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!

Love you all,
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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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DeNaes Garden

Well... All that diggin up grass and planting paid off..... I think. DeNae says that we have a healthy garden and we will be seeing great Peas, cucumbers, zucchini, and tomatoes... I say they cost .25 at the store but.. Like John Denver says nothing beats the taste of home grown tomatoes. It's a happy little garden because it has a happy little gardener.. I meant DeNae.. I'll be happy when I'm eating my BLT! I sure hope the bacon seeds start to grow!
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Chocolate Mile Run Down the Puder Canyon

Normally the Poudre canyon water is cold and beautiful and clear like this:
Funny Picture Huh! Well we started to drive up to run an area called filter plant in our kayaks. On the way I noticed something disturbing.. The white water rapids.. weren't white. Kaleb Walton Our friend that came with us said " I think that there was an oil spill".. Thats how bad it looked.. Thats also how dumb Kaleb is!.. Just kidding Kaleb your not dumb... just slow.
We decided to still run it.. We were already there.. How bad could it be??:



Because we only had one car we took all of the gear up at the top and then I drove down and then hitch hiked back up. The guy That I hitched back up with was like " I don't know how smart it is to run this water". As he talked a little to me and realized that I couldn't even finish full sentences.. he agreed that running it would be the best thing. So we did. We just kept saying: "don't roll, don't roll!" well.. we all rolled and we were all filthy after:


I guess the water level was so high they opened the flood gates on a damn that they normally don't. It released all of the silt that had been storing up for years.The pictures don't do the dirt justice. Anyway it was still fun and after we sprayed ourselves and our gear off with the hose all was well!
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Trent & Lori Come to visit= Broken Bike

We always talk to people in UT who say "when are you coming her.. When .. When??" We always try to remind them that the road works both ways. Trent and Lori come to colorful CO at least 1 if not twice a year! We love it when they visit. The only thing we don't love is when we put the choo choo train on a new Mt Bike and the bike is unfix able after. .. Heres the story: Trent, Denai and Brendon went biking to Lori state park. We went up a Really big hill. trenton actually madi it up just fine. He is in pretty good shape:

Then Came the sketchy part.. We started to get into the more technical part of it and I heard a snap... not just your regular everyday snap.. It was a biggie. Trent had tried to push so hard up a hill that his bruit strength snapped the cassette Heres a Pic of what one is:

While doing this the Chain bent and pulled and broke the derailer then since he could'nt petal on the way down.. trying to hang on he broke the shifter knob and brake lever.. All in all the bike ended up looking like this:

Okay just kidding... I told trenton I knew it was a sacrifice for the bike going into it. Big trenton V.S Mid priced Mt. Bike = picture above. I actually won the bike for free at work for selling more Tea than any other store in CO. I wasn't too bummed plus he Lori and Train took us to Dinner and spoiled us for the rest of the trip. We sure love those two! We have such a good family... Where the Hell did I come from?
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