Crazy Daze 2014

 The water balloon filling team!

 The Blue Coat Gang watching the golfing events!

The Golfing Clown!

Backwoods Betty Crocker!

Cookin' dinner at Lost Trail Hotsprings!

Oooooooooooh Caaaanaaadaaaaa!

Who goes to Canada in the winter!? We do!

Packin' the car with WAY too much stuff!

This is what -25 degrees Celsius will do to a wet swimsuit!

Off we go!

 Trees in the park.

We LOVED the mountains!

Cruisin' through a meadow in Banff.

Mount Rundel - SWEET FAULT!

Oh Canadians.

The world's largest dinosaur statue thing in Drumhellor.
That's me for scale right there by the toe!

Calgary sun.

Laura and Ellie showing off their skating skills

on the Olympic Oval speed skating track.

Cross country skiing in the fabulous foothills of the Rockies. 

This is the course where the 1988 Calgary Olympic Nordic events were held!

Gravel roads and beautiful skies.

There's no time to shovel when there is skiing to be had! -Fernie, B.C.

The Goodwill Ball

No words are necessary . . .

The progression of The Do

All the ladies.

My ma' n me.

Neighbor Jim, Zeebk, me, n' Bob.

Helen the Librarian and Doc Rock

The Mountains Are Calling, And I Must Go

It's been a crazy weird winter, but I've been enjoying it still. I have been out and about quite often, but I have forgotten to bring my camera on most adventures. Whoops! But here's a glimpse of what I've been up to.

The cold snap right before Christmas made for some fantastic skating! I went out every day I could and after work a time or two as well! It was just toooooo good!

 Mother Nature Zamboni and some crazy clouds

Then we finally got some snow! I took a trip up to Turner for some pre-season poaching and it was INCREDIBLE!

 The old trail sign that used to stand at the summit.

 See that one track? The only on there? Ya, that's mine. :)

 And that's what a happy skier looks like!

 Beautiful sky.

It hasn't snowed enough to do any damage since before Christmas and I've had my fun cruisin' the groomers, so I decided to take a hike up Taylor Peak. We didn't make it to the peak, never really intended to. We probably made it about three miles up the trail, just to the top of the fog line, before we headed back. The days are getting longer, but they're a bit too short for long mountain days still.

It was a frosty wonderland in the areas where the fog band

has settled on the mountains in the days past. It was very surreal!

Underwater picture!

I totally forgot about the underwater photos from the summer. Madison brought her waterproof camera to the lake over labor day and we snapped a few photos, but here's just one. :)

Halloween and a bit of Dia de los Muertos. . . Better late than never!

Betty Rubble

Madison the . . . creepy butterfly?

A windstorm swept through Missoula just as the parade started and pretty much froze us all out. We were so cold after the parade that we only watched a little bit of fire juggling and other circus activities and then we headed to the haunted house! Here's the only image I have from the parade, thanks to Madison!