her she'd get taffy if she stared into the camera.

Allen's Big 6-0 Birthday Party

Howdy y'all - just a quick update on how it's been since last post.

The weekend went very well, we relaxed, cleaned out the garage and watched some great football games. Then on Sunday we had Michelle's dad's birthday party at our house. It was his sixtieth and he took it in fair stride (as he always does). Here's some pics of the party.

Grandpa with all the grandkids. Is that eye cream Preston is holding? ;-)


Paula and Allen... keep smilin'.


I wonder what he's wishing for???

Let's try and get together more often...

Me and this blog, that is. Trying to get this to a weekly thing at least, and if you're lucky, more often.

Let's see... nothing new really happening this week. A new exception for this week is I'm coming out of my cave to sell on eBay again. About once a year I list a few things just to refresh myself on the ins and outs of how to do it. Oh, and to make some $$$ of old stuff lying around. It's a win-win (win).

Rocko is being a little turd lately. He's decided that it's OK to pee on the porch when we let him outside instead of walking all of the way to the grass. Oh well, he'll learn... or he better. Here's a little more recent pic of him with some of his facial hair out of the way. He still looks like an Ewok.



And, going through our pictures from the summer I saw this one that made me think of how easy it is to doctor a photo to make a bigfoot. Or, in this case, a baby bigfoot. All you'd need to do is cover Easton with a fur shading and voila - there it is, right in the mountains of southern Idaho.


See ya later, until next blog.

Been a Long Time Since I Rocked this Blog

So, what's up my peeps in Blogsville? What's new with us you ask? Well, if you can tell by the lack of blogging... not much. We're happily content with our boring lives, doing little during the week and on the weekends and have no exciting announcements to make in our lives. The closest thing I've got is my little brother's life, and he's getting married.

Small news since late July-
>> Rocko is bigger and behaving and learning well
>> We canned salsa and jam (raspberry and strawberry)
>> We went to Park City for a weekend (that was fun)
>> I'm in a new position at eBay (lots o' fun and lots o' math - you really DO use it in real life)
>> Kids are back in school again (again)
>> Planted more stuff in the yard

Well, that's about it. Not real fantasmical around here. Perhaps something will strike me and I'll post it. Other than that, I'm a slacker with a capital S.

...and Rocko was his name-o

So, after a couple of years of not having a loving, playful, and compassionate member of our family (with four legs) we decided to get a puppy. Well, technically he's not completely ours until we pick him up in a week and a half, but we took the plunge back into dog ownership.

He's a cute, little chocolate/tan cocker spaniel and was the best looking and most curious puppy we saw over the weekend. His mother was beautiful too, and great with kids, and we're so excited.

And, the best part, he can't jump a fence... he's only going to be 15" tall at the shoulders. Seriously though, we're very happy to have a new member of the family.

Here's his pics we took yesterday when we went and picked him out...

What a handsome man... a big sweetie.

Oh yeah, and the TRUE best part, he gave me some loving little kisses when we left. What a heart melter.

El Montana Vacacione

Ahh... the great outdoors. That's what our Montana trips are all about. We were up there for a week in Seeley Lake and got to spend time with Michelle's side of the family. Her aunts and uncles (Paula's siblings), cousins, and immediate family were all there. We floated the river in front of the cabin, went golfing, had a memorial dinner party for her Grandpa Jim, went to the lake, hiked to a waterfall and did a rope swing (phew - that's a lungful).

My favorite part was probably the rope swing we did the last day we were there. It was halfway between the Holland Lake lodge and the Holland Falls waterfall. The lake was COLD, but very refreshing and made for a great landing spot when you're swinging thirty feet in the air.

All in all it was fabulous and reminded us why we love to go there when we get the chance. Now we're thinking we need to steal away and get up there with just our family so we can stay at the cabin and enjoy it more often.

Enjoy the pics, because we enjoyed when they were being taken.

The Pic(s) of the Week

OK everyone, here goes a quick post about El Ragnar.

Had three great runs, everyone else did great, and it was another awesome time. It amazes me that when you abuse your body for 24+ hours three times that afterwards, when you're all sore and achy, that you suddenly realize that you want to do it again. Can't wait again for next year, it will be great.

BTW - here's the best shot Jaren took (I think anyways). It's me giving a farmer blow before my first leg, and yes, that little white streak you see (if you look really close) is in fact a 'farmer's rocket'.


Here's another dandy of the awesome people manning the exchange at the top of Ragnar:




And here's me handing off to Greg at the exchange:


Next posts: Montana trip and the 4th of July.