Red River Hot Springs

We had a fantastic weekend near Red River Hot Springs. This is the cute little cabin we stayed in.
The Hot Springs were technically closed and under construction, but we heard no one would mind (or know), so we went anyway. :)

There was a fun innertube that the boys enjoyed playing in, especially Andrew.

Notice our happy smiles... RIGHT before Andrew said.....

"Look at that! A snake!" (I guess it pays when you don't pay!)

Our sweet 80 year old hostess of the cabins let Andrew and James take a little spin on her 4 wheeler.

Peter's a good little sitter these days.

We love Idaho!

We met a man that was training for the Iditarod. He hooks his dogs up to his 4-wheeler since there isn't snow yet, and runs them into the ground every day. He trains his Alaskan Huskies for a living! We LOVED listening to his dogs all night, especially knowing they were tied up, AND that we were in a cabin, not a tent...

September Family Doings

Andrew and Peter have lots of fun playing in the "box," or "kitchen," as Andrew calls it. He cooks mommy many a fancy food.

The next four pictures are at the Grangeville Farmers Market on a beautiful Saturday morning. Abby and her fiddling group played for an hour or so. James and the boys spent the hour doing a photo shoot of sorts. Shot #1: all together.

#2: Andrew pulling Peter...Peter fell asleep.

#3: Peter...asleep.

#4: Peter waking up... Andrew lookin' for some love.

Abby and I (James) played in a softball tourney on one Saturday with a team made up of hospital employees and spouses. We had a super good time. Abby's batting average would be all star in the MLB. We won third place. (yes, there were more than three teams...)

Am I (James) doing this enough? Like my pretty aprin with "sister-friends..." on it?

This is our wood stove, our only source of heating our place. Here, Andrew puts his (my) gloves on and starts building. He loves "building fires."

"Five Little Monkey's Jumpin' on the Bed- Andrew Style"

Sock Taste Testing

Heaven's Gate and Seven Devils

This is atop Heaven's Gate Lookout, overlooking Hell's Canyon and Seven Devil's Mtn's. It was a beautiful little hike and view. From this location we could see four states: Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana. Neat huh?
Seven Devils layout. (He devil, She devil, The Goblin, The Ogre, and three others I can't remember)

Seven Devils lookout.

Sevel Devils Lake. No, we didn't go swimming in this one...

Smoke Jumpers

Smoke Jumpers are pretty popular heros out here. We took a tour of their base here in Grangeville. It was pretty cool. This is what they wear when they go fight fires. For those of you reading this that have no idea what they are...they are the first line of defense for forest fires out here. They parachute in and then dig, cut, etc to prevent fires from spreading.
Here is the plane they jump out of. Andrew really liked it.

Then, a week later, Abby and the boys watched them jump and parachute as an exibition for the elementary school. Fun stuff.