A post before New Year's Day

Hi, we just wanted to make sure that we posted a little something before the New Year hits us! We are both looking forward to a great 2010. Our 2009 has been a wonderful one - lots of snow early in the year, a first birthday for our nephew Payton in Las Vegas, our first wedding anniversary, spent time with family both in our home and away, had a beautiful veggie garden, Earl got a new job which he is really enjoying (especially the winter break so far!), U of Montana Griz Football season tickets, and we got a new puppy, Porter. We also had a couple of sad moments but know that we have angels watching over us everyday.

Here is a picture of Porter with his new upland game bird - he's a bird dog you know!?! He loves his Christmas bird and loves to hear his call.

Here are a couple of pictures of Brian and Charlie and then of Earl and I sitting on a neat tree that we saw while hiking on a pretty but cold day at Bass Creek in Montana.

Earl and I had a very nice Christmas in Stevensville with Brian and Charlie, our time flew by quickly!

I would have posted pictures of our new RC plane the Super Cub but well...we'll save that for another time - maybe within this next year!

Lots of love to all, as well as, great joy for the up and coming 2010!

22 pounds of Porter

Porter is getting SO big, the first Friday we had him at home he weighed in at 14 pounds and now he is 22 pounds. He is just a crack up most of the time (Earl might tell you differently) but is becoming more and more brave around the house - that is both good and bad...my crocs and tevas are proof of the bad (at least they are still wearable)!

As you can see Porter likes to play with all of his toys at once

Just another shot of Porter and his Bird...not really the right kind of bird but it is a bird...