Camping

The last two weekend have been spent with fun out in nature. Two weeks ago we took Dave and showed him what Montana is all about, the great outdoors. My mom, Tom, the kids and us went out to Cooney Lake and camped the weekend away. There isn't much to say about it we did the normal things, relaxed, played in the water and had lots of yummy smores. It was the first trip of the summer (unless you count that really cold one in June) and it was perfect. There was a ton of people out on the lake so we didn't get the tube to pull behind the boat out, but the kids still got lots of time in the water. Then last weekend Emily and I headed to Girl Scout Camp out by Red Lodge for anther weekend of sun and fun. We went on a hike, made frames, bracelets and of had more smores and banana boats. This year was even better sense they put our troop together so they girls could have fun together. Dave was nice enough to keep Cody for the weekend and they went off to do boy things. Cody was so excited to get to just have a boy's weekend, they went to Chuck E Cheese, the movies and other top secret boy activities. After we got home on Sunday we went over to Mom's house and set up the new pool she got, and I have to say it is a ton of fun. It was even more fun sense my sister's girls and my brothers oldest boy came over to play again. Now as I sit here and type this up I am thinking were should we go camping this weekend....

Parks, Wedding and Hikeing

This weekend was just a perfect summer weekend. We started it off by going to the spray park on Friday after work and enjoyed the sunshine for a little bit. The kids got tired of the spray after a little bit so we decided to go down and feed the ducks at Riverfront park and then do a little walking in the trails. That was a bad idea, the mosquito's were so bad you couldn't go into the grass. Even with the deep forest off they attacked us and ran us out of the woods. By that point it was getting late so we headed home to make dinner and just have a nice relaxing night. On Saturday we had Addie's wedding to go to in Miles City, on the way is Pompey's Pillar something I have always wanted to go to but for some reason never had the time to make it. We did a ton of stairs (if I remember right it was like 201) before Addie's wedding, it was a good thing we had another hour in the car to recool down. Addie's wedding was so nice, she looked amazing and it had a relaxed feeling to it. The actual wedding only lasted about twenty minutes and then it was off to the party, which from what I hear went into the early hours. We decided to come home the same night so we headed out about nine, but before we left we did all the important things. We did the chicken dance, ate a great dinner, slow danced, did the dollar dance and did the who can catch the garter/flower bouquet. The following day we were going to head up to Nie and hike along the stream there but I forgot to take a turn and we ended up in Red Lodge so we headed to Lake Wild Bill instead and hiked around it. We have had so much rain this year that everything is so green which makes it even better. You know I love living in Montana during the summer, ask me again in 6 months if I like it here and I will say no but for the moment it has been the best summer in a very long time.

Happy 4th of July!

Yesterday was the 4th of July and what a great day it was. I want to start this out by saying thank you to all the soldiers out there, both past and present, who allow us to be able to celebrate our nations birthday. If it wasn't for the We started the morning out by heading to Laural and watched the parade. I think that might have been the longest parade I have ever seen, but the kids loved it and ended up with so much candy. If we go next year we will have to make sure we bring a bag for the candy. After that we headed over to my Dad's house for a picnic lunch and the kids thought it would be a good idea to run in Dad's sprinklers. We stayed there for a bit just talking and having fun then on the way home my Mom called and invited us over. We got over there and she had water balloons and the pool ready for the kids, so in the suites they went. While the kids were doing that we decided to go get the kids some fireworks and skip the big mess in Laural later. It has been a long time sense I saw my kids on the 4th and it still makes me smile at how amazed they are by the fireworks. The kids and I had the most amazing day and to top it all off Dave got here late last night. Now I am sitting here listening to the birds sing, the sun is coming up all warm and sunny and I am thinking how lucky I am right now and how great life is. Here is a collection of the pictures I got yesterday, I hope you all had just as wonderful of a day as we did.