Well golly gee, this is my first post ever.  May I first say thank you to you Jamie for the many hours she has put into our family blog posts.  They have been a fantastic family journal to look back on.  The books printed each year are a blessing.  

At this point in our little families life, I want to express my gratitude for the many blessing we have received from a loving Heavenly Father.  He has been so generous to us.  I feel his love and concern for our family so very often.

For todays post I would like to share one of the fun things I was able to do with Caleb and Easton a couple of months ago.  We packed up three back packs and made the 5.5 mile trek to horseshoe meadow, which is on top of Pine Valley Mountain.  The boys packs were each between 16 and 17 pounds.  Mine was a slightly heavier.  We started off at a good pace.  Grandpa Holt went a little over half way up the mountain with us and packed some drinks for us.  We found a patch of rasberries about half way up.  It was a refreshing break to eat them.  It took us about 4.5 hours to get to the top.  The boys did great.  We made a little shelter rough style for the first night.  The first morning we woke up to  see three 4 point mule deer eating in the meadow in front of our shelter.   We spent the day rolling rocks  , hiking, throwing knives, improving our shelter, playing games, attempting to build snares, and much more fun.  We had a great time together and plan to make it a yearly tradition.  I sure love these two boys and am so grateful to be a part of their lives.