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.