Watch dogs

One of our favorite things about our dogs is that they like to look out our front window and watch the world go by.



Guess who is learning by example?

C'mon, let's look!



What's out there?



Did you see that?



I think I see a squirrel.



Mom, can we go outside?

Bumbo - the adventure continues

[I learned a lesson about blogging yesterday. No matter how carefuly I plan I still mess it up. I had such a great idea for the family, football, farm days postings. And then they ended up all out of order. Hope that you could still follow okay.]

On to the adventure...

Here are various poses from our Labor Day journey.

Pre-bedtime sit in Erik's crazy jammies



Again, big dinosaur little girl. It won't be too long and she will be crawling all over it!



First college campus visit. "Maybe I can be a Cat someday..."



"Lean toward the sun *little* flower" - Thanks Montana Grandma! It made it home in one piece.

Farm Days

...and The Museum of the Rockies. (To include that in the title ruined the alliteration.)

Three generations



Dutch Oven Cooks



Machinery and stuff



The Tinsley House



Big dinosaur, little girl



A prehistoric ride



You're right Uncle Erik, T-Rex DOES have big teeth!

Football

Family

Montana Grandma



Gramps



Uncle Erik - College Dude

First Day of School - Take II

Okay, so I was pretty much focused on my own angst and forgot the fun of the first day of school. Here goes daddy off to work.

Family, Football and Farm Days

This Labor Day weekend we traveled to Bozeman, MT to visit family. My brother Erik is starting school at Montana State University this fall and they had their first football game on Saturday. He is a music major and therefor in the marching band. If you have ever heard the adage, "If you don't like the weather in Montana wait five minutes and it will change", you would have been an eye witness to this. We went to the game in hot sunny weather and just after half time they cleared the stadium due to lightening threat. Wow.

Sunday saw beautiful weather for Farm Days at The Museum of the Rockies before the storm moved in. It seemed to drop 20 degrees in 20 minutes.

We woke up to rain on Monday morning and hit snow going home. Oh, wonderful Montana "fall" weather. But overall it was a truly terrific weekend. We got to spend time with family and friends, baby Etta got to "strut" her stuff and it was a wonderful time.

Hard to believe that one year ago we spent a family weekend in Seattle. Baby Etta had just been discovered. It seems like an eternity ago yet a blink of an eye.

Praise be to God!