Sheep Shearing-March 22, 2009

Time to shear sheep. It was nice to spend time together as a family doing something everyone likes to do (there might be a few of us that don't like it as much as the others, I won't mention any names.) Danny Halterman, Spoon and the 2 guys from Scotland, Archie from Ayrshire and Ritchie from Stirling went to work and did a great job. I was amazed at the organization and how smooth the whole process went.

Here's my family minus me

Archie, Ritchie, Danny & Spoon

Archie and Ritchie.

Shearing Sheep continued

Archie and Ritchie shearing the sheep

Spoon packing wool

Emmy

Jarica is happy to be there as usual

Dallin

Catchin' up

The holidays were super busy and I didn't get to blog much, in fact not at all so I'm going to quickly catch up on what's been goin' on.
1. We started December with getting our Christmas tree and decorations up.

Dude & the kids went Christmas tree hunting and found the perfect tree!

2. There was a lot of snow in those first few weeks here in Cedar and in SLC.


We ended up getting 7.5 inches in one storm!

3. Winter break at SUU started a week before the public schools did so I went to Salt Lake(without kids) and spent some time with my parents.

Mom & Dad's Christmas Tree

4. Christmas Eve was fun/special and as usual spent with the Benson Family. We reminisced about Christmases of old especially last years when we were all gearing up to go on the most awesome adventure ever...Cruise & Disneyland.

The Nativity Scene by Colton, Jake, Bryce, Bret, Emmy & Dallin

Dallin & Granny

Sherrin shared some quotes with all of us. Emmy, Bret, Dallin & Granny

5. Before heading back to work and school Dude, Emmy, Dallin and I went back to Salt Lake and stayed with my mom and dad (Peterson). We visited with Dude's Aunt Joyce & Uncle Hal, went to Hardware Ranch in Hyrum Utah, made it back to Salt Lake in time to go to the Body Worlds Exhibit, finally got to go to Spaghetti Factory and the next day went ice skating then drove back home to Cedar City.

Hardware Ranch is where the Elk stay during the winter.

YAY! Spaghetti Factory

Mom & me before I fell on my head...

We did have fun ice skating though.

Thanksgiving

This was the year that the Hibberts and the Maynes spent Thanksgiving with their other families so mom & dad came to my house for Thanksgiving dinner...it was awesome.

A little down time

On November 11, 2008 My dad, AKA Papa Pete, had knee replacement surgery (OUCH). While he was at my house for Thanksgiving I got him to let me snap some photos of his knee.

More huntin' pictures!

Here are some hunting pictures from our family to the North. Looks like they had a successful Antelope hunt. Good job Brent, Leslie, Cody & Morgan! Keep checking back for the picture of the Big One.

Northfork

Saturday (11/9/08) Dude, Me, Shilo, Jarica, Emmy, Dallin and the dogs went up to our property on Cedar Mountain to plant pasture seed before the weather gets too bad. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the time together. The kids fished in the creek and rode their motorcycles; we ran into a little bit of snow by Navajo where Dallin slid off the rode, he didn't get hurt in fact I think he thought it was cool.





Griz & Odie

Jarica and her dogs Howdy & Jodi