Clay's First year of Football

2009 was Clayton's first year playing football. It was fun to watch how much his team and him progress into such a great team and he became the MVP.

Big # 60

At first he was mad that league rules did not allow him to be quarter back or carry the ball due to his size. ( for the saftey of the littler kids) He soon learn how fun it was to take out the ball carriers and quarter backs. So he felt justified in the end

He also loved the hard work.

Yes mom plenty of fluids

First game

Second to last game. If I remember right they only lost two games.

2009 Family food storage

As a family that lives in rural Idaho We keep the tradition of hunting for the majority of our meat for the year. With the exception of some lost photo's of Jennifer's and Hailey's deer, and no Elk meat for the first time in 9 years this is how our 2009 hunt turned out.

We spend the summer keeping our shooting skills up to par.

Cassidy's First deer

Better photo after unloading the deer

The girls are very competitive..here they compare the size of each others deer

Even though we only live 15-30 minutes away from hunting In three years I don't think we have ever returned home before dark.

Yes my deer was the smallest of the year..but in my defence I took the young buck with a bow at 56 yards.

We really need to put up a real meat pole this year!

Heading down the trail

Finally enough horses for the entire Family!
Cassidy has to ride the tallest horse..or so she says

Clays first time on my Mule

Hailey seems to like Cork

But I do not think Jen likes this ground pounder though

Time to turn around

Enjoying the sun

Earlier that month

First Lail Family Reunion

Jen's dad the eldest Lail at the reunion
The wild life

Grandpa taking the grand kids to see the wildlife

clay caught a bird!

cousins

Got to have horses

Trying to wake up

smores!

campfire stories

More horse rides

and more .

In short it was a lot of fun and we even camped th whole family in tents for 5 days!

And I think we would all do it again

White Christmas!!

When we dream of a white Christmas. This

Is not quite what we had in Mind. We were
Snowed in from Christmas eve. through the next

Monday morning. But it was good family time

And we learned what things needed add to the food storage.

About 4 hours after this you could get to the roof of the house.
This poor car did not get dug out for 3 weeks

But the kids knew how to make this fun

I think she may want to learn to snowboard

More sleding

And More

The road is somewhere behind my truck but we would not see it for three days

Jens poor car

We started a snow cave but know one wanted to finish it.

Still the only way into our house.

They finally told me they did not want to finish the snow cave. Because they thought they would have to sleep in it.

Misc. Summer activities 2008

Jen & Hailey coached Claytons baseball team

Our new colt

Cass showing her 4-H pig

Hailey showing her 4-H pig

on to the camp fire ring

Now this is the spot

checking out camp grounds

Looking into new housing

Finally found a rocking chair!

Our wards 24th float