2017-10&11

This blog post gets to be a two-for-one kind of deal.  Last week Chris and I went away for the weekend (thanks mom!!!) and then the week got away from me and I never posted.  Which now looking back on the last two weeks I did a really crappy job of taking pictures so this isn't going to be too big.

 We started Monday off making edible silly putty. 

 This picture just made me laugh.  Our dog is nuts.

 Wednesday I pretty much rocked.  I made bread, jam, jerky, protein bars, and ranch.  The neighbor kids think I'm amazing and I'm totally letting them believe that it's a normal occurrence at our house.  Reality is most of the time we eat pancakes for dinner because I never have my crap together.

 Chris spent the week in Michigan for work training and Friday I had to leave for the Bozeman gun show.  Neither of us ever have to travel for work so it was pretty crazy when we both ended up having to leave at the same time.  Luckily my parents were able to come up and stay with the kids and then Chris just joined me for the rest of the weekend when he got back to Montana.

 I spent Friday turning a mess of gun cases into the best looking table at the gun show.  I then spent the rest of the weekend being told by old men how good looking I was.  It was great for my self esteem.

 Since my parents were with the kids we also took advantage of not having the kids and went on our anniversary date a week early.  I wanted to go on one of Chris's adventures and told him not to go easy on me. 

 He didn't. 

 Proof I actually made it up that beast of a hill.

 The view was worth it. 

 Both of them :)

 After making it up the hill we trecked around all over the mountain and Chris found one tiny little deer shed.  All I got was a couple ticks, ugh. 

 And then we had to climb back down the hill.  The entire afternoon I was pretty proud of myself that I never slowed Chris down and could keep up with him just fine.  But coming down that stinking hill was awful.  He probably could have gotten to the bottom and taken a nap in the time it took me but he was nice and went slow with me.  True love I tell ya. 

 Monday I turned 33.  Had to mark that occasion with a duck face selfie with my biggest baby.

 I had to work at Shedhorn and the fire department that day but Chris and the kids were nice enough to make me dinner and decorate my cake. 

 The rest of the week must have just flown by because I don't have any pictures until Friday morning when the girls tried to see if they actually caught a leprechaun.  They didn't but they did catch his Lucky Charms.

 Saturday was our actual anniversary.  Chris spent it in the woods alone.

 And the kids and I painted ice cubes.  Busy Toddler saves my life.  Chris and I did celebrate by eating a tub of ice cream together after the kids were in bed. 

 Tonight we went to a retirement party for one of my coworkers.  Tucker gave Mav his first twinkie and the girls spent the entire time going for rides with Tony in his ranger.  Spoiled kiddos.   

2017-9

Monday started off with the little man not feeling very well. 

 We pretty much didn't move from the chair all day.  Big sis entertained herself by watching One Direction music videos on YouTube all day long and pretended it was her own private concert.

 This week was also Reac Across America and dress up week, yay! Except they picked really weird things so the only picture I took was of Hunt with a mustache.  Also notice the book during dinner.  That first day she was obsessed with reading the most pages and read 106.  Then she pretty much didn't care after that.

 Wednesday we went to the library and since we were the only ones there we got to play with the special legos.  Pais spent the entire time digging through all the bins looking for an elusive pony.

 Mav figured out where Chris keeps his tools and goes around "fixing" things all day. 

 Pais learned about volcanoes this week at school.  The random facts this kid tells me through out the day blows my mind. 

 

 

Saturday was our Stake Activity Day in Bozeman.  Hunt and Elsie were pretty excited about getting to go.

And since they had to sit by each other in the back seat, chatty Cathy got to sit in the front next to me.  A whole hour of nothing but volcano and turtle facts.  I hope she stays this awesome forever. 

 After the activity was over we stopped by Murdochs.  Not to get free popcorn for the drive but....

 Chickens!!! Here we go again. 

 

 This little chick doesn't quite fit in the coop.

 

 

 The kids practically live in the garage now. 

 Until Pais got super sassy when playing games with Mary Ann and got banned from the chickens.  She's been a perfect angel ever since though.

 

 Huntley held this chick for two hours straight.  It was dead the next morning, oops.  Now we have a "No holding the chickens" policy. 

 Chris got some Sunday snuggles with Mav.  I was pretty jealous. 

 We also found a form of cruel and unusual punishment.  Make your kids an awesome, cheesy pizza full of things you can't eat while it takes hours (Chris, I blame you!) for your pizza to be done.

It was worth it though.  We're 3 weeks into our gut restoration and of course Chris had an awesome six pack appear and I look the same.  But the constant knee pain that I've come to accept as just part of my life is gone so that is motivation to keep going.  And maybe some day I'll have abs too :)

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.