IS IT MOOSE OR MEESE?

My daughter has been doing quite a bit of hiking lately

and is concerned about running into animals in the wild.

She knew we had spotted moose on the other side of

our ravine, but I assured her we only see them

from a distance and haven't seen them for a

couple of months.

WELL I WAS WRONG

ABOUT THAT!!!!

The moose must have got wind that we put in some

new trees in our yard that might be a bit tasty

and our sprinklers would make due as a drinking fountain.

We were quite surprised to look out our window

and see two moose in our front yard

completely stripping the leaves

off our aspen trees

and one of them picking up our rainbird

out of the ground with it's mouth and

taking a nice long sip of water.

We were pretty helpless to do anything about it

but watch and hope they

didn't cause too much damage.

Ron had to rake out their hoof prints

the next day since we just planted wild flower seeds.

Since we couldn't do anything but watch, we started making

jokes about whether to call them

Moose or Meese

since the plural of

Goose is Geese.

But we decided we'd better stick to moose.

At least they created quite a bit of excitement

to an otherwise dull evening.

Unfortunately, they showed up right at dusk

so the pictures didn't turn out. You'll have to use your imagination!

It's hard to top the excitement of the moose, but we

had another reunion at the cabin -

this time with Joe's side of the family.

These 2 have a blast together and get along so well.
Even though it didn't last long,
Berks and her friend had the sleeping area
for all the cousins set up meticulously.


Mason is the official driver to give
people rides on the 4 wheeler.
We told him he's the only
one we trust to drive it!


The new garage we're adding on -
still needs to be stained.

Two great buddies!

~Relaxin' on the beach~

~Enjoying the waves~

~Looking down from the loft~

Picture moment

by the pool.

All tuckered out!

Sailing - Sailing - over the ocean blue!

~Max & Joe had fun taking the kids

for a relaxing ride~

All covered in sand.

She also had fun

putting on her mom's makeup

back at the cabin!

~Taking a break from sailing~

The weather was a bit too cold to go boating so

we stayed in a lot and played games but got out

enough so we didn't get cabin fever!

All together there were 10 adults and 8 children

and still had places for everyone to sleep,

although one night we woke up to find Mason

sleeping on the dog bed by our bed.

Baxter was curled up next to him.

We feel so fortunate and blessed to be able to

share out little piece of heaven with others.

We have a feeling we'll be creating a lot

of fun family memories over the years!