Vote for Hannah

Update: Hannah won 1st place. She had 176 votes of the 5oo+. She won $50, and of that $40 went in her savings, and the other $10, she got to spend it on whatever she wanted. Here is a short clip of the toy she chose.



This year we entered Hannah in the Blue Mountain Eagle Newspaper Halloween Contest.

Take a moment to vote for our spooky ghost.

Jack-O-Lanterns

Naomi helping Hannah carve a warty pumkin into a jack o lantern.



Hannah with her Jack o Lantern



Carving Mufasa from the lion king.



The finished products. The cow was carved to take to the FS, the middle is Hannah's, and then there is Mufasa.

Halloween

Hannah's request this year for Halloween was for our family to be a ghost family. Well here we are in all our glory.

New Nap-Time Ritual?

We are headed camping this evening, and to prepare for spending time in the tent, Hannah chose to take her nap in her indoor tent. Not sure if this will be a reoccurring theme or not. Time will tell. To be honest, I've been hoping and waiting for this moment.

Morel Mushroom Picking

Well this year the Hannah's (Hannah Nadine & Hannah Rose), and I took up Morel picking. We gathered many large mushrooms, and I had high hopes of selling our pickings at the Farmers Market here in town, but to no avail. So instead we dried our treasures to save for future gourmet meals.


Hannah N. and a few of our goodies.


Hannah R. and one of her bags of goodies.

The mighty morel hunter on break.

This shot is actually taken by Hannah N. Not to shabby for a two year old, eh?

Hannah R. and the daddy of all morel mushrooms.

Happy Father's Day

Father's Day was very mellow in the Piehl household. We began the day with omelets and smoothies, as requested by Daddy Piehl. After we finally got around to getting out of the house, we headed to the park, for a little kite flying adventure. Unfortunately the wind wasn't constatnt and Hannah was growing impatient with Mother Nature.









During the evening, after eating dinner, another request from the man of the house, Boboli mini pizza's, we headed to Clyde Holliday State Park for a walk. Our walk was cut short due to a flooded trail. But we didn't let that stop us, we just hopped in the car and drove around to the other entrance and walked around the bullfrog pond. Hannah enjoyed copying her father throw rocks at the bull frogs. Robbie vows next time to bring a net to catch the bullfrog polliwogs, which are huge by the way. I managed to get off a couple of cute photos while on our short adventure, not so far from home.

First produce of the season. Hannah's strawberry plants, tiny but delicious.

2nd Birthday Bash

Here is the start of some of the videos with Hannah opening the gifts you all sent to her. I'll be a adding more as time arises. Big thanks, she is a very lucky little girl to have you all in her life. (Any gifts that arrived on Hannah's actual birthday were opened with Daddy and Mommy, all others were opened at her party.)

Tyler Family


Papa & Nonna Sanders


Lerum Family


Grandma Connie

Annie, Part 1

Hannah absolutely loves the movie Annie, and has recently taken to singing and dancing the with musical too.

Annie, Part 2

Steelhead Fishing on the Clearwater

My cousin Allen was home from Iraq and wanted to do some steelhead fishing so I met up with him and my dad in Orofino Idaho for the weekend. Turns out we kept 9 fish and caught numerous others. Well they caught numerous others, as I only caught one, but we had a great time. Here's a few photo's. Unfortunately we don't have a group shot with the 7 from the first day. Oh well.

Reading with Mommy

One Woman Show

Little Helper

Speed Racer

The Letter 'H'

Barney's "I Love You"

Hannah's Rendition of the ABC's