(FYI, Grub Club is our Thursday gathering of friends. If you’re ever in MT, swing by.)

We finally had fairly decent weather for our grub club, so we decided to build a campfire. For the first grub club campfire of last year we burned a dog house, so we had to come up with something fun and cool that we could do/burn…

Are those Pizza Hut boxes?

That’s right. We made a Pizza Hut Fort! Donald came up with the structure idea: using card stacking methods to build the different layers.
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After the horrible winter weather we had in December, January was pretty mild. We had a couple below zero weeks, but there wasn’t any snow or wind or anything else that would be considered “bad weather.”

I finally was getting used to all the snow. I was hoping to get 3-6 feet drifts, like we got last January… and it starts to thaw… Normally it doesn’t thaw until March or April, but our south-facing hill has been without snow for weeks already.

I saw the sun setting and decided to take a ride up our hill to see what kind of pictures I could get.

In this first one you can see the Mission Mountains and a series of sledding paths that we created in December and January.

Here’s a shot of our house and Bo, the extremely “skiddish” Wild Mustang.

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Here is the first half (hopefully) of the picture blog of my family (Mom, dad, brother and Grandpa Joe) visiting Ashanna’s House in Montana!

Enjoy!

One of the things we did was go to the local Museum:







AshAnna seeing who’s Bicep is bigger.

The Boys on a Teeter-Totter

This week we had the largest attended grubclub yet! We had over 25 people there!

We also hit the Flathead lake:

We visited Lee Kessler in Eureka:

And then went to a RODEO!!!

Look at all those shoes collected by the Lost and Found!

Just Kidding:

My parents should be sending me their pictures, and then I’ll have another update!

This was a great Fourth of July. This was the first time in at least three years that I was not out at Camp Cherry Valley (CCV). We also had Mike Hedge from LA visiting us. Mike is a (very good) photographer, and he took more than 900 pictures while he was here. Here is what we did on the Fourth of July through Mike Hedge’s lenses:

Here’s some pictures of our house:


(I brought these green urchin shells home from CCV)

Here are some of our Animals:

Our House:

Time for Breakfast:

Time to head out…

To the Lake:

We took a break and visited the Stanfield’s for a boat and some more photos:

Then Back to the lake:

For some water skiing:

We met up with the Grub-Clubbers at Pizza Hut…

And went off to do some Sparklers and Fireworks!

Happy Fourth,
AshAnna

These last to weeks were HOT, and it was time to hit the lake. The lake is still in the 60′s (which is better than the Pacific Ocean right now). We loaded up the boat with 6 people and a baby, and went out. To say the least, it was kind of windy (at least 1 foot swells). But we were going with the wind and I wanted to go water skiing.

And no one else wanted to get in the water, so I went for a quick run in the tube (emphasis on quick). I think I was on the tube for a minute before I finally got dropped out of the wake, and instantly flipped. =)

It’s been very hot up here, so I’m sure it’ll be nice and warm very soon.

-”I hate cold water”
-Ashton