Monday, November 10, 2008

To Ekalaka and Backalaka

We spent this past weekend at the Tauck's place south of Ekalaka visiting, hunting, cutting wood, and working cows. Good times were had by all....and lots got done. On Thursday, the guys (Josh, Shaun, Luke, Jess, Jason, and Rod) cut and loaded about 3 cords of wood onto the flatbed and trailer we brought. On Friday they went hunting and got 6 deer, all in a matter of about 4 minutes. They shot them at about 1:00 in the afternoon and had them processed and in the freezer by 7:00. Pretty effecient! And Saturday, the weather cooperated quite nicely for a full day of preg testing.
Below is Josh with the pickup load of deer. Three of the six were Luke's. He took aim at a doe not realizing there were two more standing directly behind her in the same orientation. One bullet got all of them and didn't ruin a bit of meat. How many people do you know who can tell a story like that!

The miserable weather Wednesday and Thursday left enough snow to make snow balls when it warmed up on Saturday. Below are Guildy and Seth, a cousin of the Tauck clan.Hadley made herself useful by seeking out all the dangerous and mischievous things in the house...all the garbage cans, the paper for starting fires, the remote control, and her very favorite....the potted plants. Below she is snacking on some newspaper. Aside from a blizzard on the way there and a couple blown out trailer tires and some car sick girlies on the way home, it was a pleasant little road trip and so nice to get a break from the busy-ness of Boz Angeles.

Big Girls

A few recent pictures of the kiddos. Guildy is about the girliest girl I know. She loves dresses and tights and earrings and lip gloss, which until very recently she called "lip glop." She uses big words and can count up to 15 and loves doing art projects. Below is an action shot of Hadley at her best....crazy hair and very determined to walk from the chair to the couch. She keeps us laughing with her rubber face and acrobatic antics.

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Exciting Weekend

Baby Aaron!!
Our very exciting weekend acutally began on Thursday with the arrival of little Aaron Kade. His parents, Levi and Jena, have been friends of our for a long time, and their older son Mason is one of Guildy's best good buddies. Mason stayed with us on Thursday while his parents were busy, and he even got to stay for a sleepover that night. Guildy was super excited about that. Mason wasn't as thrilled about the arrangement, but he did really well. Here they are on Friday with Aaron.
Halloween
For Halloween, we went over the hill to Livingston and enjoyed the festivities at Zech and Brianne's house. Guildy had fun trick-or-treating, but playing with the other kids was way better than candy.Josh and I donned togas for the occasion. I was a domestic Greek goddess. Note my golden toilet brush sceptor. Josh was Gluteus Maximus. Note his ample back side:o)Brianne fashioned the cutest lamb costumes for Owen and Georgina (her niece). Here they are accompanied by Little Bo Peep and the Big Bad Wolf.And last but not least, there's Hadley. She was supposed to be a horse, but her costume only lasted about 5 miles outside of Bozeman before she puked on it. She's not such a happy traveller sometimes. So she wore her jammies instead:o) Brianne's mom Staci is holding her in this pic. The Princess Party
Guildy's little friend Faith turned 4 this week, so today her mom threw a 'princess ball' for her. Guildy loves anything related to princess-ness, so it was lots of fun for her. Most of the kids below are kids in Guildy's Sunday school class, so they all knew each other and had a great time. The kids went to the park for awhile and threw water balloons around....mostly at each other, but since none of them are very proficient at launching things with any degree of accuracy, nobody actually got wet. Well, I better wrap this up. In the time it's taken me to whip up a blog, Hadley has climbed the stairs a couple times, rummaged through my purse, and is now working on unrolling and eating the masking tape used last night to hold Josh's back side firmly in place. So I best be on damage control!