Where Have We Been?

I know that Brendon and I have been really bad about updating our blog. I am posting just a few highlights of the past couple of months. There are certainly a lot of holes, but hopefully we can fill in the gaps. Unfortunately our camera was stolen a couple weeks ago after a break in. We hope to be replacing it soon. Over the past several months we have been able to see many of friends and family along with some beautiful places. We are very blessed and hope all of our blog followers haven't given up on us. I will be adding some captions when I have a little more time, and I promise it won't take 8 months.

Camping 101

We went camping a few weekends ago. Here are a few videos:



How to start a REAL fire:

DeNae with her successfull bow drill fire

How to chop wood and pick a great camping spot:

How to Hunt:

How to relax:

Over all it was good to get out and camp. Hopefully there will be pleanty more posts like this!

Okay..Okay..Okay Already........

I have heard "Hey Brendon when are you going to update your blog?" about 100 times from the following people:
Megan, Dustin, Mom, Brady N,Erika N, Chris S, and most important DeNae. Although DeNae said it a little more reluctantly. This blog is one thing that she would rather be in charge of. She always says: "You post the worst pictures and I can't do anything about them..". I say what bad pictures?



So, for DeNae I will try to keep the pictures I am posting kosher.
Anyway, I have some free computer time because our union is wanting to strike so, I am hiring 1000+ people and their training is mostly computer based. This frees me up to blog since the office is out of projects for me. Lucky you!


I think that here is the part where I should be apologizing to all our faithful blog followers (all 2 of them) for waiting 6 months to update this......Tough! Start sending checks for the quality entertainment you are getting and I will be more consistent!... I do plan on being better, especially if this strike stuff continues...


DeNae has been busy with: Achievement Day girls, cleaning up after me, cooking for me, biking, snowboarding, hiking, gyming---that didn't sound as good...and to add to her list Stake Camp Certification person. The last is the funniest. If you want a really good laugh call DeNae and ask her how her camp meetings have gone so far. DeNae is not a girls camp girl. DeNae is not a boy scout girl. DeNae has her own class of intensity, especially camping and outdoors. So when she brings up thigs like: digging your own cat hole to go to the bathroom in & decorating camp is definitely not a part of real camping.... the reactions are pretty funny!


I have been busy with: making a mess, eating DeNae's food, and work...work...work. I really like my job but do not like the time that I spend away from DeNae. I have had to drive to Denver almost every day working on special projects for this Labor dispute. I have been leaving the house around 5:30 am and not getting home until 8 or so. I don't know if DeNae and I are unusual for this but we do everything together. There isn't and activity that I do that she doesn't want to come along..visa versa. We have the same friends so we are always together and I've grown accustomed to this. So this has been hard for me being away from her. For many days they have just put me in hotels in Denver and I've slept awful! If it sounds like I'm dependant on DeNae, I probably am. I'm okay with that. I love her.

Mt. Biking @ Bobcat Ridge

for the 1st time that I can remember, I slept in on a Sat... Well at least until 7. DeNae and I enjoyed a whole weekend together. I was in Denver training Mon-Fri so.. even the weekend before thanksgiving I had a weekend off. We went to Bobcat ridge. It's an incredible, super technical trail about 20 miles away. The area burned down about 10 yrs ago and is just in the process of regrowth.. That makes for some amazing, unpredictable trails! While we were there we met some friends! We live in the outdoor celestial mecca! I love this place!


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Catch Up!.. This is a long one.. Hold On!!!!!

Okay.. So I'm a little behind in the blogging bus... But why would you sit down at your computer all day blogging when you could be playing. Here is what we have been up to:

Giant Hail Storm

Well it Hailed a hell of a lot of Hail.. HA HA. It was fun except....

After the storm we had no leaves on our trees... No garden left and.. we had the hide our car under the Tree.. It still amazes me what mother nature can throw at you!

