Will the crawling machine

So like 3 weeks ago I was going to post about Will and how he had turned 7 months and started crawling and stuff like that and here we are 3 weeks later and Will is nearly 8 months old. I have some video of Abby helping Will learn how to crawl. It's a little bit longer than what I'd like and you can hear Lizzie in the background complaining about cleaning her room but Will is still the star as he starts to scoot around. Will is now 7 months and 3 weeks and has really become quite the mobile child. I thought he'd want to crawl more on the carpet but he prefers the wood floors because he can push himself around a lot faster. After looking at his onesies and how dirty they are I remember why it's hard to pass on those 6-9 month clothes. Anyhow he sure is a cutie!

Rain + Camp = lots of muddy fun

Once again we found ourselves camping this weekend. We were able to go to another favorite fishing spot of my family called Potter's Pond in upper Joe's Valley. This time with my dad and all of his brothers. It was pretty rainy the entire time we were there but the rain parted long enough for us to get in a couple of fishing trips and a few horse rides and our new favorite past time mud slinging in the 4 wheeler. We bought a tent and tried sleeping in that this time around and honestly it wasn't that bad. So who knows maybe we'll get camping a little more now.

This is my uncle Lynn and Lizzie on Lynn's horse. This brought back so many memories of me riding along with my uncle Lynn.

Lynn's daughter Jessica (my cousin) and Abby. As soon as we got to camp all Abby wanted to do is be by the horses. Jessica wasn't quite prepared for the tantrum that came when it was time for Abby to get off. Uncle Lynn came to the rescue and insisted that Abby go for one more ride.

Abby was happy to once again get her way and actually came off the horse a little nicer this time around.

Lizzie made a new friend while we were camping and they found lots of fun ways to get super super dirty. This was a shot of their hands after making Mud balls the size of Apples.

This is the 4 wheeler after a serious mud slinging battle with the Mountain. Everyone got so Muddy while we were up there but i guess that's what you're supposed to do when your camping.


I'm having trouble loading a video of Jeremy on a serious muddy trail from my camera. We have more on our video camera but I need to buy a cable to get that on the computer. There were many many amazing trails up there. On our way back from one such adventure it had started to sprinkle and by the time we got back to camp it was hailing. Jeremy and I were soaked to the bone and had ding marks all over us from the stinging hail. It was such a blast!

Our encounter with a Kodiak!!!!!

When we were camping last week I failed to mention Jeremy's favorite part of the whole trip. I failed to mention it just simply for the fact that I wanted better pictures but I guess that'll have to come later. We went to Price before we went camping so that Jeremy could purchase a little toy for himself. He picked up a Yamaha Kodiak '05. It was a good deal and now Jeremy is just bustin' at the seams about his new baby. In the 4 days we were there Jeremy put over 130 miles on it which is a lot for a 4-wheeler. He was able to get it a little muddy and nearly dumped me off the back of it in an attempt to forge a river. It was great fun to have it for the trip and now we can't wait to get back into the mountains to dig up some new trails. Anyhow we only got a few pictures of it and it is currently waiting patiently at my brother's house for us to come pick it up on Friday. So here's a few pictures for Jeremy to help him get through the rest of the week without his new baby.

Me and my new arch nemesis (i guess it's ok I like to ride too!)

This is where Jeremy tried to dump me (I know it's not a huge river but that water was still wet and cold!)

Jeremy forging the stream sans Andrea so I could document the mud slinging.

You can't see it well from this angle but it was like a 2 foot drop into the "river"

Jer had to peel out here and the 4 wheeler was sliding and slinging mud every where. But don't worry Jeremy made it safe to the other side when we realized that I had to cross the river somehow...