Montana Football!

My friend Sean and I joined my cousins Garin and Randy for the University of Montana playoff game vs. N. Iowa. Sean and I made the quick trip over to Missoula and raced to the game. We had a great time and the Griz won big.

We had great seats.



Did I mention it was about 17 degrees!

Halftime . I had to drink for Garin and Randy.

G-Pa Russ and the culvert Project

Thanksgiving week was busy. Our culvert replacement project started and I worked all week helping out with the work. This picture shows the size of the new culvert....it's huge. Notice our house in the center of the culvert.
Grandpa Russ came up for Thanksgiving. We had a blast and he was a huge help. We had Elk for Thanksgiving dinner and also went to an NIC basketball game.

Grandpa calls this wrastling

Zane and Mom

Anika Turns One!

We celebrated Anika's first birthday with a small party. She enjoyed her cupcake and the attention.

Anika got a "baby" for her birthday and was very pleased and happy to give it hugs.

Our friend Julie and her family came over with gifts and also fun times. Look at that smile on Anika.

Carving Pumpkins

It was pumpkin carving night. We had fun making Zane's pumpkin. We forgot to take a picture of the finished product.

Happy Haloween

Here are our kid's in their halloween costumes. Anika was a skeleton and Zane was a "Mower Guy". Thanks to Gramme Mary Ellen for making Zanes shirt. He was the owner of Zane's Mowing Company. He had a mower bag for his candy. We planned to go downtown but I was out sick. Learn from me! Get your flu shot ASAP.

Ryan's ELK!

I got my first elk on Saturday AM. After all these years I'm a successful Elk hunter! I shot a large cow elk. It felt great and was a good experience. It was plenty of work too. I packed out all the quarters and hiked approx. 16 miles in one day. Kenny and Connie helped with the quartering and hiked out the rest of the meat. We have meat hanging and I provided for the family this winter! Thanks to my friend Kenny for all his help. Sorry for the poor quality pictures, all I had was an old disposable camera.

Fun Times

Zane and I went on a field trip to Carver Farms! I had fun with him and his classmates. We came home with pumpkins, gords and corn.

Uncle Tom came by for a visit. There is a new house being built. We enjoyed watching the pump truck do it's thing.

Tractor at Carver Farms