We are, basically, just like every other family out there… Just because we have 5 times the number of children of the ‘average’ family… or just because we live in 1/6th the square footage of the ‘average’ family home… Doesn’t mean that our family is really much different than any other ‘normal’ family! While the […]
Just 12 for the road???
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Yep! and, actually, we have known all summer that Greg would not be going with us this fall. He really missed hunting and trapping, and all the outdoor Montana activities that we raised him on. 🙂 So, our little boy (who is, after all, 21), is staying here this winter. And we are pretty proud […]
this is just WRONG!!!
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The past week and a half has taken us from this…to this…and we haven’t moved an inch! We didn’t have much cool fall weather – it was beautiful out, and the kids enjoyed playing outside nearly every day. This past week, however, winter has hit with a fury, or maybe it just seems so as […]
trip to Grampa's ranch…
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this past weekend, Vaughn and the 3 oldest boys took a little trip down to my parents’ house to hunt for a few days. It was Jake’s first chance to hunt deer and elk – he could have last year, but we were having too much fun on the Oregon coast and in Arizona! They […]
WeeRide bike child carrier
When we sold the house, we got rid of all our bikes – either taking them to the dump, or giving away the nicer ones. We had never really been much into bike riding, other than the kids going on some short rides together or going to get the mail; the roads were rocky and […]
some of the RV mods we have done to our toy hauler…
Hubby is very handy, so when it comes to doing rv mods, I am blessed that he can do most of them himself, and I always know things are done right! Our rv did not come with a central vac, and I wasn’t happy with the systems that are put into rvs, so Vaughn researched […]
