Tree Top Flyin': 2012

About Us...

This is our travel blog... our electronic travel journal you could call it... documenting our journeys to new & different places. I called our blog, 'Tree Top Flyin'... a Jimmy Buffett reference that reminds me of traveling, & the adventures to be had with our newly acclaimed 'IFR' Pilot & his plane. We're a non-traditional family - living in non-traditional ways... and I love it that way. For the four of us life is quick & distinct... it's unique and adventuresome - but it's also very normal. We have angst, & we have laughter. We have pain and we have greatness. We're happy, and we're whole...this family, that is mine.

I always say... growing up in a big family - it was sometimes tough to be heard, and from time to time hard to find the spotlight. But it's THE BEST thing in the world as an adult. I have automatic friendships with each of these tremendous people. They have to love me, hee hee. As hard as it is to make true friends these days - I am SO very lucky to have them spinning around me in this atmosphere of love.

My Mom & Dad are the universes most unique and loving people. And my brother & sisters, the same. It's a world of love with my family. The icing is that I have the husband of my dreams, two boys that I'm crazy about, an incredibly fun & talented brother-in-law, and an extraordinary sister-in-law who is the worlds best Mom. (not to mention, the light in my eyes - Elijah, Lindley, & Leah).

Jim's latest project. Giant project. Tearing out our parking terrace, and rebuilding it the 'right' way. A track-ho, the bobcat, an ogger, and a welder. I married a real cowboy, and didn't even know it.

The boys started drooling over a certain pair of air-soft-guns at Cabella's a few days before we headed to the ranch for a week. They agreed to work all week to earn the $30 they needed to pick them up -and that they did. Garbage runs, spraying weeds, digging holes, hauling groceries, stacking wood.

And on Independence Day we camped way up in the mountains behind the house. This was us loading up at the house - showing just half of what we took. Where is the kitchen sink?

I started this fire while the boys were off trying to call in coyotes. At one point, I thought things were out of control. I panicked at the height of the flames, put the fire out - and started all over. Ayayay.