We all wanted to wish you a very happy birthday. I wanted to surprise you and and drive there and take you out to dinner. I guess just saying that we love you very much and hope that you had a great day and a Happy Birthday will have to be enough. We love you.
Love, Dennis Lori and family
Jayla feels like a princess since she gets dressed up all the time in pink and cute dresses. She looks so cute in all of them.
Jayden and Jayla are true Bronocs fans. They dressed up for the Halloween party at Northern. He was the player and she was the cheerleader. They looked cute.
Jayden and Syrus had fun on Halloween Trick-or-Treating. I watched Jayla and Tevyn because it was really windy. Jayden was a Denver Broncos player, Syrus was a Cowboy, Tevyn was a horse, and Jayla was a pink leopard. We tried to take a picture of all four of them together but they would not cooperate all at the same time.
At the clients Day Hab (Northern) they had a Halloween Party. All the boys dressed up and they had a pizza party and games and contests. They had fun and I took the pictures. Chris dressed up as winged reaper, Clayton was an evil clown, Eric was Michael Jackson, Jesse was a werewolf, and Ryan was a zombie. They had fun. Bill was a state trooper and he arrested Michael Jackson. They had fun.
Dennis is now taking after me. He is starting to stop and take pictures of the beautiful scenes around him while hunting. He never used to do this. I think that I am rubbing off on him. He took them all to bring home to show me since he knew that I would like them. He took some awesome pictures while hunting. WOW!!!!
Wayne really wanted to get a big whitetail buck this year. Before bow hunting opened he took video pictures of a really big and tall whitetail. But during the bow season he never saw it close enough to shoot at it. Then rifle season started and he still wanted a big one, but after all the goat hunting and rock climbing, his legs and feet were so sore that he did not want to keep deer hunting and settled for this one. It still wasn't bad but at least he is done deer hunting.
Jesse drew a tag for a Mountain Goat this year. Ed or Dennis have never hunted for one and they were excited to hunt for one. They went out hunting several times and it was one of the hardest hunts that they ever have done. They wanted a billie goat and kept hunting hoping to find a big one. Jesse finally shot the biggest one that they saw and it turned out to be a nannie goat. His tag was for either sex but he did finally get one. After they got it they had to go back the next day to finish getting it out. They had to use a rope and rock climb up the rocks and mountain to get it. It had fallen a ways down and broke the horn and did some damage to the body. Jesse was excited to get it.
Dennis got a nice elk this year. It was during the cold spell that we had. They rode on horses way up on the mountain to get this bull elk and he had left the camera in the pick-up. By the time they got it back to the truck it had ice and snow so stuck to the horns. We took some pictures of it when he got home. He is not as big as the one already on the wall, but he was old. He base is bigger than the one on the wall and the Game and Fish think he is over 20 years old. They sent in a tooth to be analyzed and we should find out how old he was. They figure that he used to be bigger and was on his downhill side since his teeth were so wore down.
Dennis and Wayne went back to Jeffrey City to try to get their buck antelope. They both got one and they were pretty nice ones. It was cold and snow on the ground. This was during that cold front that we had here.
Jesse and Eric each had 3 deer to get. One buck each and two doe deer. Jesse got all of his and Eric got 1 buck and 1 doe. They had fun and both ended up with mule deer bucks even though they hunted the whitetail bucks first.
Jayden and Ryan Hannon were so excited for the snow that they went outside and built a snowman. They put horns on top of it and Jayden said that it was a reindeer snowman. Jayden has been wanting it to snow to make a snow angel.
The grandkids are growing like weeds everyday. Jayden and Syrus were making faces everytime I would get out the camera. The babies are growing daily and they coo and smile and laugh. Jayla just got her ears pierced at Walmart this last weekend. She has pink earrings in and looks so cute with them in her ears.
Dennis, Wayne, and Chris Hancock took Chris, Jesse, and Eric hunting at Jeffrey City last weekend. They got 12 antelope out of 16. Dennis and Wayne are going back this weekend to finish and get their bucks a a few doe they still need to get. They had a good time hunting.
Dennis, Wayne, Ed, and Randy went to Jackson on Randy's moose hunt. They had a good time and got a moose. They only saw two moose. One was smaller than this one that Randy got and was still in the velvet. It took them until 2:00 in the morning to get this moose caped and quartered and back to camp. Thank goodness for headlamps to see. They were happy to get this one and I'm glad they made it home. They had to stop in Yellowstone Park and sleep on the way home. They got home at 7:30 this morning. Dennis had a bear tag and was hoping to see a big black bear that a guy told them had been there in that area, but he did not get one or see one.
Dennis took Jannica, David and Wayne up the same trail in the Southfork that he had been
going with Northern every week. This horse is Buck, Wayne's new registered buckskin that he got a great deal on. He sure is an awesome horse. They loved the ride and thought that it was really pretty there.
Northern started a program for the summer on every Wednesday Dennis and another guy took all the clients that wanted to ride on a trail ride up the Southfork. Chris, Ryan and Eric rode quite a bit. They liked it.
The grandkids are growing so much everyday. Jayla is over one month old now. Tevyn will be 2 months old on Sept. 8th. Syrus is 2 years old. Jayden in 3 years old now and Saundra will be 11 years old in December. The new babies are getting so cute and growing so fast.
Saundra came back from being in Idaho only long enough to go to one Rodeo with the boys. They had fun and learned how to rope and Grandpa Dennis bought a couple of ropes for them all to keep practicing. They liked sitting on Hollywood the bull and they loved the clowns.
Jannica had surgery on August 19th in Billings, Montana. She had a thryoid cyst that got removed. Everything was ok but they took out the cyst and part of the neck bone that it was attached to. She is now recovering from that and on September 10th she goes back to the doctor here in Cody to see if she needs shoulder surgery that she hurt on the job with Schwan's.
Jayden loves to go help Grandpa Dennis with his horses and waters them and tries to rope them. (since he has been to the Rodeo too many times now.) He went out and wanted to learn to irrigate. He loved that, the getting wet part. He loved to shovel also. This horse is Buck, Wayne's new horse.
They have an annual balloon fest the 1st weekend in August. They lift off at the park right by our house. Then they fly right over my house. I took some pictures this year early in the morning from the backyard. They were some pretty ones with bright colors.
Jayden and Syrus loved tubing this year. They rode on the new tube with Jenna Baxter (Randy's Wife) They both rode one big circle around and they loved it.
Having Great Grandparents to come visit is awesome. It was good to have them come to see their new great grandkids. Mom and Larry came for a short visit and saw Tevyn. We hope that they can come back to see Jayla.
