Christmas 09-Missoula

Christmas Eve we drove over to Missoula for Christmas with Sarah's family. We stopped in Helena for a stretch and to see some good friends, Rebecca and Greg. We spent Christmas Eve night at Mom & Kurt's, Levi joined us, and we all had a wonderful Christmas day there too! We enjoyed a delicious prime rib dinner and had fun opening gifts and playing games. The 26th we spent shopping and visiting with friends, more games, and lots of laughs. December 27th we had Christmas with Dad & Kim at their house in Nine Mile. Dad smoked a turkey, Yum! and we had another great dinner with them. Monday we drove up to Ronan for the day and visited Grandma Rubel. We saw a few of Bryan's aunts, uncles, and cousins too. We met Casey & Dustin for dinner, it's always fun to see them! We saw Shelci Tuesday before we headed back home. Overall, it was a fun and relaxing vacation, and we got a chance to see lots of family and friends-the way Christmas is meant to be!

Christmas 09-Judith Gap

Issac at Grandma & Papa Mauws'

Bryan, Issac, Jen, Logan

Issac and Destan

Kisses for Mom :)

Our Christmas Tree

Brrrrr!!!

8:00 this morning, December 8. Guess the temperature!

-30 degrees F!

We will be inside next to the wood stove drinking hot cocoa!

Gingerbread House

Issac

Issac and Timmy Ridgeway

Issac's new favorite toys-pots and pans. He loves "cooking" with Mom is in the kitchen!

Learning to climb up into Dad's recliner to get the remote

Got it!

Climbing on Dad

Hunting

Levi
Sarah & Issac's buck

Levi's doe

We had a successful hunting season! Levi shot a nice mule buck and a bull elk outside of Bozeman (I wish I had pictures to post) and then had a tag for a mule doe here in Judith Gap. Steve shot a whitetail buck over by Missoula. Sarah got this mule buck up on the Forest Service ground above the ranch. And Kim shot a mule buck in the same area the next day. Quite a successful hunting season for the family!

Projects at Home

Bryan has been busy building an entertainment center for the living room. It's finally done, and turned out so nice! He really enjoys woodworking, and does awesome work!

We started working on building a deck off the back of the house at the beginning of November. Here are a few photos of the work in progress. Thanks to Bryan, Steve, Levi, and Neil, the project got finished over the Thanksgiving weekend, but somehow I missed taking a picture of the completed project. I'll post one as soon as we get outside again (when it warms up to above zero F and the winds calms down a little!)
It's really pretty redwood, and we even have a fancy railing on 45 degree corners. Thanks to everyone who helped!