2018-3

We were Chris-less this week.  He was stuck in Fairfield doing installs and I got the scary task of keeping the home fires burning.  Monday we got home and were greeted by Hickory and Chestnut who were not in their pasture. 

 By the time we finished chores, dinner, homework, and everything else I was pretty happy to sit on the couch and catch up on Curious George with camera shy Mav. 

Wednesday Pais woke up with the stomach flu.  An hour after dropping Hunt off at school I got a phone call that she was sick too.  Mav spent the day trashing the house. 

 Finally Friday rolled around.  I walked into find Chris was home and he came bearing pizza.  Forget flowers, this man really knows the way to my heart.

 Saturday we needed to go grocery shopping and figured since we were in Bozeman we'd try out their sledding hill.

 We all gave it a two thumbs up. 

 

 The great snowball fight of 2018 also happened. 

 It ended in tears.

 And me with some really awesome hair as I walked around Costco.

 And after we finished all of our shopping we stopped off at Best Burger for dinner.  Two nights of not having to make dinner was pretty dang awesome. 

 Tonight was meal prep Sunday.  Mav's the best helper and pretty soon I will be turning all meal prepping over to him.  He's almost 3, better start earning his keep.

And last of all, Periwinkle.  He's been hanging out downtown for the past few weeks and is the cutest little moose ever.

2018-2

The other day one of my friends sent me a picture of a calendar she found, Goats in Trees.  I decided I wanted to make my own and here's the cover photo.  Chestnut looking fly.

 Monday's family home evening consisted of training our children to be future cirque du soleil performers.

 

 It may or may not have ended up with Mav in a dress.  Which actually came in pretty handy when he needed to pee. 

 Tuesday Chris and I were able to chaperone Hunt's ski trip.

 After last year's ski trip I thought I was a rock star when it came to skiing and couldn't wait to show Chris my stuff.  Yeah, I fell the first time getting off the lift and it didn't get much better than that. 

 After one time going down the bunny hill, the instructor grabbed a few kids and pulled them off to go down bigger hills.  Hunt was one of them.  Which meant Chris made me go down the big hill. 

 Huntley rocked it. 

 Me, not so much. 

 This resulted in Chris and Hunt having a great time flying down the hills and I did my thing.  Slowly. 

 

 

 Friday I scheduled a play date for myself.  The kids thought that was the weirdest thing ever but when Hope showed up with her dog Chip and they realized I was going sledding for my playdate and they got to come too, they were down for it. 

 We even fit all five of us in the sled.  Best. Playdate. Ever. 

 Saturday was Kids'n'Snow in West Yellowstone.  We started off ice fishing at Hebgen.  Mav was so excited to catch a fish. 

 He waited.

And waited.

 And waited some more.

 He finally decided fish or no fish, he was done. 

Luckily a cup of chili, cocoa, and a cookie was enough to make him happy again.

 His sisters didn't have any luck either. 

 But the fact they only fished for a full minute and then went off to play in the snow might have something to do with that. 

 Hunt was brave and rode the snowmobiles. 

 She thinks she needs one to ride to the bus now. 

 

 The sled got some more action. 

 

 

After that we had some pretty dang tired kids and Chris and I almost felt like we were on a date while driving home. 

2017 Recap

Another year.  Another attempt at weekly blogging.  Maybe 2018 will be my year to actually finish strong.  Before we start 2018 here's a quick recap of our most popular moments of 2017 according to instagram.

 I can't even get this thing to edit to just show pictures, but whatever.  I'm actually blogging.
1-My family on Christmas.  I took this with a timer on my phone and dang, do we look good.
2-Chris and I went on a backpacking sheep hunt.  Doesn't that sound hard core.  Don't I look hardcore.  Reality was not so much but it was definitely the highlight of the last year for me.  I really love the guy I married. 
3-We tagged out on a Christmas tree
4-Huntley gets to hunt next year and is getting all geared up.  Can we say spoiled much!
5-Did I mention we got goats.  5 of them.  And hopefully a lot more babies this spring. 
6-My first and only time sitting in a tree stand.
7-I'm begining to sense a theme to our pictures, hunting.
8-First day for 3rd grader Huntley and Kindergartner Paisley.
9-My Whole World!!!

 2018 started off with eating way too much sugar and Chris and I sending the kids downstairs around 10.  They all crashed.  Just before midnight we felt bad about not helping Hunt stay up until midnight and went to wake her up.  The kid would not wake up but Pais did in the process.  I started counting down to midnight and then Pais started crying and said I was scaring her.  That didn't go as planned. 

 The next day Mav crashed in the afternoon.  I wanted to take a snuggling selfie with my sweet baby but instead got a montage of crazy face Pais pictures. 

 A moose was hanging out on the lawn behind my work. 

 The girls all got facial kits in their Christmas stockings.  I thought it would be a fun mother/daughter bonding activity.  Instead it turned into everyone crying about how it hurt their face.  So much for that good idea. 

And that's all I got.  I really stink at taking pictures so hopefully now where I'm committing to blogging again I'll be a little more on top of documenting things.