Anniversary Trip

Megs and I got back from our anniversary trip this past Monday. We had a great time in Maui, it was great to get out for one last big trip before Maddy.

Well Done Ian

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Please join me in congratulating Ian Schneider as our newest Eagle Scout. Ian successfully passed his Eagle Board of Review last night and becomes our 30th Eagle Scout.
Ian has been in scouting for 9 years, getting his start in Cubs as a Wolf scout. His camping experiences in scouting are extensive including a trek at the famous Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. He has served in several leadership positions in the Troop including the highest leadership position, Senior Patrol Leader. He is a member of the OA and successfully completed National Youth Leader Training.
Ian is the 5th scout in our Troop's history to become a second generation Eagle Scout. Ian's father John, is also an Eagle Scout.
Ian, you nailed it!

Bob Mayer

Grandpa Smith

There was nothing he loved more than his wife, his children and all his grandchildren.
His presence has touched our lives.

Happy March Birthdays!

Happy Birthday Gramma Schneider! (March 19)
Happy Birthday Rich! (March 21)
Happy Birthday Haley! (March 22)

Natural Beard Winner

Whoohoo, two months of not shaving was not a waste. Work had a beard on competition and I walked away with the best natural beard. Unfortunately, my design wasn't good enough.

Thought everyone would enjoy this overnight transformation pic.

is it too late to change the theme of creed/jessica wedding?

Gothic Weddings « All things heinous, trashy, and hilarious in weddings!

Salad Days are near!

The snow has cleared and Jessica has lettuce growing! The valley and foothills are covered in wildflowers right now. Some of the hills around Jessica's look almost like snow is still on the ground.

Musical Statistics | Just Whatever

Musical Statistics | Just Whatever

A wonderful Birthday

What a perfect Bday. I got to spend the whole day with Linda. Unbelievable snow; gorgeous day; snowboarded all morning, lunch on the the river at River Ranch then we rented snow shoes and treked out through the meadow and out the pier. This really is what birthdays are for!! Grammy S is coming up tonite and in theory tomorrow she, kim and I are skiing....well they are skiing I'm boarding and Linda is studying at the lodge.

Mike

Happy Birthday Uncle Mike O'Dell

great 9-1-1 call

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Honey Pale Ale

Tom and Thomas bottled the Honey Pale Ale that had been brewing in the kitchen. Two weeks and we get to find out if they succeeded in capturing the essence of Honey. Bear and Jamie just watched. They did not appreciate Bear's help.

Camping RIO HURTADO

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We went camping the last weekend of our summer. The kids are in school now as of today. Wanting to share some pictures and our experience 4 hours into the Andes, camping very much ALONE as Mike likes it. Kelsey caught the first rainbow trout a few hours into our first morning, gave us all hope for the weekend. We finally did all catch and release, and catch... and eat. The fish were ¨running¨, always helps make a fishing trip a good one, eh. And it was great to have our teenagers all to ourselves, and the little ones of course loving family time and marshmallows and all the scary stuff around a campfire...bear and puma stories, Mike is always good at bringing up scary stories when around flames. And he told us how John and he would stay up WAY after everyone else turned in and make animals out of the coals as the fire died. And told us, not for the first time by any means about his Mom, her love of hiking and girls scouts and divying up the pouched food by each hiker´s weight, hiking and camping for weeks, fishing and sleeping under the stars in Coffee Creek. Shared with us about his Dad, not being such the hiker, (If you wanted a pack mule you should have married one, etc.) Much more a beach house club house guy. (Is that Uncle Tom? I believe?) John the Eagle Scout. Linda the Girl Scout by her mama´s side.
We did have a dead car battery ordeal that we made good within 3 hours thank god...car packed, I turned the engine to warm her up, tick tick tick, tick tick tick. OMG! After Mike walked a few hours looking for a car, a truck, anything, one finally passed. We really thought we were stranded for another night and well, we were done camping. Ya know, when you are done with the camp thing, you are done. Anywhooooo, we were saved by two great goat farmers, heading into the Andes for goat´s cheese. They had a wonderful little car battery they immediately pulled from their wonderful little car and hiked down the road to our diesel automatic biggish jeep. It worked! And we love them for life, I gave them our last two ¨boxes¨of camp wine, they were all smiles. We were too. I think Cadi and Josie were in prayer position at that moment of truth. Please God, Please God. Well, campers not quite like their father, but we always do love to give it a try! Okay, lots of love and smiles to you all...boo hoo, our summer´s over.