To the Girl of My Dreams

I love you. Happy first day of second grade.

Humphrey

It was my first year as a shareholder for the annual Humphrey Ranch Meeting. Humphrey, Idaho (no longer on most maps) and Lima, Montana (less of a problem showing up on maps but not much less) were the destinations of all my childhood summer vacations that I can remember. The stories, adventures, memories, experiences, and exaggerations are too many to count. It's definitely God's country up there and I love when we get the chance to visit. As I walk around with the Clones, I remember why I love it there. EVERYTHING else gets left behind, and you're just with the ones you love in a place that's special to your heart. Maybe it's a little bit like heaven. Except for the cow pies. And without further ado, here are the pictures and videos to along with our trip.

Crawdad hunting with the Old Man.

"Bait. Do No Eat." OK, I no eat bait. Thanks the warn!

Gotcha!

Got into a fight with Sister over the weekend. Apparently she is not a fan when Gary and I impersonate other family members in attempts to get out of financial obligations. Here is the end of the argument as transmitted via text messages.

Reggie putting on his shoes.

Cow hunting at the Ranch.

Roasting marshmallows.

The Naked Dance (diapers don't count as clothes).

Humphrey, bringing families together one hand-hold at a time.

How many bars does Humphrey have? ZERO. No service.

 

August And Everything During

For Adelaide, school starts in less than two weeks.

For Reggie, aa new season of Gold Rush starts Friday.

For me, the Raiders will start losing regular season games next month.

But before we get into all that, here's this.

Addie lost her third tooth (her first top tooth).

She wrote a sweet note to the tooth fairy who left her some money type things and a drawing of herself.

 We hit up another Bees baseball game in Salt Lake City. And once again, the Bees won it in the bottom of the ninth. Almost caught a foul ball. Reggie discovered corn dogs. And Addie thinks I'm obsessed with baseball.

 Turns out all the kids still like watching cartoons more than they like going to bed.

 And I finally took Adelaide and some old friends (Sadie and Madison) to Kangaroo Zoo to get our bounce on. She told me it was our best day ever. Probably because we got cinamon pretzel bites afterward.

Happy.

 Silly.

 Scary (I had to close my eyes while taking this one).

And for your viewing pleasure, here's The Dude driving me around town and enjoying his time on the slides.