She does this every single time she walks into the computer room and sees me on the computer. She hates it. This is one of her milder breakdowns. The last one I saw, she charged into the room and slammed down on the ground with enough force to send her hind legs way above her head. I’ll have to see if I can’t grab a few of these clips and mash them together. Enjoy!
Here’s Qeirstyn riding her bike. She wanted to take off her training wheels so she could show her 6 year old neighbor friend that she could do it too. Turns out, she’s not quite coordinated enough for it yet. We ended up putting the training wheels back on pretty quickly afterwards.
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It’s been too long since my last photo upload. Since then, I’ve uploaded some additional Labor Day photos that I got from my Dad and others. The most recent would be Halloween and playing in the first snowfall of the season. Enjoy!
Love,
Derek, Heather, and Qeirstyn Hildreth
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These are always exciting to get. I would love to see everyone else’s photos from the last Labor Day weekend. We had a blast.
To the family:
These are only a few of the pictures I had (the only ones I could publish). Remember, there’s a page for family only at http://www.derekhildreth.com/pictures. You should have the password. If not, drop me a line and I’ll remind you. There’s an “upload” feature as well, so feel free to create a .zip file of your cabin photos and upload them. I’d love to see what you took.
Love,
Derek, Heather, and Qeirstyn Hildreth
PS. One more note about http://derekhildreth.com/pictures: An easy way to remember is that ALL of my pictures are in http://derekhildreth.com/pictures and only a select few “gallery worthy” photos are at http://derekhildreth.com/gallery.
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The gallery has been updated with all of our latest pictures. Click on the thumbnail to take a look!
We’ve been attempting to get to Fairy lake 2 times now. The fist time, the road was closed, the day was hot, and the hike was too long. The second attempt we ran out of gas (doh!). Thank goodness we were next to an occupied cabin where we broke down and thank goodness they had just enough gas (60oz) to get us over the hill and coasting the rest of the way out of the canyon. At least we still got a picnic out of it!
We’ve been enjoying the frogs that Grandpa Hildreth caught. We’ve been feeding them crickets, grasshoppers, flies, moths, dragonflies, and anything else we can catch. Heather caught a few big, red dragonflies in our backyard today and decided to keep them in another cage. The frogs saw them and eyeballed them all day.
Love,
Derek, Heather, and Qeirstyn Hildreth
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The gallery has been updated with all of our latest pictures from August. Click on any of the thumbnails to take a look! We’ve had all sorts of fun this month so far.
July
We received all of the medication last month. Here’s what it looks like. We’ve since had to pick up even more. Just in case anybody missed it, we did the retrieval of 9 eggs and transferred 1 healthy embryo back mid-August. Heather had to give herself shots in the belly every morning leading up to the transfer. Now, I give her shots in the butt every night. We’re hoping it’s worth it!
August
Once again, we went on our traditional August hike through the Beartooths. This time, we conquered the Arch Lakes at 10,000 ft. There are always spectacular sights and good times. Be sure to check ‘em out.
Since we were in Billings so often this month for IVF, we also had a chance to hang out as a family and feed the ducks and goto the little zoo in Red Lodge (Beartooth Nature Center). It was a lot of fun.
Love,
Derek, Heather, and Qeirstyn Hildreth
Great Grandpa got lucky enough to stay undetected from a cow elk looking for a way to beat the heat in the wallow.
While on a hike in the Beartooths (Arch Lake), we ran across a family of pine martins. They were very curious about us being up there at 10,000ft and so they all came pretty close to check us out. Here’s a video of two of them growling at each other.
Pictures from this same trip will be coming next week.
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Here’s a video my Dad put together on everybody having fun on The zip line. Enjoy! Just think…. we’ve had it going even higher in previous years.
Love,
Derek, Heather, Qeirstyn Hildreth
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Here’s the video from Qeirstyn’s performance in the spring recital 2011. Enjoy!