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.

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Okay Okay.. Wind Rivers Trip

Alright! I'm Lazy! I haven't been in the blogging spirit! so Ba Freakety Hum Bug.. Heres a slide show:Click on the Pic

I'll Add more when I'm motivated. Love you all! You better plan next year in Sep coming with us!,
Brendon

Visiting Our couzins Jen and Tyson

Jen and Tyson our only family in CO invited us to come to a BBQ It was great! we got to meet all of Tyson's family. I didn't take too many pics but, They are great.

Tyson and Silly Lilly
DeNae getting beat in checkers by their neice. It was some good food and thay are the best! Sorry I don't have any more pics. I wasn't in the Papparazzi mood.
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July 4th FUN!

Well, sorry it's been a while since my last blog. To be honest I'm really not that sorry!.. Anyway> We had a great (AND BUSY) 4th of July. I was originally suppose to work all the way through the 4th but with smooth talking I was able to ge the actual 4th off. I had to work all the way up to it and then go in at 2 AM the day after but..I got the 4th off. The Nordfelt's , good family friends of ours invited us to come along with them to Vadauwoo WY. It's just right over the border:It's a little over an hour drive and the rock climbing is incredible! Brady and Erika are like professionals.. anyone is a professional compared to us! Anyway we climbed a section called the chimney or something and then we got to repel about 150 ft down it was amazing! check out a slide show:



All and all it was an amazing trip. It's great to have some really good friends that aren't wimps!

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Scout Camp Troop 582

Well I went to scout camp. It was a lot of fun and I have some really good kids! It was at Ben Delatour in Colorado. Among the piles of merit badges that the kids earned they worked on a copes coarse which is like 20 ft up playing with ropes, canoing, Hiking, ad of coarse playing a lot of egyption rat screw. Anyway here are a few pics:
Great Scouts Left to Right: David Briscoe, Chandlar Kall, Dylan Edder, Walter Brink... Sorry if I didn't spell those right. I am lucky to just spell my own name right!
Brendon, Jack Pixlar and James Halgren taking a hike... Handsome fellas eh?
Dylan and Brendon on the Copes corse. It took most scouts around an hour or so to finish the corse. Dylan finished it in less than 10! that kid is amazing!
Pretty High Up! Dylan says " I don't think that my Mom would like me doing this.. This high!
Dylan and some other kid from another troop working together to climb this 'Giants Latter"
Working hard as a scout master
This was a Birthday present from DeNae. It's a parachute Hammock it weighs less than a pound.
Dylan was belaying Jack =155 lbs. Dylan=80 =Dylan straight up in the air! Ha HA

All & all it was a fun trip and I'm excited to have some fun with our new scouts Dylan, Walter, Chandler and David. Goods kids that are fun to tie into a pretzel! HA HA
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DeNae Pretty Girl & T.A.K

When i was younger my sister Megan used to do funny things and have funny sayings. Most of these my Mother didn't approve of. A few examples are: Pinching, honking, or "good-gaming" our butts. She also had plenty of funny sayings like T.A.K. These sayings in disguise could be said in front of out parental units and still have the same effect without the spankings. T.A.K= Tough A@@ Kid. Whenever I think of T.A.K I think of DeNae. Sure she can work 14.5 hour days climbing and pruning trees, Kayak, Mt. Bike, Climb, Camp and look like this:

But, after a quick shower I also get the beauty queen like this:

Even with a new haircut.. I am also noticing that we had Nacho Libre on in the back HA HA! I am the luckiest guy alive. I love my T.A.K DeNae,
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The Kayaking Transport

DeNae, Blu, and I went Kayaking Yesterday at the Poudre river. It's kind of tough when you only take one car because you have to drive to the top of the run, then kayak down, then 1 person (usually me) has to hitchhike back up to the car and then drive back down and load up. WOW that was a run-on sentence.. Sorry Mom. We can't afford to take 2 cars anymore with the price of gas so here was our solution:

That's right. We loaded up the Waltons new scooter that gets like 100-120 MPG in the Element. Fit like a glove! While DeNae was rolling her eyes at first.. she changed her tone after she saw this:

Okay, Okay DeNae you hated it even more after this but, it was fun and we got a lot of honks and laughs. Blu said " I love Brendon.. he tries lots of crazy stuff.." A.K.A= Brendon's an idiot.. but I like to be one with him. Anyway it was a succesfull run and it was fun!

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DeNae's Delicious Burritos

DeNae's Delicious Burritos.............. try saying that 10 Xs fast!
At work I eat a breakfast burrito every day that cost me $3.99. With gas costing 100 bucks a gallon we are trying to see where we can cut back. We bought a ton of breakfast burrito stuff and got cookin and wrapping:

DeNae cooking up a storm



By the time all was said and done we made 25 Breakfast Burritos with all the fixins (Eggs, potatoes, sausage, salsa, cheese, peppers, and onions MMMMM) it cost us aprox. $17.00
If I were to buy 25 Burritos @ 3.99 =$99.75 so we saved: $82.75 Pretty impressive Eh? Hooray for being cheap and Hooray for DeNae!!!
Finished Product TAA DAA
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Vacation to Kentucky

Thats right we took our 1 paid vacation to Kentucky... Why you may ask... Because we wanted to... Okay you still didn't buy that. DeNae's parents Tim and Ruth Ann and her sisters Abby, Emma & Eve live there in Nicholasville KY. IN the picture Left to Right: Jason, Audrey (Who live in TN) Ruth Ann, Eve, Abby, DeNae, Emma and in the back Brendon and Tim.
It was a really fun trip! During the majority of the trip I spent the time making fun and beating up Abby, Emma and Eve. DeNae loved it because it "gave her a break".
Brendon Bugging Abby
We started out by just relaxing.. Novel idea huh! Grandpa Baxter was there for a day while we were. It was nice to see him.
Then we went to Red River Gorge which was only a few hours away and disproved all my thoughts that there was nothing to do in KY unless you drink burban or smoke tobacki.. here are a few pics and video from that:

Emma and Eve excited as always to be teenagers on a family trip.. HA HA

DeNae At a lunch spot at Red River Gorge


DeNae and I on top of a giant arch.. See there are beautiful things in KY.. Okay, Okay Megan Kentucky.

DeNae and Brendon contemplating jumping into the water into a shallow pool.

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Brendon doing it.
We also went caving It was a blast!:
Click Here to watch us caving

We did a ton of fun things and did a lot of cool stuff:
DeNae playing Dress up.
Shootin stuff with Eve's pellet gun and chasin fireflys:: Ha HA:
Follow these links to see some other funny videos on UTube:
DeNae's Backflip Swing style Click Here!

Chasin Fire Flys. Click Here!

CHOO CHOO Click Here!

Abby Rude crawdad Awakening





I love the Baxter's so much. I was so lucky that I married into that family.. HA HA they didn't even have a choice or I can guarantee they would have nothing to do with me.

Baxters House

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