~More Macro~

I love taking close up pictures of little things you can't really see...and as you may know, that is why I love to use the macro setting on my camera. Once I buy a DSLR camera, macro pictures will be even better. :)

Clouds and sky.

I love this one...Montana wheat and Devil's Slide!

Dad and Bennett installing the last window...in the garage. Bennett "accidentally" threw a hatchet through the only window in our house that we hadn't replaced yet.  So....Bennett not only had to help install the window, he had to buy it too!

                           

                                        

From the (enormous!) wood pile.

Angel sighting! ;)

Tilly loves to play on the swing set.

A ring on the swingset and Devil's Slide.

My favorite.

You think Tilly likes paint that bad to want to eat it?? :)  She was water coloring when I caught her!

Bridger Bowl Raptor Festival

On October 6th, we traveled to Livingston for Preston's last soccer game. A cold and windy one. We were told about the "Raptor Festival" at Bridger Bowl.  The festival, which is free to the public, centers around a raptor migration count of the largest known Golden Eagle migration in the United States which takes place at the Bridger Bowl ski area in the Gallatin National Forest just north of Bozeman. We didn't get to see the migration, but we just took a walk on the ski hill that we usually ski down...without any snow (for a while)! It was very cold up there, so we were all in our down jackets. :) There were lots of people and we got to see a couple of birds...

On our way to Livingston...fresh snowy mountaintops.

Walking up the hill (Virginia City ski run).

Fiona.

At the top of the hill.

More portraits...

 Some raptors.

The ski lifts.

Walking back down.

Making apple pie and apple sauce from fresh apples!

80°!!

Fall!

Fall is definitely here! The famous Montana saying is, "if you don't like the weather now, wait five minutes". It is so true! In the past week and a half, it has been 15° and 82°. It snowed on the mountaintops on the 3rd and there were snow flurries in the valley that didn't stick. The little kids weren't so excited about that. :) The only thing that did stick was the nippy weather....for a while. This week it warmed up to the high 80s!

The first "snow".

A couple of days before!

We got car stickers for our photography business. 

We made a big batch of Caramel Corn!!!!

Later in the week...15°. 

...and beautiful.

We watched a documentary called, "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" and have been inspired to start juicing. We asked Uncle Paul (who has everything we could possibly need) if he had a juicer and of course, he said yes. He is letting us borrow the big daddy of them all--a Champion Juicer!

It is really fun to use!

This was one of our first juices. Pretty basic. But since then, we have added lots more exotic fruits. It is fun to see all the different colors from the fruits/veggies!

It looks gross, but its actually pretty good!

Homemade strawberry ice cream....so good!!

I took Tilly and the pumpkin for a little photo shoot. :) I love this picture!

Dad has been working on a pizza oven outside and just layed down the cement. Bennett helped him and they got it done in one afternoon! Uncle Paul gave Dad a cement mixer and Dad put a new motor in. It works great! They hauled one wheelbarrow after another up the hill and onto the worksite. 

Dad layed the first course of cinder block yesterday!