Sunday, September 20, 2009

Sundance fire yesterday (the ranch)

These pics don't do the scene justice...the fire started(3pm exactly, looking at my last txt msg ;) just behind the last hill on the right of the pics. the wind was blowing so hard to the left that there isn't even smoke at that spot anymore when Alex took these at about 4:30.







A different helicopter that flew over us was so close the kids were waving and yelling to because we could actually see in the windows! They thought that was pretty exciting.
When we first got there and you could see that the fire had just one 'puff' of smoke above it, Natalja was very uneasy and wanted to leave ASAP! I convinced her that we were totally safe with the dirt around us, the big water truck and we were swimming. Besides that the fire was over the hill and the wind was blowing sideways not toward us, but still pretty strong winds. It did get within 100 ft. to the Gary's store on the corner of sage and 79 Gary said when he went to tell the girls working to go home! So, we'll see how that ended up doing.
We were out there for a b-day party for Brad & Cole, but when the phones died and then the power it was officially cancelled. Alex & I and the kids brought a cake to Brad's house and celebrated with Kelly, Amber, Dallas, Shawn & Shea.

out for a walk



this was too cute, while we were all looking up Bret was going on a walk. There is a picture of Alex when he was little just like this, except he has overalls on and his dog with him, I have always loved that picture!
(look at those thighs!!)