Pre AR Trip - AR Trip - Post AR Trip

Mike has his annual gourd harvesting party on Thursday - before we left for Arkansas.

These are Karson and Aubrey Vander Ziel (Sue Leloux's grandchildren)

Aubrey, Karson, Jaycie Van Zee is in back, Mike and Sawyer - they were all excited Mike let them all take a bag home! Jamie helped too but she took this picture - I was at school for my last pie making day - Jamie is 8th grader and have lots of last time things that I need to help with this year - YEAH!!

On Saturday - the 10th we made our way to Arkansas and met Pugsley for the first time - he did not like us very well at first and jumped on either mom or dad's laps fast when we showed up.

Sunday afternoon we hiked at Roaring River - this is from the top of the falls there - it's quite pretty there at this time of the year.

I tried - not very good at the self-protrait pictures but you can see a bit of the trout farm in the background.

We did enjoy watching the deer each morning at the feeder - if you look really close their are two more in front of the big tree - they are watching the dogs coming up and yes they ran away right after this picture.

We ate supper at Famous Daves on Monday night - with everyone - I ate way too much but it was very good - I took this opportunity to take a picture with my sister-in-laws - love them both dearly - was great to be all together.

The Altena family - Love this picture too - the pig in the background with his arms open wide is such a nice touch :)

After supper on Monday - we all went back to mom and dads and Pugsley was way excited that night - he didn't know quite how to act with so many people around - Mom is trying to get him to settle down here!!

Tuesday was 4-wheeling day - what fun - Mike and I ready to go!! Make sure you take note of my nice riding gloves :)

Rich and Cindy ready to go - now note Rich's gloves - he couldn't find his and had to settle for these gorgeous orange ones - half way through the day - he asks me where I got my gloves and I said these are the ones Cindy gave me to wear - well they were Rich's gloves (I didn't know) we laughed about that - but he was just glad that he didn't lose them!

We went through alot of water that day - and made is through them all - fun - you can see my boots on both sides of the 4 wheeler - I was holding them straight out.

This is how Rich goes through the puddles after he sees how deep they are.

For this steep decline Cindy and I choose to walk down and wait to be picked up again at bottom.

Mike was leaning way back on the way down.

Well they needed to get back up and Rich didn't quite make it and got stuck here on a tree trunk. The rocks were way slippery from all the rain.

We had to get out the wrench to help pull him out of this one but all worked out well and we found another way to get the second 4 wheeler up.

Here we are under a tree on the way back - was truly a super fun day and something we don't get to do around here. Thanks Rich and Cindy.

Thanks to everyone in Arkansas we had a blast and was a super fun get-away. Thanks mom and dad for feeding us too all the time - we just finished off the party mix last night.

Well, we got back home in time for FOOTBALL FRIDAY and here we are bundling up the night - boots, rain gear, hats, mittens, winter coats and all - even hand warmers.

Western Wolfpack beat Sioux Center 27 to 0 - one more regular season game on the 23rd and playoffs start on Wed, the 28th - GO PACK