More family times....

Scott and Renee and boys.

Trying to all look at the camera at once.

Hard to get grownups to all smile at the same time, too!

Cousinly snuggles.

Cute Jace.

These elk were right behind the house on the hill.

Winter snack!

Fischer and Chet eating some snow. They had been wanting to forever!

Fun in the mountains

Relaxing pre sledding/skiing.

Lots of pictures to remember the trip by. Chase having a little competition.

View from the back porch.

Allison going skiing for the first time with Grandpa G. Clayton is going too.

Lots of grandkids lunching between skiing and sledding.

It is fun going down...a long haul coming back up. Sledding just back of the deck. Doing some serious car driving in the house we are using.

A Snowy Day...

The horses looking for some hay...Day #2 of a winter storm warning. Chris headed out to feed.

Chris and Kate's house

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My house, and the snow is still falling, it is getting close to a foot by evening.

Photos from my house....

The sunrise is late these days, but well worth waiting for!! These pictures are taken in back of the house.

Cloudy mornings make beautiful sunrises!

This was taken out my front window...many elk!!

A mangy coyote...

In the old westerns, the gunfighters would shout..."You mangy coyote"....at their enemy! Well, here is a REAL mangy coyote! Their fur falls off, and they die of the cold. I believe that some kind of a bug spreads the disease...we hope our dogs don't catch it. There is medicine if they do.

Following the herd...

We found at least 400 in this herd of elk a couple miles from the house this afternoon.

They seem to form a line that goes on and on....

There are quite a few bulls mixed in with the cows.

The past few days in pictures....

Grandpa G checking out the deer in the backyard at Mahoney Park. Amy brought makings for graham cracker houses and snowmen.

It was serious business..

You have to hold your mouth just right...

The end result.

4 men in the tub.

It was the dads turn to oversee bathtime.

Friday in Des Moines.

cousinly camaraderie....

The parking lot of the mall at 1:30 am Black Friday.

Company!

Sally holds her own when playing with the boys...

Discussing the snowman building technique. Note the snowman on the ground in the middle.

Snowy Sunday morning

2 families had to cancel this morning because of roads and snow. Slick highways towards Laramie, and 4-6" at Encampment. The cat outside looking in... My wood wagon...

More snow...

Late fall pictures....

The clouds today have rainbows along the edges...maybe you can see them if you click. I looked it up and it is ice crystals in the cirrus clouds (caused by wind). The crystals are large enough to refract the light rather than scatter it. The way the wind is blowing, I am sure the snow is going straight up into the clouds!!The other day, the snow came with such force from the side, that it drove the snow into the pine trees...kind of pretty!

We have had some beautiful sunrises...

These deer were outlined on the skyline...

I brought them up close with the zoom.

This fellow was posing.

He looks good coming AND going!