The pond and waterfall!

Erin poses with mason by the waterfall...these pictures do not do it justice!

Have some more landscaping to do around the pond but its looking awesome!

The deer and a fox have already been visiting the water!

My old Pal Abbigail has passed away

Abby died last Saturday....sad day for me as well as the Search and rescue Communnity we belong to...She will be missed very much.

Erins new teeth!

Erin got her braces off this week! She said her teeth were slippery!

Snow is on the way out!

Hey! Look what I found under the snow! And now its in the middle of the road!

Snow is almost gone...now I can see the amount of work out here that I still have to do!

Abby is loving it....we all forgot that there is dirt and plants and stuff up here!

Erin poses by a rushing river of snow melt off under the crusty snow still hanging in there...

Bobby gets a boo boo

Bob decided to throw his ROTC rifle up in the air and the gun sight sliced him open....good one!
He had the pleasure of a student doctor sewing him up!

Minnesota FAST trip!

Bobby and Erin and I went to Minnesota for a little rest up vacation! Yeah right! lots of driving, not much sleep but a lot of fun seeing everyone! Got to see Bob and his family, Kimmy and Dave, Mom and Jerry and Dick...fast trip for a week and felt like I needed a lot more time.....On the way home we stopped off at Reptile Gardens and had fun there, the last night on the road we got a motel with a pool and Erin had it all to herself! She loved it!

We enjoyed every minute of it, well maybe not all the driving!!!!!

At it again.....

Bobby seems to be in more trouble in this photo....
Erin has met her match I think!

Trip East!

Bobby and Erin ended up in some sort of trouble around Rapid City somewhere...

We visited Dick, Sammy was there!

Had fun in Duluth with Kimmy visiting this big old iron ore ship...

Mom and Jerry had scored some Honey !

Goodbye Gizmo, hello Mitsie

This is Mitsie, Erins new kitty, she is very loving! While you cant replace Gizmo we can share some love with this new fuzz ball.

Gizmo will forever be in our hearts....

April on the Mountain!

The Weiner

Here is the Weiner, Mason. he just wanted to say Hi!

My new pup!

This is Jaxson, sorry the picture isnt so great....I dont actually have him yet! I get him on friday...happy Birthday to me! He is almost 3 and a big happy boy!

Our latest big storm!!!

This is the deck yesterday afternoon, it was still coming down too. We got at least another foot of the white stuff.
This is looking out the window over the kitchen sink, it actually got completely covered up, I dug some of it out. Had to snow shoe in and get on my hands and knees to dig it out! I was knocking on the second story window at Erin when I was "up" there!

Whats been going on...

Here is Matt with his graduating class from Shepherd Air Force Base...he is the one way out on the right wing!!

Our latest snow storm...look at my roof slide! Very deep!

This was the night we got stuck!!! I will have photos of Bobs ROTC drill on here tomorrow!Need to down load that camera!

Little bastard!

This guy found the garbage we had stuck out on the porch, then the really "smart" folks in the house decided to feed him a hot dog! Then the cat went nuts looking out the door at him and if you turn on your volume you will hear her!

The loft comes to life

Nothing needs to be said here! Just awesome!

The kitchen is going into the loft!

Starting to lok like a kitchen! The island in the middle will have the stove and a bar area to sit at, will be very nice!

The work began this week, Bryce said we will have it done by this weekend!

All the changes!

Time to update this blog! I have changes at Ursa Pines to show you all! This is my new laundry storage that Bryce built me, very nice, I love it...soon that old white vanity will be out of there..something cool in it's place!

My bathroom vanity is completed! Cement sink and counter, log handles, very fitting in there! As you can see I also have a new log shelf on the wall, there are actually two of these in there...

Here is the solid wall of books in my bedroom! New log shelves Bryce made me and I want more!!!

Now this is one project I actually did myself! I built an otteman and its pretty cute!

This bear Sgt Hadlock made for me and Bryce put the finish on it, came from my own tree on ursa Pines land! He is very cute! And the desk is another invention by Bryce... keep em coming!

Matt was home for Christmas!

Matt came home for Christmas and I would like to say I have a bunch of pictures but I cant find my camera, so crap, this is it!