HARVEY'S

When we moved to Montana I thought winters would be full of tons of snow. Instead we get less snow than Utah and the little we do get the wind blows it away immediately and you never even get to play in it. We have to drive to play in the snow. For New Years we went to Utah and driving through Island Park I got to remember what snow looks like, it's beautiful.

The whole reason we went to visit, meet baby Ada! We love her.

We also took Mav to Cabela's for the first time. He ran around like a crazy person and I ran into a display chasing after him. Good times.

New Years Eve all the cousins got together and ate candy. Lots and lots of candy.

So much candy these two were able to climb on top of the fridge. Not really, but they did eat a lot of candy.

Pais's turn holding baby A.

Monday morning before we drove home grandpa took us to get donuts. Real donuts. I miss those too and now I'm thinking I'm a horrible parent who deprives their children of snow and donuts.

Katie was also super awesome to meet us at the salon and give us all some much needed haircuts.

Mav cuddled with grandpa.

Pais looks like she was in pain for the entire experience but she really did love it.

And she looks adorable.

Sassy faces for sassy hair.

We got home Monday night and this week was full of school, work, homework, dentist appointments, grocery shopping, babysitting, and colds which must be why the only picture I have of the entire week is this:

Maybe this week I'll do better.

I fell off the blog wagon. I had a crazy two weeks without a day off, combined with school starting, hunting season starting, me picking up a second job, and a few sick kids and I've felt like I've been trying to catch up on life ever since. Not in a bad way, this fall has been amazing and I've enjoyed every minute but when ever I had a few spare minutes and Chris asked if I was going to blog, I would laugh and pass out with in seconds. So here's a recap of the last half of the year, just for you Chris.

This is out of order but was probably the highlight of our fall. We took a mini vacation and went to the Star Valley Temple open house. The drive there was beautiful, the temple was beautiful, everything about the whole two days was beautiful. One of those moments I wish I could relive over and over.

Now fast forward, or backward, to were we left off. Huntley started 2nd grade!

She also had a birthday and turned 8!!! We celebrated by going to the hot springs.

She got a new bike and had her favorite ever Costco Chocolate Cake. She's a smart girl who knows not to let mom bake your cake :)

The weekend in between her birthday was super special. We had lots of family come visit and I dragged them all over Jack Creek Preserve not really knowing where I was going. To top things off I made them all take a picture together. It was some good times, let me tell you.

Pais had a birthday and turned 5!!! She hasn't quite figured out mom making your birthday cake equals a disaster.

She also started preschool this year and loves spending time with Miss Connie. Even if she still cries every. single. time. I drop her off. I've already made plans with the bus driver to hang out at his house a lot this summer so we don't deal with her crying every single day on the bus next year.

Although there is hope for little miss Paisley. In the past every time we used to go shooting she would spend the entire time crying in the truck. This year a switch flipped and she turned into our best hunting partner.

She can't get enough of being out in the woods and whenever she come to visit me at work spends her time trying to convince me which gun she needs.

Back to our mini fall vacation. The leaves on the way to Afton were amazing. Again it was so beautiful!

The day after the open house we went to Bear World. It was one of the coolest things ever.

The next day instead of just driving straight home we decided to add a couple hours to the trip and go over the mountain to Jackson and come back home through the park.

We haven't been to Jackson since Hunt was a baby and I love that place. I wish we were rich and could live there.

After we got home it was time to get serious about hunting. I got my antelope.

We also got lucky enough to babysit baby Link. Chris avoided the house that day but I'm convinced I could handle four kids no problem.

And Mav totally would look cute with a baby brother.

Chris took the girls on a daddy daughter hunting date. They came home with treats from the gas station.

For Halloween we had a scary witch, cute mermaid, and a fireman.

And we went hunting a lot more.

Pais was the only one to ever get anything.

I checked Hunt out of school one day and the two of us went to lunch. She is definitely my kid since she ordered dessert instead of food.

This is the other reason I feel like a crazy person. Every spare minute is spent cleaning up whatever disaster this kids makes.

We killed a tree. Mav wasn't very happy about that.

I got to be the gun girl at the Bozeman gun show and Chris and the kids got to tag along too. They loved playing at the hotel pool. Chris on the other hand really loved being the sole parent entertaining kids in a hotel room.