changes

so it started innocently enough. andy wanted to shave his head for florida & rowe offered his services.

and then, a blond headed someone followed suit.

and then it was done.

i'm still moderately traumatized, but rowe is loving his new look.

warmer

so to give idaho some credit, it has warmed up a bit. the proof is in the mud puddles.

miss pinkie pink

& miss pinkie stink

helpin'

so the kids have been such a huge help with all of the packing, as you can see.

thomas

found these of poor thomas getting man-handled by chap. and then rowe took thomas's place.

offfical

so the season is officially over. we had the staff party last night & we all dressed up and had a great time. sweet eileen took some fam shots before the big shin-dig. the chaos of a family shot is pretty well documented i believe.

eileen and the babes

me & the hubs

me & eileen. andy got a little close on this one, but it is one of the only shots that we have together.

the stinkers being sweet, woody in tow.

and lastly, the open mouth smilers. andy thinks it is a 'stroud' thing. i'll blame that on my dad, no problem. love ya, dad.

grouse

so i guess there is a little bird called a sage grouse that is pretty much gone everywhere in the country except here. so andy and a guide from henry's fork anglers went hunting a couple of days ago and he said it just magnificent. you are only allowed to shoot 1 so the population is managed, but not threatened. anyway, andy said that it was so beautiful so he convinced eileen to go with him this time. she has been having quite the western experience lately . case in point: firearms. she had never held, let alone shot a gun, so some of the guys from the lodge the other day took her along and let her shoot some clays. you'll have to check out her new firearm friendly facebook profile pic. the gun looks bigger than she is:-) so here are the big hunters on their way out today.

playin'

let me just preface this post by explaining rowe's winter wear. we have found a new home for ALOT of our stuff lately. some things which might have been a bit preemptive. like rowe's winter jacket. i mean, do you really need a winter jacket in florida? surely not, but maybe i should have kept it a little big longer with all of this crazy idaho weather. no big deal though, thankfully chap had a second and rowe managed to squeeze it in, so on to the pics.

since the coldest it gets in chokolaskee in january is 78, we are all enjoying this little bit of winter while we have it:-)

trying to catch those snowflakes. too funny.

over

so fall is over i guess

aspens

aspens on our corner

boots

gotta love rain boots with a princess dress.

ps thanks, lac, for the dress.

clothes

here are sweet eileen and chap playin' at the playground yesterday

i think it takes moving to realize how much stuff you have. it never seems like there is that much until you have to put it in boxes. anway, sweet eileen and i packed up the kid's clothes & we had a florida pile and a tennesse pile and a 'have never worn that all summmer' pile. so that last pile we are keeping and wearing for the last week in idaho and then sending them on their way to some idaho families. so, this might explain the stinkin' cute outfit chap is wearing. this outfit was in the 'really cute, but still never worn' pile.