Ma and Pa Come to Montana

Over  Memorial Day Weekend my parents came to visit and we had a blast.  We went up to Virgina City for the summer kickoff parade.  It was about ten minutes long and consisted of nothing but horses, wagons, and a few brothel girls.  All of them were throwing candy, obviously not the horses, and when they reached the end of the three block parade route, they turned around and did it again.  Best parade ever and the girls got a ton of candy.

My favorite part of their visit was going shed hunting with my dad.  My mom and the girls slept in while the two of us found some pretty sad little excuses for antlers but were able to enjoy a quiet Montana morning in the spring time, the flowers were amazing.

The girls were in charge of one day of activities and they wanted to go to "town."  There is a restaurant on main street that has a bunch of grocery store toys out front and the girls love to play on them. 

We also had fun playing at the park.  The girls love climbing all over the tires.  While we were doing that their was a very enthusiastic guy from LA who was fishing with his kids in the fishing pond.  His kids had gotten bored and since you have to be under 12 to fish in the pond he was offering his fishing expertise to other kids and Hunt took him up on his offer. 

Within seconds of tossing out her line she had a bite and caught a huge monster of a fish.  She was scared to death once she got it to shore and refused to get close to it.  I'll pose any day with a giant mutant fish.

Chick, Chick, Chickies

 The first of many of our new "friends."

 Between the dogs and cold weather we've had a few funerals over the past few weeks but for the most part our chicks and ducks have provided hours of entertainment. 

Pais's Pictures

 While Chris and I were busy unpacking the girls were left on their own to entertain themselves.  For the most part they were extremely excited and happy about finding all of their toys that have been in boxes since we put our house up for sale.  Occasionally they still would have to steal my phone and get a netflix fix in here and there.  I also found several hundred pictures that Paisley took.  She loves taking pictures and for the most part shamelessly takes hundreds of selfies.  Much to my surprise she took pictures of other things this time and I was quite impressed they were of actual objects and not blurry randomness.

Hard Work

Before we started looking at houses we knew we only wanted to look at places that had some land to go with them.  We wanted a place where the girls, dogs, and even Chris could roam.  The first few houses only had a few acres so when we went to look at "our" house and the agent pointed out the boundary line and we couldn't even really tell where it was we knew it was perfect.  Fast forward to living here and we love having all the space but are also finding out with all of the space comes a lot of work.  It took me two days to mow the grass/weeds by the house.  I either need a riding lawn mower or a goat.  Another project we had was taking back the garden from the weeds.

 There already was a small garden box but since we have the space we figured why not till up even more dirt.  After planting I decided it still wasn't big enough but will have to do for now until we can make it even larger next year.

 Now life consists of a battle of wills between me and this guy over who is going to eat what is in the garden.  Yes I also need a fence. 

The first week

We explored the mountains......

 We explored the rivers.....

 And we spent lots of time on our own little piece of the valley.

The Big Move

 Our last week in Utah was crazy.  We had lots of last minute play dates, girls night outs, family time, and played with Kristi and her kids lots in hopes that baby Phillip would join us before we left.  During all of this Huntley even lost her very first tooth!

 Bright and early Saturday May 2 I had so many friends and family show up to help load our trailer.  It went so fast and I am so thankful to everyone who helped us.  The following Monday we left, me and the girls pulling our trailer and my dad and grandpa pulling the big trailer we borrowed from my Uncle.  Chris was the lucky guy who had to work and met us there to unload all of our stuff, which took a million times longer than loading it.  Of course as we got to our house my mom called to let me know that Phillip had finally made his entrance into the world, little stinker.

After a few days in Montana we realized we forgot a few things and we needed to buy some stuff for the new place.  Since the only shopping we have is a True Value we had to come back to Utah to get stuff and say hello to Phillip.

It was the quickest trip of my life! I slept in the same house as Ta'Merra and didn't even see her.  We met Phillip, went grocery shopping, bought a bunch of stuff at IKEA, and headed back home.  The drive out of Salt Lake took forever due to crazy thunderstorms and traffic.  Chris was gong crazy the entire time.  When we got closer to home we got stopped in traffic again.  Although this kind of traffic was the four legged kind and is extremely entertaining to my kids and relaxing to my husband.  I love being back in the mountains!

Montana

It's been 4 weeks (time flies!!!) since we were finally able to move to our new home in Montana.  We love it!  Like really really love it.  Four weeks later I still wake up and catch myself saying "I can't believe I live her" five million times a day.  Since our view is amazing I don't think I'll ever stop saying it.

 It's not a joke when they call Montana Big Sky Country, the sky does just go on forever even though there are still mountains everywhere.  

 

As for the girls, they are adjusting quite nicely.  Who wouldn't when you have a lots of room to 

roam and a giant manure pile to play in.  Life is good!