The Skelton Family

Skelton Family Rafting Trip

2009-09-13T19:16:00.000-07:00

The first annual Skelton Family Rafting Trip was a success despite losing the rear end out of the Durango on the first day. Hope you enjoy the photos and descriptions of our trip.
-CLINT

Rented a raft from EWU for a great price. This is the only way to go.

Look at the love!

Trap Creek is a great rapid. (Just ask Brooke) she went out of the boat right over the front on the second day.

The Best Western in Riggins is nice. Beats a tent any day!

Paige Off to BYU-Idaho

2009-09-13T16:49:00.000-07:00

Labor Day weekend we drove Paige and most of her earthly possessions down to Rexburg to start her first year of college. It was a great trip and Paige seems to be doing just fine.

2009-05-30T14:49:00.000-07:00

Paige's Senior Year

So I just decided since I'm graduating next week to put some pictures up of my last year in high school. More from graduation to come!

Bench 2009! "The Dark Titan"

Dying the wig for the joker for bench

Kirk and Cara Palooza

Stinky Sneaker! We Won!

Prom 2009

The Senior Officers

Senior Awards Night

Rain!

2009-01-06T11:31:00.000-08:00

December Spokane Valley Snow Update

2008-12-29T20:45:00.000-08:00

The snow just continues here in the south Spokane valley. I took these photos when the sun finally showed itself on Friday, December 26th.

Cole and I went for a little hike up Tower mountain and skied down. Not the best skiing
conditions, but we never hit any rocks!

Kim took this picture of her "Carhartt" men. She insisted I post it.

Paige and Brooke ready to go face the elements.

2008-12-21T20:30:00.000-08:00

Winter has come to the Skelton homestead. I measured twenty-two inches after the first twenty-four hours of the storm. Since then we have received another six inches. It's not even Christmas yet! Anyway, hope you enjoy these pictures of our record-breaking snowfall here in the south Spokane valley.

I snapped a pic of a very worried looking whitetail doe slogging thru the backyard. Paige and Brooke sledding down the driveway

Brooke standing in twenty-two inches of snow

Had a little trouble with the snow blower. But the gang knows Dad can fix anything with a little baling wire. After some help from the neighbor and a little "Tim the toolman" modification, we were throwing snow twenty feet. Nice hat, eh?

The birdhouse has plenty of insulation now. Might need to shovel off the trampoline.

We were able to locate Paige's car when we spotted this mirror!

One of the best investments I ever made!

Merry Christmas!

Elda May's Birthday (aka Brooke)

2008-10-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

Today is Brooke's 14th birthday, so I'm copying Hillary and making a post about Brooke.

Roundup at Ray & Pooty's

2008-10-07T19:52:00.000-07:00

Well, Paige is too busy to update the blog tonight so the duty falls to Dad. Hopefully readership won't fall off dramatically due to the change in authors!

The news of the week is the continuation of our October tradition of traveling to Oroville to help with the fall roundup at Ray & Pooty's (My youngest brother and his wife). This tradition started back a few years ago when Hillary and I went up for the weekend to do some cowboyin'. That year Hillary and I got to reenact one of the scenes from Lonesome Dove, when we rode across a hillside in a driving hailstorm.

This year Paige, Brooke and I had a good time playing cowboy and touring some of the pioneer ranches in the area. We got to spend some time with Ray & Pooty, Charlee, Gramma Dagnon, Ray's dad (Don) and Ray's volunteer cowboy, Dale.

Ray & Pooty, you are the best! We appreciate your hospitality. Thanks for letting us be cowboys for the weekend. We can't wait until next year!

Paige mounted on Pooty's mare, "Sophie".

Brooke rode both the tallest (Tom, pictured above) and the shortest horse (Peanut, seen below) in the same day.
Pooty made sure the girls were looked after.

Dale, our favorite unpaid cowboy, owns "Peanut". Here Dale adjusts Peanuts cinch.

Charlee stayed home with Gramma. Maybe next year you can chase cows!

The cattle we gathered are headed to the corral.

Brooke Skelton, future NRA president.

