Our Mississippi beaver swamp duck hunt yielded 7 gadwalls and 1 wood duck.
Pictured from left - Ronnie Earl, Bo, Hunter and Brent taking the photo. And the hardest working one - Jamie the dog!!

Christmas at Izzie's

Mama's famous Christmas cookies

Izzie and Jane Baldwin

Oliver, Izzie and Jane Baldwin

Bo and Aidan Christmas morning

Izzie and Oliver

Bo and Jane Baldwin (aka Sissy)

Me, Sissy and Oliver

Beaver hat for Bo's dad - Merry Christmas!!
Hope is stays cold so you can wear it on the deer stand.

Oliver helping Izzie open her presents

Snow in the MS Delta - day after Christmas

Aidan posing for the camera

waffles and milk in his pjs

Cutting our Christmas tree

There are two big holes in our hearts......
We miss yall so much!

Bou (June 1998 - November 2010)
Maggie (August 2002 - November 2010)

Our first Alaska Christmas tree!!

Saige, Kieren and Bo playing rock, paper, scissors!

Marten Skinning 101

Oh, and our moose antlers being put on a plaque

Wine - makes skinning critters more fun!

Bo and Roger - marten skinning party
Fun times

Betsey saved the day! HA!

Maggie "helping" Bo fix the garbage disposal

Sharp tailed grouse

For our anniversary we decided to splurge and go to the grocery store here in McGrath! Pizza for supper and Bunny Tracks ice cream for dessert. Only cost $23.84!!!!HA!

Got our Christmas lights up before the temps go below zero! (at least that's my excuse!!)

Found these at the dump!HA!

They love trapping season - digging around in the snow to find scraps of trap bait (usually beaver scraps!)

I would definitely say we are through with the boat for the season!!

Ran traps for the first time of the season on Saturday.
Bo had 17 traps set and caught 7 marten!!!!
Great start to the trapping season!
This is marten #1

Marten #2

Marten #3

Marten #4

Marten #5

Marten #6

Marten #7

Clearing trees from our trail.

End of the trail for the day.
Muskeg creek - not frozen enough to cross yet.
Set a wolverine trap here. So maybe next week I'll have pictures!

Halloween party - Joe's Bar

Iditarod musher and vampire

This is our quick trip to Fairbanks.
We went to Chena Hot Springs and toured the Ice Museum. It is the only year round ice museum in the world. Everything is made of ice - the building, floors, furniture, etc. It was 16 degrees inside when we were there. They have 4 bedrooms that you can stay in - for 600 dollars a night.

We also went to North Pole, Alaska. Saw santa and his reindeer.

Ate at Big Daddys Barbecue. Which has been featured on Drive Ins, Diners and Dives.

And did LOTS of shopping!!

Apple-tini at the Aurora Ice Bar

bar stools covered in caribou hide