Meet Trickett!!

Jon and I welcomed the newest addition to our family late Sat. night. That's right, our horse Asia finally had her baby! And when I say finally I really mean finally!!
We took her to get bread to a beautiful Paint stud last year which would of made her due the end of April. Well, April came and gone and still no baby. Maybe she's just overdue?? Another month went by and another. We couldn't figure it out because our usually trim horse was still getting bigger in the mid-section.
Finally in July we took her to the vet and he told us it should happen within the next month. That puts us into August. So obviously the pretty Paint stud wasn't the daddy.....it was our own stud at the time, Scout, who is now "fixed!" Better luck next time!

September 20th (five months later) she finally delivered....Yea!!! A little Bay stud colt. Uncle Clint came up with his name...Trickett.....cause he tricked all of us! Asia's a very good mama! She's always been the "mother" to all the horses we've had. It's about time she got to experience having one of her own. As for our other two, they just act like it's no big deal.

Look at these two cute, little babies!!

FAMILY

Family is everything to me! I would be lost without them.....any of them, which is how all of us have felt for a very long time.
Just recently my family was re-united with my oldest sister Kelli that we haven't seen or talked to in over six years!!! This has been a long, hard chapter in my family's lives.

(L to R): Clint, Dad, Cole, Reagan, Kelli, Mom, Rori, Brittany

The last time we had a picture with all of us together like this was when I was about 7-8 yrs old. That's almost 20 years ago!

Last week my brother, Cole, who is attending law school in Alabama, flew in for a couple days for an interview with a Supreme Court Judge and my sister Reagan flew in from California to be here with everyone as well. It was amazing to have all six kids here all at the same time again. We ate a yummy fiesta dinner that my mom put on, much caught up on everyone's different lives, played Ligretto-a family favorite card game, and laughed a lot!
It's amazing after so many years how there is still that family bond that ties you together with an unconditional love.

All of us again with a couple of in-laws, grandkids, and Kelli's boyfriend, Jack.

(L to R): Reagan, Kelli, Mom, Rori, Brittany

HaPpY 3rd BirThDaY WhiTneY!!

So, belated Birthday really. It was August 30th. I'm a little behind on this posting buisness.

It's crazy how life cruises by and way hard to imagine that it's really been 3 years since Whitney became apart of our family. What did we ever do without her! She is such a fun little girl....a Daddy's girl!! One of her favorite things lately is pretending to go elk hunting around the house with Jon, shooting them off the walls with her toy gun while wearing her princess dress at the same time. I love it! She is such a little tom-boy and princess all in one. She cracks us up every day with something new. She has such an imagination. Her nickname "Whity" definitely fits her little personality. Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!

Say CHEESE!!

This year Whitney had a Princess party with her little friends in the neighborhood and cousins. They all decorated thier own crown, played kiss the frog, read princess stories and had lots of pink cake!

Mommy and Kiaya had a lot of fun too.

Look Mom, dad bought me my first gun. It says that it's for children 8 years and older.

Oakley's Blessing Day

Our little Oakley was blessed August 3rd. It was a great day and she looked beautiful! All three of my girls have been blessed in the same dress which happened to be the one I wore when I was blessed 26 yrs ago. It's been a fun, little tradition we've started. But the question is now...which daughter do I pass it down to??

Turpin Meadows HorsePacking Trip

This past August Jon and some of his good friends went on a 9 day horsepacking trip up in the Teton wilderness. They had been planning it all year long.

There were 8 cowboys and 17 horses altogether. They rode for over 100 miles up through Clear Creek, the Continential Divide, Hawks Rest, Bridger Lake, head waters of the Yellowstone River, Woodered Pass, Crater Lake, Big Springs to Turpin Meadows....one big, fat loop. They all had a pretty good time...to say the least. :-)

Woodered Pass.....love the horse ears!

Bridger Lake

Will & Spence Packer, Trent & Brady Hansen and Jon

This was Scout's first pack trip......he was a little tired!

Will Packer & Jon at top of Woodered Pass. 10, 931 ft.

OooHh BoY!!

The Continential Divide. One river to the Atlantic and the other to the Pacific.

Before the men headed on their trip they asked the forest service if they could replace the sign for them because the old one was old and torn apart.

"Uncle Fred" Hale, Jon Walker, Will, "Chief" & Trent Packer