2017-8

Monday Pais was on a rainbow kick.  She wanted to read books with rainbows in them, watch shows about rainbows, and so I figured we'd just stick with the rainbow theme all day.

 We made rainbows in Ziploc bags and used celery to paint rainbows on plates.

 She was kind enough to carry the theme on through the middle of the night and with a rainbow of projectile vomit.  That lead to Tuesday being a sleep on mom all day kind of day. 

 Wednesday this little lost boy looked pretty adorable eating his breakfast. 

 Friday Mav was the puzzle master at the library. 

 Pais impressed the librarians with the amount of books she was able to carry at one time.  That pile kept us busy the rest of the day. 

 Sunshine makes me want to smile real big too.

 I was even a nice mom and played "horse."  I don't know why I dread that game so much.  The kids laugh hysterically and then I get a bonus work out. 

 Huntley got home from school and we used marshmallows as our paint brushes.  That was a bad idea. Mav ended up with green lipstick. 

 Our Friday night consisted of making 70 pounds of deer and bear sausage and cleaning the kitchen.  Now that was fun times. 

 Saturday morning Link came to play.  I think we're all going to be really sad when his mom finishes her EMT class. 

 I got my baby snuggles in and loved every minute of it. 

 Even if it was sitting on the toilet while Mav took a bath. 

 Our weather has turned back to freezing so Chris had the brilliant idea of turning the downstairs hallway into an archery range. 

 I didn't know how much the girls would really shoot when we bought them their bow but they are as obsessed as their dad is. 

2017-7

Monday Huntley stayed home from school because she wasn't feeling well.

 I set her up downstairs with movies and drinks.  Later on I came down to find the gymnastics match of the century going on and now think she was pretty much faking it. 

 I guess everyone needs a sick day now and then.

 Wednesday the wind blew so we had to break out the craft bucket. 

 We made play-doh creatures.

 That night we had a Valentines dinner at the church.  I caught Mav hiding under the table with Aliza and they were actually being nice to each other for once.  Love must have been in the air.  Speaking of Love, I didn't take any pictures on Valentines but it was still fun.  The night before I had to take minutes at the fire board meeting and Chris and the kids were sneaky and made me cards which totally made my day. 

 There was no school on Friday and it was actually a beautiful day, so we met the Chandlers at the park.

 Most of the ice has melted from the river flooding but there was still enough to have some fun on.

 That night we went grocery shopping in Bozeman and took our kids on a great date to the Costco food court.  We like to go all out around here.

 The kids and I spent some time in the toy aisle of target while Chris got his hair cut.  The girls used their own money and bought little live pets.  Pais now spends all of her time on amazon debating which pet she should buy next.

 Saturday our adopt-a-fourth-kid Link came to play.  We seriously love him.

 Mav's been obsessed with coloring lately and I love seeing his little body sitting up to the table like he's all big. 

•  And we ended the week with a spelling test.  Hunt's teacher hands the words out in advance and if you get 100 on the pre test you don't have to take the actual spelling test.  She's obsessed with passing the pre test because then you get to read the words to the rest of the class during the test.  I love when my children's nerd tendencies shine through.

2017-6

We kicked this week off with Hunt's second ski trip and Chris got to tag along this time. 

Unlike me, he knew what he was doing, so while the kids had lessons he got to go play on the big hills.  Some day I'll get there.

 They also must have been able to tell he could actually ski and let him ride three to a seat. 

 Until the girls ditched him. 

 Back at home Pais was given a hand me down ski helmet and can't wait for her turn to hit the slopes.

 Mav had to get in on the purple helmet action too.

Our little antelope watcher has upped his game and started using binos.

 Thursday was a big day at our house, the kids first stick bow came in the mail.

 I tried taking a panorama picture of a storm coming down the valley.  It didn't turn out very well but I'm still including the picture because sometimes I still can't believe I actually live here.

 Friday morning Mav helped make our weekly granola.  Since this blog is my journal I better include that this was the year we stopped eating cold cereal.  I thought it was going to be the end of the world for the kids but they only complained the first two days and haven't asked about cereal since.  They rock.

 Mav was pestering Pais, so she convinced him to climb in Maze's kennel and locked him in.  He loved it and I had a hard time convincing him to come back out.

 Sharing is caring.  But since Mav's such a good cuddle buddy who wouldn't want to share with him.

 Saturday morning these two jumped in to "help" me with my work out.

 And the wind finally died down enough to let us get out and shoot the new bow. 

 Mav's happily taken over the new role of quiver and fetch it.

 

 

 

 Since the kids were loving shooting, I figured I would end my 9 year hiatus and shoot too. 

 I don't know why I went so long with out shooting and think our summer is going to be known as operation Robin Hood.

 We also finished up our preparation for Valentines day.

 All the preschool classes are combining so poor Pais had to write out 37 Valentines. 

 Mav on the other hand just had fun sneaking into and opening the valentines.  Little goober.