Montana Vacation for Clay's Birthday and moving/not.....

Tom, Chelsea, Boo & I went to Wendells cabin & spent the night. Tom & Wendell loaded up the horse corral and we headed to MT to help the kids move. We found out the night before that the people buying their house couldn't close for another week. We debated on going or not, then decided it was Clay's birthday, Boo was packed, and we were ready to go, so we went anyway. It turned out good for us. We helped pack a little, but we played a lot.



1st Stop, was Wendells's Cabin to get the Horse Corral.

 

We stopped to check out the Madison River.



Boo & Chels at the Madison River. Thanks to Boo being sick of riding in the car we stopped here & it was beautiful.

Ennis, MT shopping. We wanted the fish picture but it was a little to pricey.





Just hanging out on main street.

Papa bought Boo a cowboy hat so he'd be a true Montana Boy.

Abby Road, Ennis Style.

Uncle Clay & Boo at Giant Springs going to fish for some rainbow trout.

Tara & Baby K at Giant Springs.

Couldn't wait to hug this little guy!!!

Cowboy "K"

I think he has the McCarty fishing gene.

Sharing Goldfish on the trail.

Papa and his boys at McKenzie Pizza.

Sharing Rainbow Trout.

Even little fish are fun to catch.

Playground fun.

Unloading Rose's corral at the new house.

It looks like it belongs here!!!

Marching, Marching, Marching. Killians loves to march.

This kid can hit. Uncle Clay is the umpire.

Sharing Uncle Clays' birthday sundae at Jakers.

Playing at the hotel pool~or Clay's Birthday party. We were the only ones at the pool for a long time. Then two older, heavy woman walked in & Chels said "Here's the strippers!"

Uh Oh, I think they hit someone....

After swimming it was storytime.



All Boo has talked about is going to MT, seeing Baby K, and catching a rainbow trout. He wasn't disappointed. But he said next time he's going to fly, instead of drive.

WWW.ZENTANGLE.COM CLASS

A few of the dozen girls that came to learn about zentangle with me.



 

Our first attempt. Pretty darn good!



Carole, Our teacher Marie, Marsha & Aleisha.

Our teacher Maries Zentangle.

Sidney

Charlie

Dak



Boo and Papa were kind enough to entertain the kids with fishing.






Skyping with Baby K

We love skyping with Baby K~Almost like being there. But yesterday morning when we were
talking to him and he reached out and said "Hold You" it about broke our hearts.
Love You Baby K.
We'll be holding you soon!!!!

Boo's first day of pre school 2010

Mimi Day 090810

Boo came running in the house with this fish and asked if we could have him stuffed and mounted & put him on the wall, "Right there on the wall where that dirty spot is"!
His other thing is if he catches a fish & the worm is still on the hook so we don't have to put a new one on he calls it "Double Points".  This is because I used to say "Bonus" when I didn' t have to put a new worm on.

Labor Day Week-end with Baby K in Montana.

Woke up to a spider web in the doorway of the cabin,  looking out at the Tetons. Our first stop on the way to Baby K's.

Ennis, MT. Second stop on the way to Baby K's. Three hours of shopping. A nice little break.

Then we arrived. He was waiting for us and ready to play.

Baby K's new house in Vaughn, MT. A nice floor plan, and lots of  land and horse property. 

Elmo's' from Boo.

Riding on Papa's shoulders at the Farmers Market in downtown Great Falls.

Who ever guessed downtown Great Falls could be so fun to shop in?

Sam's Club find. What would we do with this? It was good for a picture.

State Park. So beautiful.

The playground.

Swimming at our hotel. Baby K loves to swim and is so good at it.

He can suck his toe.

Love, Love, Love this baby. Such a fun trip to see him.
Everything we asked him he would say 'Yesh" or No.
Bicky Ba meant back & forth as in he wanted to  rock.
Bugga meant Bug as in There's a bug on my ceiling & I'm not going
to sleep until you kill him. 

Boo's Soccer Game in G-Ville. It was almost 100 degrees!

It was hot and Boo was working hard. He scored 6 goals and kept track of it by showing us on his fingers after each goal. He and Papa got into a little water fight to cool off and Chels caught it on camera. The smile on Boo's face (& the look on Tom's face) says it all.

STANSBURY DAYS 2010

 We tried to have the whole Stansbury experience: Golfing, riding in the parade & passing out candy, frisbees and doggie treats. Then lunch, the beer garden, and fireworks. But Boo was most excited for the frog jumping contest. This was his 3rd year he's been entered in it. He came frog hunting Fri night, caught 6 frogs to share. He came in 5th place then released all his frogs back into the lake with Nonie, Peter & Sammy.
   While walking through the car show we saw our neighbors that live directly across the lake since we moved in 17 yrs ago. Mary and Monte.  When we first moved in they hollered that we didn't live in the city anymore to turn off our motion lights, then he hollered over to turn off our bug zapper that we couldn't kill all the bigs anyway. So Tom being the kindest person in the world,  invited them over for a beer and they said "We've been down that road, no thanks".   Over the years we've said Hi across the lake and Tom has taken over tomatoes. When Joan died they sent a sympathy card and we were surprised. Then Mary's brother who lived with them the past year died and I sent them a sympathy card and I got back the nicest Thank You Card. So when we ran into them Sat at Stansbury Days, Mary hugged me and said I can't believe I've never been this close to you before. It's true, I had never seen her up close. Is that so sad to live that close and be so far away. So that was a good thing that happened at Stanbury Days, along with Boo being so happy and proud of his frogs.

Sammy petting the frog before releasing them back into the lake.

Papa coaching Boo on the best way to get his frog to jump the furthest.

Carole's cute grandkids (almost as cute as mine) getting a golf cart ride.

Gavin really likes Nonie, Sammy & Peter. He asked me where they lived and I told him in SLC,
just a little past the airport. He replied "That's nice for when they go on vacation!".  That kids always a thinking.

Mimi Day 081810

Started my day off skyping Baby K. Clay said he pointed to the computer & said Mimi asking if they could skype. He repeated all his ABC's and counted for me. Such a smart baby. When I asked him where his hair was he pointed to the computer screen at mine. Lots of kisses from long distance, makes him seem close by.
Chels & I went to good old NPS and found a few bargains, Boo & I went to Gateway, then back to our house for an afternoon of fishing. One of the neighbors came by & said "He's going to be a really great fisherman when he grows up" to which Boo responded "I already am."  The other Booism of the day is when we were eating dinner: He said "Excuse me Mimi. Is that a turd in your avocados?"  It was the avocado seed to keep it from turning brown. (Brown avocados may be more appetizing than a turd in the middle of it!)
I can always count on Gavin & Killian to make me smile & make me happy. We're so lucky to have them.

Boo & his Big Bass right before it head butt him. Luckily he wasn't hurt and it was hilarious.