How 'bout them Cowboys!!

     As expected our Labor day weekend was a blast!  We took off with our good friends Hailey and Bryant to Haileys family cabin on Flathead lake Saturday night, where we spent the evening hanging out listening to music, playing board games and enjoying the spectacular view!

     We then headed up the west shore to Dayton where we met up with Haileys parents, drove over to Big Fork to listen to the Singing Sons of Beaches, then came back to take a little dinner cruise on their 1971 lobster boat!  We dropped anchor in a calm bay off Wildhorse island and barbecued burgers before heading back into the marina just before dark.  The four of us then slept on the boat, which was possibly the best sleep any of us have had since we were babies, the boat rocked us to sleep like an adult sized cradle!  

     We woke from the boat Monday morning and drove around the lake and down to Helmville for our second annual trip to the rodeo.  I love the Helmville rodeo because they still do things the way they were done 50 years ago, no smoke and fire, just rodeo!  Of course they do some sheep riding but in Helmville it's referred to as "Championship mutton bustin'". This is always a crowd favorite and it was made even better this year as the rodeo secretaries little boy helped one of the bullfighters out.  He got into his stance every time and was right there to help the riders up and encourage them with a high five.  

     The only lowlight of the entire weekend was the phone call from the Dobsons Monday morning telling us they came home from spending the weekend in Glendive to find a broken water line under their kitchen sink!  We went down there Monday night to cap off the water lines so they could have running water again and the better part of half of their laminate flooring had to be removed by the restoration company because of water damage!  Luckily I'll be able to do the plumbing repairs for them, which will help the cost a little bit.  They're dealing with this in the best of ways however as Dan told us that night, "things could be worse they could be dealing with cancer or something much more difficult than this".  I couldn't agree with him more, even though watching your kitchen and living room be turned into a construction zone for a couple weeks is pretty tough to deal with, there are far worse things to have to tackle in life!  
     So we are having our weekly dinner get together down at their house tonight which won't hurt my feelings at all, we don't have cable anymore and the Cowboys open the NFL season tonight against the Giants!  It's the first game of the new season and of course my hopes are just as high as they are every year, sometimes I think the only person in the world besides me who has as much faith in his team going all the way every single year is Jerry Jones!
With that todays closing is simple.....how 'bout them Cowboys!!!!!

Remember, hopeful optimism can only go so long before it's deemed desperation!