Taking in some local nature

Last Sunday we had a late start game so took advantage of the free time and grabbed the dogs and went walking to a little "canyon". Michaela was staying with us so we went ahead and let her grab her dog as well. Now before I tell the rest of the story let me back track to another one. My 2 dogs are to the point that they are kind of ok walking together. Our doxie though is very hyper when he gets to walk. We have a harness for him to wear as he likes to choke himself w/just a collar on. He is pretty funny to watch. It is kind of like a dog on a tread mill. He runs like crazy, but gets no where! Thank goodness he is only around 15 pounds because we can keep controll of him. He also has the strong desire to be front dog at all times. Now Teddy and Lincoln have gotten to that point in their lives that they know each other well and live in realitive harmony with each other. However when a new dog enters the picture Lincoln gets very uneasy and slighly defensive. Teddy just gets horney and will stop at nothing to "get to know" the other dog no matter the gender. So Michaela has a dog now that is a form of a terrier and very hyper...so 2 hyper dogs in the same yard and one uneasy one makes for an interesting senerio. So now back to my story. 2 dogs on a walk with a new one tossed into the mix. What started as a family walk, turned into a extended out line keeping all dogs away from each other. Michaela had to walk about 50 yards in front of us. Followed by Scott about 25 yards behind Michaela with Lincoln. We had Teddy because he was just going nuts trying to catch up to Michaela's dog (Mya). The walk was close to the house and once you drop down a bit, other then housing projects and new school project up on the ridge, it was like being in a whole different world! We opted not to walk the entire path that they had there, since the dogs were going out of their minds, but it was enough to get some pictures and out of the house to enjoy the area around us.

My little sister finally did it!!!!

So I'm sitting here watching the game (and if you have to ask what game, you just don't know me very well!!!!) Anyways I figured that now would be a good time to start doing updates...so the plan is for every Sunday to do an update here.

Back in August my family came out to visit. Now when I say family I mean entire family! I had my mom, dad, middle sister Sara and her boyfriend/husband Rob, and their 4 that's right 4 kids, my youngest sister Emily and her boyfriend John. Needless to say there was a hugely full house here for that week!!! During the week we mostly just hung around the house catching up and hanging out. Back over the 4th of July Tim and I went out and picked up an old bowling machine (65). Amazingly it works pretty good still. So for us that was the nighly event. Tim and I, and my sisters and their signifi others playing. We would split up into boy vs girl teams and what made the game even more interesting is that the machine would randomly pick a player to screw! John could "bowl" a strike but get no points for it. Then a game or two later it would be Sara, or anyone else. Strikes would be flying but the points wouldn't.
Midway through the trip my sister Sara had decieded that after like 100 years with her boyfriend that now was the time to finally make it legeal and offical!!! They did a JP style wedding so it was kind of funny as we headed into the jail/court house as we all had to pass through security. So there we are all dressed up having to put all our belongings, including bouquets onto the conveyer belt. After the wedding we headed back to the house for a dinner and cake and a night of poker. I would like to say congradulations to her and Rob. I'm very happy for them and wish them all the best in the world!

While they were here we also celebrated my neices 6th birthday and my nephews 9th birthday. We also had several waterballon fights. They started off for the kids, but turned into a "grown up" revenge style of game. Let me tell you we had some HUGE ballons too! We had bought many bags of waterballons and let the kids have their go with those. We had also bought some regular party style balloons that had was you might see in a ballon bouquet sized ballons in it. So when filled with water they were the size of a small bomb. One that we did must have weighed at least 15 pounds! I had also saved a bunch of fire works for Sara and Robs wedding, but it rained here each night so we didn't get a chance to light them off until Sunday night right before they were going to have to leave. I had so much fun having my family all here, but with so many people and so many events going on it seemed as if we wen't able to go anywhere at all. So I do hope that they all come out again sometime (maybe a few at a time) so that we can show them around some of the neat things we have here, both in town and all around!