Me and Ray

The view from Ray & Pooty's deck. That's Don's ranch on the opposite side of the Simalakameen river.Brooke wanted to ride "Smokey". I explained that he had bucked off a good cowboy (Don) several times in the last year.That's Ray & Pooty's new house, with the Canadian border just out of the picture to the right.

Ray wants to make sure Paige is having a good time. She did!

We hiked up on the mountain above Ray & Pooty's on a very nice October night.

Gramma and Charlee

Paige takes in the view of Nighthawk and the valley

I even came home with a winter project. That's my 35 year-old saddle that is in need of some work. I'll be riding broncs with it next year!

Paige's Crimson Crew Retreat

2008-09-01T06:21:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Crimson Crew Retreat up at Chewelah Peaks Learning Center for 3 days. It was my second year going, my first as a leader, and my second year as a coordinator. It was, sadly enough, probably the most fun thing I did all summer. The other coordinators and I got to teach the other leaders the activities and lessons they need to know for their incoming freshmen. Last year I didn't have a camera, so this year I went a little picture crazy.

Trust Falls

The Whole Family Together

2008-09-01T05:57:00.000-07:00

Cole, Hillary & Cameron came to Spokane for our cousin Jordans wedding reception. They got here on the 26th and left on the 1st. Even though I was kicked out of my room for Cole, I still was happy that they came...I guess.

Me, Cole, Hillary & Brooke at Jordan's reception.

All of the Thompson cousins minus Justin and Garrett;
Plus Cameron & Amy

Brooke & I got Mario Kart for our

Wii and everyone enjoyed it.

Hillary beat Cameron!

We decided to have breakfast for dinner the last night that they were all here. Lots and lots of bacon!

Our Felled Tree

2008-08-26T17:37:00.000-07:00

During a wind storm last week, part of one of our trees in the front of the house fell and smashed the neighbors fence. My dad and Eric Leavitt sawed it up yesterday.

Fire in the Hills

2008-07-11T12:11:00.000-07:00

On thursday there was a fire in the Dishman Hills behind our house. We had to evacuate for the night and finally got back home this afternoon. Here's some pictures of how the ponderosa looked in the early evening.

The view from our back yard when we first found out about the fire

By Ponderosa Elementary.
These don't show the actual flames because after we left the Ponderosa where you could see them, it was too dark to get good pictures.

Some pictures from KXLY

Our new Wii

2008-07-10T17:56:00.000-07:00

Brooke & I finally saved up enough to buy a Wii. We called all over town and finally found one place that still had two left! Everyone is enjoying it a lot.

Dad really enjoyed the golfing

First of July in Mountain View

2008-07-03T09:29:00.000-07:00

So, last week my mom called my grandma and asked her if she wanted to go to Mountain View, Alberta, Canada (where my grandma was raised) for the first of July (Canada Day) to visit relatives. My grandma, my mom and my aunts always mope around on the 1st of July because they wish they were in Mountain View. So my grandma finally decided that it would be fun to go and we started off after sacrament meeting because Brooke had to give a talk (good job by the way). We got to a little passed Sparwood which is about 2 hours or so from Mountain View, and had to turn around because a semi truck got stuck on a bridge and they wouldn't be able to get it out for 4-6 hours. So we went back to Sparwood and were very lucky to get a hotel room for the night! The next morning we finally made it to Mountain View. We stayed at my Grandma's cousin's (Mona's) house which was fun.

Old Chief Mountain

Mona, Dana, Dawn, & their mom, Aunt Delsa

Aunt June, Aunt Faye & Aunt Iris

Brooke & Paige at the Ghetto Restaraunt

(that's seriously what it was called)

Paige & Brooke in front of the Cardston Temple

Exploding an anvil with dynamite.
In case you don't notice, this really made me jump!

Intro

2008-07-03T09:27:00.000-07:00

Hey this is Paige Skelton. I know that usually a parent in a family is supposed to do the blogging for the family, but since both of my parents are computer and electronicly disabled, I am stuck with the very exciting opportunity to begin it untill I can teach one of them to do it.