Haircut

I finally decided to get Ashlyn's hair cut the other day. I really didnt want to put it is constantly in her eyes and I could tell it was driving her nuts. I took her to the "salon" where Tracina's friend Candace cut her hair. When we got home I wasnt to sure about the cut but after a few days it grew on me.
Here are some before pictures:












Here are the after:

Elk Hunt

Saturday was the opening day of the elk hunt and we decided that we would go camping. We knew the weather wasn't going to be great but we didn't expect what we got. We decided to camp up Logan Canyon across the streets from the State sheds. We had camped there once before and really liked the area. We got up there and it was raining and cold. We stayed one night and decided we had better leave because if we didn't we would have never got our trailers out (We almost didn't get them out.) Steve pulled the horse trailer out first which was extremely scary because the truck felt like it was going to tip over. After about 5 minutes of this, which felt like hours, I told Steve to stop and Ashlyn and I walked the rest of the way. We parked the horse trailer at the "Pooper" and Steve and Scott went back and got the camper. We made so many trips up the canyon this weekend. We have done some crazy camping this year but this trip was the craziest. I was only able to get 1 picture the whole day and a half that we were there.

Shooting the BIG GUN

Steve decided that he wanted to cite in his gun so we headed up to the Gun Range.

The kids had a blast. Steve brought the 22 and we all took turns shooting it. Ashlyn was afraid when Steve shot the bigger gun but she had fun with the 22.

Riley loves everything that his dad loves so it was no surprise to us that he wanted to have a turn. He asked his dad if he could shoot the BIG Gun but that was out of the question.

I am glad that we are able to spend time together even if it is to shoot guns.

Campin' in a Parking Lot

Steve's brother Brian had asked us if we wanted to camping with his family in Wyoming. (He had a deer tag.) We are always up for camping so we said YES. The day before we were supposed to leave Melissa found out that she had to work all weekend. The camping trip ended up being Brian, Steve, Riley, Ashlyn, and Myself. What was I thinking?
We drove the canyon towards Jackson to try and find a camping spot. Little did we know but they close down all of the camp grounds Sept. 1st. It was getting late and the kids were getting tired so I really didn't care where we ended parking the trailer. I wasn't quite expecting to camp in a parking lot at the mouth of the Grey's River but that is where we camped. Oh well. The kids had lots of fun and what a great story it makes.

Grey's River

This year we went to the Grey's River over Labor Day weekend. The weather was so nice except for when it started to pour on us. We had lots of fun and as usual did some crazy things. Scott introduced the family to a new game. We brought Ashlyn's little red car for her to play with. Little did we know that it would later provide us with a little REDNECK action.




Scott and Jamie brought their BB Guns and the kids shot at orange targets. Grandma and Grandpa even took a turn.











Because our garden was overloaded with zucchini we thought it would put them to good use again. We let the kids make boats and then went up to the lake and let them float them.










While at the lake the kids were trying to catch baby fish.



















And as usual, Ashlyn is being her crazy self.













I had to include this very sweet picture of Ashlyn and Garry.
Marylynn brought up stuff for the kids to make their own ice cream. You put your ingredients into a Ziploc bag and put that bag into a bigger Ziploc bag that has rock salt in it. The kids had to shake the bags until the mix turned into ice cream. What a great way to have ice cream in the mountains.

Watching Diesl

We got the privilege of watching Diesl for a day while Tracina and Adam were on their cruise. My mom had been watching him but she got a job working as an Aide and Park School and Thursday was her first day. We were so excited to watch him. My mom brought him by on Wednesday night and told us his routine. She said to give him a bath and that after his bath he would go right to bed. We gave him his bath and he decided that he wanted to stay up with us and watch the Olympics. Around 10:30 I went and laid him down and he was asleep by 11. The next morning he woke up at 6. He was full of energy and just wanted to play. Tracina has always told me how much he likes to play in the water so we got our pool out and the kids swam for a little while. Riley and Ashlyn were freezing after 20 minutes but not Diesl. He just kept on playing. He didn’t care that it was breezy.
Diesl fell asleep while we were feeding him lunch and the kids had to have their pictures taken next to him.


















Riley and Diesl splashing












Diesl and Ashlyn

Ashlyn’s 1st Horse Ride in the Mountains

Steve decided to go for a horse ride on Sunday morning. Riley didn’t want to go and Ashlyn wanted to. I really didn’t think that she would go but she did. They were gone for over 2 hours. Steve said that she cried a little bit at first but that she was happy the rest of the ride.