Awesome!

Lord willing, we will see this type of stuff happening for years to come!!!! Thank you God for our kids!

Jaden and Hot Mama!!!

The Meadow!

The far road that you can see from right to left is basically the south property line.

The view from the living room

Living room with sweet orange shag!!! HMMMMM!

Brennen, Ethan and Nathan in the timber near a bird bath

Here is part of the deck!

The Semmens Family Cabin!

Are prayers have been answered! We have been looking for a mountain property for about 7 months now and about 1.5 weeks ago we found it! It is a cabin in Northern Colorado on a little over 10 acres 90 minutes from our house. It is up the Poudre Canyon towards Pingree Park a little less than two miles from Rocky Mountain National Park. Dave Brown, one of the men I have been meeting with every Friday for about 9 years, has had a cabin about 5 minutes from here for close to 25 years and absolutely loves the area. It is frequented by many elk, deer, moose and other animals. As you will see from the pictures, some of the land is thicker timber, some is open meadow and some is aspen groves. We feel that with 6 kids in the Semmens Clan, a place that we will be able to vacation frequently will build our family together like nothing else. It has tons of potential for family and friends too, as it has about 5 bedrooms (2 of 5 don't have closets yet) and lots of other room to sleep more! It has its' own well, electric heat a a new wood-burning stove!! As you can see the views are breathtaking and we are excited for all of the future potential.

The view from my tree stand

The view of my tree stand

The Bear!

Hunting and Fishing in Saskatchewan, Canada!!!

What an amazing experience! I left with a good friend last Saturday and we flew to Great Falls, MT. Then jumped in a Ford Expedition with three other guys (4 total) and drove 7 hours to Saskatoon. Then got up early and drove another 12.5 hours to pretty much the border of the Northwest Territory! 5.5 hours on a dirt road! Talk about a sore butt. Anyway, the days were filled with lots of fishing and the afternoons and evenings were filled with hunting for bears. This area, which the outfitter has the sole rights to hunt is said to have over 35,000 black bears. It was a great week! Food was good, fishing and huting were even better! I will try to post the fishing pics next week but here are some hunting pics!

Alive and Well!!

Well, this weekend we survived our very first Semmens Family Camp-out. Or, is it a "camp-in" if we were in a pop-up camper? I think it would still be considered a camp-OUT because we froze our little booties off when it RAINED and SNOWED on us. We didn't bring sleeping bags because, well, I am not sure. They are zero degree bags and I guess we didn't want to be too hot. Anyway.

We managed to have a lot of fun. The boys all enjoyed (supervised) bebe gun shooting, fishing in a little stream with no fish in it for about 10 minutes, making smores with a fire coaxed into existence by lighting on fire a lot of papertowels to get the damp wood going.... I have to insert our Miracle here: Brennen and Ethan were by the fire and Chris and I were doing something with the other boys. The next thing we hear is screaming and crying- aparently, Ethan had tripped and his hands went INTO the fire. it was really scary. Well, after a lot of trying to figure out what had happened, Chris basically discovered that his hands were "a little tingly" but otherwise, not a single burn in sight! He was totally fine- Praise God!! The boys also enjoyed chopping wood and we had a fun little hike the next day after the sun decied to come out again.

SO, that was it. Initially, I was thinking, "wow, this is a lot of prep for ONE night!!" But, Chris and I were ready for our warm bed and happy to go home the next day. As my mom said, it's better to leave us all wanting more, than coming back never wanting to go camping again! Wise, mom. :)

Well, I brought my new digital camera on the trip to I'll try to figure out soon how to get the pics onto the computer. No promises as to when that might actually happen... I've been busy trying to wash, fold, and get laundry put away for oh... three days now.