Sentinel at Sunset

NW Ridge

NW Ridge

Mt Jumbo from the NW Ridge

Lingering light

Champions and Winters

Champions! Tuesday nights Le Kickball Championship game was a burner! Flash forward to the top of the seventh, and final inning. With a 5-4 lead all we needed was three quick outs, but the 2TRU4Us werent going down that easy and rallied two quick kicks and a run! With a tie game and runners on Paige made the defensive play of the game, and season, with a finger tip grab along the right field foul line, sending us up to kick. Fortunately our first kicker was the should be league MVP, Matt, who kicked a dribbler to third for a single. Next up was Matt's wife, "Boom boom" Jeanne Bloom. After watching the first pitch she lined up the next one and grounded it to short forcing the shortstop to make a choice, which he took too much time doing! With two runnners on I came to the plate knowing that if i kicked it anywhere into right field, Matt's 6'5 length and aggressiveness, "no glory in third base", would go for home. I lined up the first pitch and....a tough foul ball down the right, nearly caught by the first base lady! With nerves high and the PBR buzzing i watched the next pitch in and kicked it just over the second base lady, watching Matt make the round of third and run into home for the Win! It was a great time. Later at the awards ceremony Paige would be robbed of an earned womens MVP award, but hey thats not why we play the game.

This week was also the week that Winter settled into western Montana. Blah, blah, blah. You either embrace it and meet the everyday challenge, often finding unexpected and surprising beauty in the white, grey cold, or you crawl into a hole and hibernate till April. Paige and i have taken to the former and had several great outings already. Unfortunately, Paige paid the price later this past week and came down with a debilitating little cold that forced her to stay home on Friday and even though she didnt "work" she did do quiet a bit of organizing and planning just to get a sub lined out for her class. Teach, teach, teach.

On Saturday i got out for a great run up and down Sentinel and University mountains. A beautiful day on the hills.

Summit of University Mtn.

Sentinel summit with University Mtn. ridge in the background.

Le Kickball!

After two playoff games late last night, in blizzzzzard conditions, we won our way into the, 16 team, Missoula Le Kickball League championship! Tonight is the night it goes down between us, The Ice Monkeys, and the 2Tru4Us, who we tied in regular season play. With more cold snow predicted it should be a good one!

Sperry Trail, Glacier National Park

Winter Weekend in Glacier, more photos to come!

Out the back door/Sunday 11/6/11

The First

Welcome to our blog! Keeping up, filling in the gaps, and making the most of eachday is hard work. Being soooo far from our families doesnt make it very easy to share this richness. Phone calls, texts, emails and and the occasional, in the flesh visits leave out the details of all the time in between, which can be quiet awhile, sorry. Hopefully, this format will allow us to keep up with the Jones', or in this case the Fords, Jernstedts, Sheppards, Forrests, Crosslands, Yates, Kimmels, Womacks, Browns, Irelands, Greys,.....(catching breath) and all those we call friends. We will make an effort to keep this blog up to date with our ramblings, so check back often. This is JP Livin! This is us!