Playing catch up......

As I reflect, I wonder how many blog posts I have called this title? Oh well, what matters is that I'm doing it now. So, guess what--Kevin and I own a subdivision and we are officially developers. It's trivial that the subdivision only encompasses 3 acres and we will only be developing it for ourselves. Here's a picture of the official 'mylar' that was filed with the City of Island Park.

Kevin is pointing at the signature from the Fremont County Treasurer. We would have had this deal done months ago if it had not been for her. Let me back up.... If you are not aware, we have a 3 acre lot in Island Park. We have wanted to build a cabin ever since we bought it 7 years ago, but evidently it takes money to do so. We had a great idea that we would split up our lot and sell off one of the acres then hopefully we could build. We were only able to do this if we 'subdivided'. That basically means that we had to pay many people lots of money to make up these fancy plat things and get many signatures. There was lots of controversy with the sewer (if you know anything about IP, this has been an issue for a while and we got caught in the middle) but we eventually prevailed. In the mist of this, the Fremont County Treasurer felt it was her duty to prevent us from subdividing. After calls and letters from the Island Park City lawyer, she conceded and signed our plat. You may notice however, that she wrote "good for 30 days" below her signature. I think it made her feel better, but it didn't stop anything and we now have a beautiful 1 acre lot for sale in Island Park. Tell your friends.....

Now, on to Winter Ball. This is Brianna's first formal dance. She went with Lamonte Charles. As always she was gorgeous..... BTW her dress cost me $10. Really, I got it when I went to LA with the girls. Now, it took Grandma Oswald about 20 hours to alter it and put sleeves on it, but I like saying it's a $10 dress. Thanks Grandma!

Here's a shot from our annual Super Bowl party. I love it because Dad Oswald is smiling (and for those of you who know him, it's hard to capture a picture of this!). I think it's super cute, they were all cozy in the chair and we just had to capture the moment. I have lots of other pictures of us eating, because that is really what the party is for, but I'll let your imagination fill in the blanks.

"One of these kids is not like the other, one of these kids just doesn't belong"..... do you remember that song from Sesame Street? Well, I think it fits for this picture! This is a shot of our fun President's Day weekend at the Mickelson's place in Island Park. Thanks Aunt Wendy for inviting us, it was so fun! (See Wendy's blog for additional details----yeah Wendy!)

I had to include this cute picture of the 'Silver Babies', as Aunt Kamee calls them. We are pretty sure they will all end up single, living in an apartment in Rigby together, and mooching off of their willing parents. It's good to be the 'baby'. :)

Brianna's new haircut, betcha can't tell she took this picture of herself.

And yet, another dance. This one was girl's choice and it was Morp. It was fun because we got to have all these kids at our house for dinner.

Last, but not least. Sometime ago I posted a picture of a moose that was on our property in Island Park. I thought it was so cool to have one wander through our place up there, until this week. This is a picture of a moose in our front yard! He was visiting our place and eating our trees. I'm sure he's been around before because he sure looked like he knew what he was doing and where he was going. We had the dogs in the house, so he had free reign of the yard. He wandered over to the house across the street and laid down in their yard for awhile. I love living out here! We so often have deer, eagles, swans, geese, ducks, owls and stray dogs (what?), it's our own little paradise.