On an Adventure

A couple weeks ago Chris went shed hunting and found the biggest horn of his life.  Too say he's been obsessed with finding sheds ever since would be an understatement.  This led to a fun filled family activity trekking around the woods.

We start off like three little ducks lined up in a row happily marching along.

Pretty soon the ducks get tired and want to be carried.  Which lead to our first "oh crap, we are outnumbered" moment.

Then to add to the excitement, the dog meets a porcupine.

And somehow we miraculously make it back to the truck.

No wonder Chris has reverted back to solo adventures.

10

10 years ago Chris and I were in Jackson Hole on our honeymoon.  I love Jackson Hole and I love him so it was a pretty great week.  During that time we imagined what our lives would be like 10 years from now and planned how it would be so great to go on an Alaskan fishing trip to celebrate 10 years of marriage.  As the years went by and a few kids came we changed our minds and decided the perfect way to celebrate 10 years would be by sitting by ourselves on a beach not having to do a thing.

Fast forward 10 years and we've actually reached the much anticipated milestone in our marriage.  Life has happened during that time, we moved during the past year, job loss, and the minor detail of being attached to a baby, so there was no way to make our trip happen this year.  Chris being the amazing husband he is (amazingly crazy!) channeled his inner Johnny Lingo and bought me three goats for our anniversary.  He was pretty proud of himself for making me a three goat wife.  He obvious didn't remember the movie very well because it was cows and Mahana got ten but it's the thought that counts.  And I'm sure this summer when I can lay on a lawn chair in my yard doing nothing because the goats will eat all the weeds, I'll be more grateful for the goats than a Hawaiian vacation. 

Winter in Yellowstone

The goats weren't the only thing Chris surprised me with for our anniversary.  He took the whole family on a mini vacation. 

Yellowstone is closed during the winter except for a small portion two hours away from our house.  We drove up on Friday night and stayed at a hotel just outside the park.  Hotels and pools are quite possibly two of the girls favorite things.

Mav on the other hand wasn't old enough to know of the joys of these such things and decided to spend lots of quality time with me during the night taking it all in.  Hence why the next day we really have hardly any pictures of our time in the park even though it was probably one of the best trips we've had.  We saw so many animals and hardly any people were there.  

We originally had planned on turning on a movie for the girls when they got bored but we didn't even have to use it.  Buffalo were in view at all times.  It was like being in a drive through zoo.  Which I guess that's kind of what Yellowstone is.  

I think we will spend more time going to the zoo in the winter, just when Mav gets a little older so I don't have to spend so much time watching the back of my eyelids and can enjoy it more.

Nap time is for blogging

Last night was amazing.  After weeks of waking up every one to two hours Maverick finally slept for five hours straight. I actually feel like I can accomplish something today and what better thing to do then get caught up on this blog. Although being so far behind is overwhelming. I have pictures on my phone, Chris's phone, the iPad, and my dads camera and gathering them all and doing the posts I want to do seems impossible.  So for the sake of my sanity I downloaded the blogger to the iPad and this post will be known as "Random Pictures from the iPad."  

Our first picture is beautiful snowless Montana.  Boy was I wrong when I thought montana would equal freezing cold winters.  I'm sure this isn't normal but it's been a nice way to ease into being a Montanan.

This is the position Huntley was constantly in for the first few weeks of Mav's life. If she was around, he was in her arms.  Luckily she has to go to school so the rest of us got turns occasionally.

Chris was laid off the week before Maverick was born (we are some of the few wanting gas prices to go back up!) and having him home the past six weeks has been so nice.  He and Pais spend all day outside enjoying this non-winter.

It's even been warm enough that these crazies got to play at the park in January.

And since I'm sure everyone is dying to know, Maze has adjusted just fine to having a baby around.  We seriously should have named her Lassie.

Ice Skating

The weekend after Maverick was born my parents came up to see him and play with some attention deprived little girls. Huntley picked the activity and they went up to the VC ice skating rink and had some fun.  Meanwhile Chris, Mav, and I took naps. I think it's safe to say we all really enjoyed the day.