weekend fun!

JR, Jamie, and I went on a road trip this weekend. We put Jamie in charge of the camera. These are just a few of the pictures she took. We had lots of fun, stayed the night in Ely. There was a road rally race and we were very lucky to get a room. It was very, very old but clean so all was good!


This is up Snake Canyon.



We went up to Leman Caves on Sunday. The Aspen leaves were changing. It was so pretty. We took a about a billion(or so) pictures!



This is the glacier up at the top of the Mount Wilson Loop, very dirty snow!!

More color!!

These are some wild horses up by Mule Shoe. They liked Jamie. All the times JR and I have been up there before we could never get any good pictures, they were all running away!





These were taken at Delmar. It's an old mining ghost town.

We had a wonderful time, even with all the wind, but it wouldn't be Nevada without the wind right?!

Jamie has started her own blog for her photography and art projects. If you want to see more great pictures head to jlsart.blogspot.com

new blog title

Our family blog has a new title because I had to explain the last one (an improbable fiction) to Jamie. She just gave me this look - like that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard - So now it's easy. Shakefam5 because we are the Shakespear's and there is 5 of us! How simple is that?

surprise!

So this little guy was crawling around in our front yard saturday afternoon. We called the Desert Tortoise Hotline, they're coming to get him monday night. Abbie has named him Heraldo. I refuse to touch him. He just gives me the creeps. He scratches at the box we have him in, and makes this kind of whistle sound. Creepy huh?!

Jamie!!!

Me and my cousins! Kaitlyn, Anna, me,
Moira Jane(know I spelled it wrong! sorry), and Isaac.




Here I am practicing hard at my cello! I am first chair in Chamber Orchestra at my middle school. I'm trying out for Honor Orchestra in October. I'm in the Symphony at LVYO (Las Vegas Youth Orchestra) I am very busy!!











Bird's nest on windmill's ledge.

Picture I took of the mountains in Nevada while we were scouting for Mclane's antelope this summer!

Mclane

Last year was Mclane's senior year. He was his ROTC's Corps Commander! Here he is MCing their last award banquet. He did a great job. He looked so handsome in uniform. I wish I had formal pictures of him in it. I really miss his haircut! He refuses to cut it now!

Mclane shot this coyote at about 250 yds! I couldn't even see the guy! Grandpa Redden and grandpa Worthen would be proud!









JR is pretty proud of Mclane's first antelope as you can tell! He got it just before the sun went down. Good thing we had a flashlight in the truck, bad thing was it wasn't a very good one!!







Here's a close up of Mclane's antelope that he got Labor day weekend. He is a pretty good shot! The antelope is 14 in. tall. That's really good for Nevada!








Don't know why they made me get in there!

updates!

summertime updates!

Summer seemed to fly by this year. Everyone was so busy. Jamie and Mclane were gone, Abbie, JR, and I were just working.

We drew 3 deer tags and Mclane got an antelope tag so we spent alot of weekends scouting where the antelope in Nevada would be. Let me tell you, there is not many antelope in Nevada. I'm used to Wyoming I guess! In Nevada a count of 2 constitutes a herd!

The valleys are long and wide here as you can see. The antelope can see you coming before you can see them!

Easter weekend JR and I went to New Harmony. These are some pictures of the aftermath of the fire. I was excited to see that the camera lens could get that close. Its sad to see, hopefully the snow will melt slowly so the town doesn't get flooded this spring.

This is off the deck looking south.

and of course have to throw in a picture of Kolob!

New camera/Jamie!

This is our first picture with the new camera!
Jamie is practicing her cello. She is doing really well with it. beautiful sound!

Her school's Chamber orchestra went to Santa Clara CA in Feb. for a competition. They took second! She had a lot of fun, next year they are going to Kansas City!

trying things out

The girls at the Shakespeare Arch in Kodachrome.

Abbie and Jamie at the start of the trail. Jamie is covering the blasted "E"!

Dad and his girls.

This is a couple years ago on top of the Boulder mountains in Southern Utah.

Our first blog!

So, this is it, our first family blog. We love reading everybody elses blogs so Abbie and I, Michelle, thought we should make one of our own. This is always the hardest part, finding what to say first...Hmmmm...Oh! So at first we couldn't figure out what to call our blog. We figured out a couple of good ones. One of our favorites was "Got William?" but then we thought no one would get what the crap we were talking about. We really wanted something that went with us being Shakespears. So, we looked up a bunch of Shakespeare quotes, picked the best one, and dropped that wretched "E" from the name, haha. And that's how our blog name came to be! Yes, yes we know. We are AWESOME! haha... Anywhosits...Let the blogging begin!