Baby it's Cold Outside!

This is my idea of what winter is all about! Raeann is intently watching one of her favorite movies "Elf."

Raeann has been so good with the tree. She checked out the ornaments on and off for the first day, but hasn't paid much attention to it since then.

Big Rainbows

The first picture here is a big rainbow my buddy Andrew caught. I got a picture after I helped him land it.

Well this past weekend I caught the biggest rainbow trout of my life. He was super old, but he was big. I let him go, so hopefully he'll spread he genes.

Beautiful Colorado

Beautiful place fore sure!

A few fishing pics

Some great times fishing out here!!!!

I did a bunch of fishing this summer and caught some great trout. Lately I have been catching some salmon. It is pretty cool catching Kokanee (landlocked Sockeye) salmon and huge trout out here.

October visit

These are just random pictures from when my parents and grandma came to visit this past week. Mike and I had conferences two of the evenings and were grateful that they were here to watch Raeann. They had a good time going to some mountain towns a couple of days and working around the house.

visiting Ouray...

a good ole grandpa wagon ride!

looking at the water under the bridge

Raeann thought the cornhole boards that Dad had been building and painting all week were great for walking on

wearing Mom's slippers

and her hat

visiting Telluride

interesting fish

The first thing I had to say was, "What's wrong with their mouth?" These are land-locked sockeye salmon that Mike and Goon caught in the Black Canyon. I guess their mouth does that when they are breeding? weird...

Color Tour on Last Dollar Road

Yesterday morning we took a scenic road to Telluride called Last Dollar Road to get some good family pictures and pictures of the colors on the trees. It was the perfect temperature and time to go.

Raeann did really well and loved getting out of the car to explore the leaves, logs, sticks, and trees that we don't have in our backyard.

Peek-a-boo!

Smelling a leaf

Such a sweet picture of Mike and Raeann

Taking off on her own - she's so independent!