300

Well here it is! My 300th post.  I have to say that is quite a big number and here is to many more posts to come.

So on Facebook I posted this picture:

Champ got a little to close to a porcupine on The Moncur Boys' 8th annual Backpacking Trip. Some of those quills went straight through his mouth and into his gums. Others were in his nose, and on the inside of his thigh. JaDee had pliers in his fishing stuff and patiently pulled them all out from 11 PM -1 AM. Most dogs need put out for the procedure at a Vet, but our ever good dog sat through the whole ordeal.  He had little choice: it was 3.5 miles to the car and about a 50 mile drive to the nearest vets office. 

It probably didn't hurt that Carter and Ethan were praying for him, either.

After the quills were removed, Champ spent the rest of the trip diligently guarding camp against spuirrels and napping under trees.

Here are the rest of the pictures from their trip:

It was dark by the time they got to the trail.  Every twig that snapped was interprtted as a bear coming to get them.

It was a little buggy.  But fish were caught by all!

There are my boys!

Yes, what you are seeing is indeed a crapper in the forest.  Apparently they grow quite well in these parts.

WOW!

 

 

So what did Livs and I do? Well I had a migraine on Friday and managed to get it under control enough to take her to McDonald's for 2 hours while I read my book.  Then Saturday I cooked a huge pot of soup for a Stake dinner that the Relief Society (or look here and here too for more info) was in charge of for Stake Conference weekend.  Oh, have I mentioned that I am now the Second Counselor in the Stake Relief Society? Yeah, we do a lot of dinners! So Saturday was me and my counterparts doing the dinner and Sunday Livs and I went to Stake Conference where we got a new Stake president.  Then Sunday afternoon I cooked some more to have everyone from our new presidency over for dinner.  It was a busy awesome weekend!

A fall tour around the house

Ethan practicing his archery skills.  He is really quite good!

Champ guards the bird feeder from those pesky squirrels with a vengeance!

This is my favorite tree.  I have a window that frames it perfectly.

Here is Olivia's play house nestled in the woods.  She spends most of her time in here making mud pies and yelling for dad to kill the spiders.

This is our house. Notice the 3 car garage only houses the broken bug.  We have about three weeks until we start having frost in the morning and the van will need to move in.  We got rid of the extra fridge (one of two extras) and the extra washing machine so there might be room for the bug in the 3rd bay once the bikes get hung from the ceiling for the winter.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Can you see that big set of mountains way off in the distance?

This is what I get to drive home to...

another counter?

We all know and love the moose counter over in my side bar. I have recently added 4 more so we are fast approaching the 100 mark for a Moose-Tacular Giveaway.  Another count ought to be noted on this here blog...I am almost to post 300. 

But the counter I am most contemplating is the one I will title Homeless Guy Peeing in Public in Anchorage.  That count would be at 2, if I were counting.  Sadly, I can do just that.  First there was this guy who had the decency to at least be in the proximity of a tree.  And then there was the guy I saw today, again ON THE WAY TO BORDERS! that was in the middle of the park right next to busy Minnesota Ave, for all the world to see. Luckily the sun was out and since my eyes are so not used to seeing its brilliance I was saved a full Monty.  But as I turned my head to hopefully keep from vomiting (because yes it was a park, and yes there was a puddle, and yes it made me wonder if it happened here it probably happens everywhere), I did see the most brilliant rainbow.  I wonder...

Anyway, with that happy thought the last counters I am thinking of are these:

365 days until we see the end of another summer
108 days until Christmas
15 Fridays until Christmas Break (I used to do this in College to make the semesters go by quicker, because you can do anything for 15 weeks!)
We have lived here 632 days
I still have 5 pounds to lose from Ben's wedding


here are some pictures from our hike up the Winner Creek Trail yesterday with out friends!

The coolest part of the trail is this hand tram you have to use to cross this deep ravine with a raging river running under you.  It was so cool!

This is the raging river...

And tomorrow starts the last counter of all...my first day back at 6 AM spin class.

Good night!

All Hail....

I know some people have issues with this store and their design to take over the world but where else can you buy this:

for your 13 year old who loves the novelty of a microwave in the lunchroom

and this:

(Knitting needles). When I thought I had the right size to make the headband I saw at the fair last weekend and I didn't, I knew that if I went to Wal Mart for Hot Pockets I had a pretty good chance of finding size 9 metal needles too.

Take over the world or not, you gotta admit that for the totally random combinations of things on your list, you can probably find it here.

 PS- My dad works for them in good ole Arkansas...lets also just say that shopping here ensures my chances of getting a Christmas present from him! (*wink)