Happy New Year!

Do these people know how to party, or what...?

People who don't update their blogs...

...should be shot. I'll see if I can't come up with some content!

How about my youngest trying to grow up without my permission! Now there's something to whine about!

My March Calendar Girls

I know I have posted this before on this blog, but it's worth looking at for me!

March Madness

OK, so Natalie guilted me into updating my blog. She's doing a nice job on hers. What can I talk about...? Oh, I know. It's MARCH MADNESS... To most guys, that means loads of basketball. I've been having a good year, since both the Cougars and Aggies have been kicking some b-ball trash! But I am overly unqualified to discuss sports. My idea of March Madness... BIRTHDAYS!!! It seems everyone I know and love was born in March - except of course the ones born in January, February, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December... didn't want to leave anyone out. However, I do seem to have a fair number of birthdays in March. So,here's a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my March family. Let's party!

Fall Leaves and Family Photos

Last Sunday, we all took a ride up to Snowbasin to see the leaves. Kelly brought his camera and took some great photos. I thought it was remarkable that no one fell and was injured. You see, the boulders around us we really quite high off the ground, and we were all doing a balancing act trying to stay on them. Kelly was doing the most acrobatics, jumping from boulder to boulder so he could line up the shot, and then jumping back to get in the picture. It was a fun time, and I'm glad we all made it down safely!

This is the first family video from the Tetons. It has some of my favorite people in it. I'm still working on a video that has the hikes in it. Until then, here it is...

Horse Riding, Cowboy fools!

This is our horse ride in the Tetons. The opening shots are from my grandmother's old movies. I think I inherited my love of the Tetons from her. I'll bet she had thousands of hours of old movie shots of the Tetons. Funny how they don't look any different now than they did in those old 8mm movies from 45 years ago. Watching those old movies really brings back a lot of good memories. It's a wonderful thing to be able to look back and remember the good times and how much fun we had together. However, I have decided that these days, a one hour ride on a horse at a slow walk is more than enough to last me for a long, long, time.

Opening shots include my Uncle Gary and Aunt Arlene, with Arlene's sister LaRae. (I called her Mabel - I don't know why.) But we had a lot of good times in the Tetons. I think these movies were taken on the trip where Gary took us to the cafeteria for dinner one day. Mabel and I thought you had to take one of everything, so when they rang up the bill, Gary was amazed. He threatened us that we had better eat everything we took or else. We couldn't possibly eat it all, but as was usually the case, Gary's bark was worse than his bite. I can remember Paul coming back from a camping trip to the Tetons with Gary, where Gary had made Paul sit in the showers for 4 hours while they washed his clothes. Good times!

Caitlin loves horses so much, but she is soooo allergic. She was really the reason we went horseback riding - that, and it was Coulton's last trip before his mission. Caitlin always has to take a Benydril before riding, and then change out of her clothes immediately when she is done. She had a good time, but was drowsy the rest of the day. The rest of us city slickers had a good time, but I for one was glad the trip only lasted an hour. I walked funny for the rest of the trip... how did John Wayne do that?

Ride, Cowboy, Ride seemed appropriate for this day.