FISHING AND CAMPING

We have been camping and hiking and fishing a lot.. Mostly with our friends the Archibalds, Nordfelts With their fun kid Crew, and Lance and John. Here are a few random Pics:

Tour De Fat

Fort Collins is a really cool, progressive town. A lot of that comes from CSU and the rest comes from the 8 Breweries within 5 miles. One of those major breweries New Belgium; puts on a "Tour De Fat" ride which basically consists of people meeting in really cool costumes, drinking a lot of beer!, and the riding their home made bikes throughout the town. Here are some fun pictures of it:

Ralphies Wedding

RRalph and Shambrey got married on September 22nd. They are incredible together. They look like one of those marrige couples. You know the ones that are on the frames when you buy them. They are an incredible couple! I don't know Shambrey that well but I know that she is a lucky girl! Ralphie is one of the best men I know.
The wedding was in SanDiego. It was right on the beach. We were a little late.. due to... technical difficulties.. but we caught most of it. What an amazing day.
In the pictures you will see the bride and groom, Rabbi, Jensen, Wandsguard and his little lady friend

Trip To Utah

We swore after the last trip that we weren't going to Utah anymore but DeNae's cusin Meliah got married and I was going to be out of town in OR with some training so DeNae drove to UT on Wed to play with her family and then I flew into SLC on Sat. We stayed with Hannah and Mike and had a fun time @ their house. They are saints for letting us.. because you know... It's us... Anyway we had a fun time seeing DeNae's Family and then on Sun Mom, Dad, Dustin and Monica came for dinner. Then the highlight of the night we got to see Mom and Dad play Dance, Dance, revolution.. HA HA HA HA HA!!! Then on Mon David, Hannah, Mike and Dennison and Momma Baxter went for a hike with us before we left on the exciting drive across 1-80 back to CO. All in all it was a fun trip.. Crazy!, But fun. Here are some pics:

Halloween

We didn't have time to find costumes but I knew that I really wanted to be Nacho Libre and have DeNae be the Nun. So Tuesday before Halloween we had a party. I went shopping after work and found some winners and then came home and DeNae sewed up a storm and here is what we looked like:

For some reason people were offended?? In fact Mom even wanted to disown me after seeing it.
I think we did a pretty good job puting them together in 2 hrs. For those of you that havent seen Nacho Libre (Mom) Heres a picture: you can compare and see how we did.:


Pretty Good Eh?
Happy Late Halloween! Here are some pics from our party:

SteamBoat Springs

Thanks to Megan and Aaron we were able to score a cheap trip to SteamBoat springs. Steamboat is a resort town about 3 hrs West of Ft. Collins We went with our really good friends.. well... at least They like DeNae.. I consider them friends but, don't know if it's mutual.. he he. Anywho, We stayed in a really nice place and had a lot of fun. We went hiking, and walking and toured the town. The highlight was trying to break the ice with giant rocks.. We are really lucky to have such great friends. What a fun weekend! Here are some random Pics and video:

Fun Fun Fun,
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Fun @ Dinner

Who knew that you could have fun at the dinner table. Just add good food with 1980's style glasses and you get this:


The 80s wish we were there!! HA HA.
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Boys Playing With their Guns.. And Girls Humoring

Gary, My boss and family friend "misplaced" his old gun... So we went together to get another. He decided on a Smith & Wesson 38 Spec revolver. This was a very nice gun but he hadn't shot it in 3 weeks and wanted to. Gary also understandably wanted to teach Cindy (his wife) to shoot. When I purchased my first gun I immediately wanted DeNae to do the same thing. Because... who knows. Cindy... was not excited, and nervous, and hesitant... This also is understandable. So the 4 of us with a friend Randy drove the long road to Pawnee Grasslands. And we shot guns:
Brendon with a .22 Randy with a 9 mm
Gary trying to not get shot by Cindy Cindy Pretending Osama is Gary

Our target Osama
Gary Taking out the target with his new 38

When it started to get dark we got out the Shotguns and shot skeet until we couldn't see. Then we still shot. Here is a video of the fire power coming out of a hand gun.

Thanks to DeNae and Cindy for putting up with boys and their guns. The End