Double Stroller

You'd think I was an alien the way people stare at me when I'm out and about with my double stroller. It's as if nobody has ever seen two kids before. As I've talked to people in our ward it's become clear that this insn't exactly a family town. More people here have dogs rather than kids. I guess you can't fish if you have kids to weigh you down. Needless to say this leaves people astonished when they see me walking all over the place with my giant double stroller. It's been a life saver though (thanks mom!) because I walk almost everywhere I go - gas costs about $4 a gallon up here. Well the other day I was out and about and saw a lady with a triple stroller. I didn't even know they made those! Well curiosity overcame my shyness and I had to go over and talk to her. She has a two-year-old son and then twin babies younger than Braden. Come to find out she lives just around the corner from us and now we've decided we're going to walking together three times a week. At least I won't feel like such a loner and people can really stare at us!

Pretty Trees

So the other day Dalin was eating a snack. He loves grapes (especially the purple ones) and has discovered that he likes to pull them off the vine by himself without help. At this particular time he had eaten all the grapes off the vine and then held up the empty vine and said "pretty tree". Then he proceeded to show us the leaves and flowers on his "pretty tree". It was very cute and now he knows that when he eats grapes then he gets the added bonus of a tree afterwards. He has a new favorite snack. Then, much to my dismay, I went in the living room where Dan was holding Braden and found that he was allowing Braden to munch on an empty vine. After scolding him I just had to take some pictures because it was cute. Braden also loved the grape vines and now they're his favorite treat too.

Beautiful Montana

Well, I have to say that if I could persuade my family to move to Montana I would consider living here for the rest of my life. It's so beautiful here! It's not at all dry and deserty like Utah and the rivers here are amazing. These pictures are taken at the Madison River and it's located about 20 miles from our house. But then if I really thought about it I would remember how much I love Utah even in the hot weather. I don't think I would ever consider living anywhere else for a very long time. But you can't deny the beauty of Montana. This fun little place was discovered one Sunday after church. Church is held from 1-4, a very bad time for two little boys who want their naps at that very time. So skipping Dalin's much needed nap is very difficult for everyone involved. So as soon as we had eaten we decided to go for a drive and off we went with no particular destination in mind. We drove down the old highway heading west from Bozeman and ran right into this! It's just off the road and used for fishing access. Dalin fell in love with it and of course loves to throw rocks.

Dalin loves to wear his slickers and splash in the water any chance he gets, but this was heaven. We've been there twice now and all you have to do is say "Dalin, do you want to go throw rocks" and he gets very excited because he knows exactly what that means.

Drawing Pictures

Dalin's new favorite thing in the whole wide world is to draw pictures. The hard part is helping him to understand that we can't draw on everything. The other day while I was laying Braden down for his nap and Dalin was watching Elmo I came out of Braden's room and was horror struck. Dalin had drawn all over the T.V. with a highlighter pen that Dan had left out the night before. For those of you who don't watch Elmo's World, his two favorite things are his fish, Dorothy, and his crayons. In fact Elmo's whole house is made of crayon pictures and he colors on his furniture with his crayons. Bad example for Dalin to follow. Needless to say I was able to get the marker off the T.V. before it dryed out and now there's only a slight mark on the speaker that wouldn't come out. Dalin now knows that we only draw on paper and whenever he wants to draw he'll ask me to get some paper. But in order to peek his artistic interest I've bought him some sidewalk chalk and bath crayons. Holy cow he was in heaven the first time I showed him he could draw on the bath tub walls and then he can erase it with a wash cloth. He loves it, especially when Dad draws with him in the tub.

The Rain

Well, I've finally done it. I have started blogging. I have several friends that have a blogspot and now family too and I love to see their pictures and stories so here I am. I tried to start up a myspace page and found it to be too involved and difficult. Apparently I'm not as computer friendly as I thought I was. This is much easier and you can view writing and pictures on the same page.

We just moved to Montana and it has been the worst weather known to man. It's FREEZING cold and has rained every single day since we got here three weeks ago. Of course my boys love to be outdoors and Dalin gets very upset if he can't go out. So I bought him some rain boots (actually his grandma did) and now he only wants to wear those. He loves to splash in puddles and even though the boots go up to his knees he still manages to become soaking wet. Braden doesn't go out much because of the wet so we're hoping that the weather gets better but the forcast for this coming week isn't very bright. Hope we see summer before winter comes again.