(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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On this day, the Sanders Family + Grampa Joe went Rafting with Flathead Raft Co. It was the most fun we’ve ever had on a river, and Grampa Joe cannot stop talking about it (even months after). I’ll let the pictures do the talking:

Talk about crazy fun. Everyone was smiling and laughing afterwards. At least half of the boat was very worried/scared about flipping, but in hind-sight are very happy that we did. It was a blast.

-AshtonAnna

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

Hi All,

Well I haven’t blogged in a while but I guess I should talk about my great summer!! Ash and I bought that cute little house in Feb and I decided to start my first huge garden and used every square foot possible to plant all kinds of vegetables and flowers. I counted up 11 kinds of vegetables and 9 herbs and 40 types of flowers. I had so much fun starting many of them from seed and watching them grow. I can’t even tell you how many peas, tomatoes and zucchinis I picked. Now it is Oct and everything is dying I wish I could keep all these healthy plants alive but that’s Montana!

Hello,

To summarize the last couple months of our life:

3/13/06: Anna and I bought our first house!
3/27/06: I popped the question and Anna Said “yes”

May: Ashton found a little kitten running around our yard and adopted her! Her name is Mocca (or Mocha, depending on who you ask =])

5/29/06: I got on a plane and left my two girls in Montana. =[ I think about them constantly, and can’t wait to see the love of my life again.

Muah!

-Ashton