December 2010 Flooding!

So pretty my favorite!!!
The lower Reservoir water coming over the damn.

The upper Reservoir water coming over the spillway.

The upper reservoir at the boat dock. Only about 6-8 feet of boat dock available.

The diversion pond and water going over the spillway on it as well.

I was totally amazed at how much water we got. It was spectacular to see how much rain we got plus to see all the water running in every wash. We got a total of about 19 inches at a peak just behind the reservoir called Gutz Peak. When I heard that I about died I couldn't believe it. I helped sandbag when we had the January 2005 flood and I thought that was bad which it was. But having experienced it already people were a little more prepared and kind of new what to expect. We had much more water this time around than we did five years ago. A so called once in a lifetime flood has now happened just five years apart a quite amazing experience.

Seeing Santa

The last day of dance before Christmas Santa came to visit the girls. Most of the girls liked him and was excited to see him. There was a few that weren't so excited but that is usually how it goes. Addilee was really excited to see him. She loves Santa! They danced for Santa and Mrs. Clause and got to tell them what they wanted for Christmas.

Wright Family Christmas Party

We had the Wright family Christmas party on a Saturday night. It was lots of fun and the kids got really excited to open there presents. We had great food lots of fun and got to see people we normally don't get to see that often. My cousin Ryan came up and he hasn't been to Enterprise in a couple of years so it was nice to be able to spend time with him plus the rest of the family. We love you all and you know who you are.

Staheli Family Christmas Party

We had the Staheli family Christmas party this last weekend. We had lots of fun spending time with family, eating dinner, playing games, and of course seeing Santa Clause. Addilee loves Santa but Patton and Aspen weren't so sure about him. We had lots of fun. Thanks for the good times.

Addilee's dance

I enrolled Addilee in dance this year with Kim Drake's tiny tots dance group. They practice every week and they danced at the girls basketball game during half time. She looked so cute in her costume as with all the girls but I am very partial to one girl of course. She did really good I was surprised I thought she would get scared when she walked out on the floor and saw all the people watching. She had a hard time keeping pace or doing the right moves at the right time but hey she is only 3 and you have to start somewhere. I thought the dance was really cute and I enjoyed watching. The picture of Patton is when we were waiting for half time to begin. Thanks Dad and Mom and Meagan and the kids for coming to watch and supporting her we really appreciate it! I also took video and will upload if I can get it to work but I don't think I will be able to.

Like father like son

Ben has always worn a elk tooth necklace probably since we have been married. The tooth is the ivory's from the elk. He takes them out whenever we have killed elk and has a stock pile of a few because each elk has two. Well anyways back to my story. Patton always points and talks to Ben about his elk teeth on his necklace so Ben decided to make him a necklace just like his but on a smaller scale. So now Patton has a elk tooth necklace just like his daddy. And boy is he proud to sport it around.

Getting Christmas Trees.

We finally went and got Christmas trees this year. It didn't seem like we were ever going to go. I love going to get trees I think it is lots of fun and very beautiful all around us. We went to a place called Pine Grove to get trees this year and it was so beautiful the snow was so deep the kids could barely walk so I stayed at the truck with the kids while Ben and Sam went to look for trees. We came home with three trees one of us one for my parents and one for Sam. D.J. and Heidi were suppose to come but we never saw them then later found out they got lost. We had lots of fun but it makes for a very long day.

Rambo!!

I found this extra piece of ribbon at my moms house the other day and put it on Addilee's head like Rambo. I thought she looked cute but I really loved it because she kept calling it a rainbow. She would say mommy put my rainbow on me please I thought it was cute so I snapped a couple of pictures.