Kalispel

I have a few things i need to catch up on, and what better time than when i am sitting on my butt recovering from surgery! it went well btw, if anyone was wondering. I am still feeling sick from the anesthesia 4 days later (that stuff is the worst) and refuse to take painkillers cause they make me feel horrible. so we are very VERY lucky that we have a couple of the best sets of grandparents just a short drive away who love our kids and are so willing to help! we LOVE you! and double thank you to Tash and all the people who have made us dinner, it has been SO wonderful, we feel very spoiled. aaaaanyways. back to the original post.

We got to go to Kalispell a while back with the School board because regan had to do a presentation for them. It was really fun to get away as a family, and bonus my parents were there cause my dad is on the school board. So while the men were in meetings all day us girls just shopped and swam! it was a great time.

Chloe who is obsessed with anything and everything princess carried around her loot of dollar store princess toys EVERYWHERE!! and i was NOT allowed to help her. ha ha it was hilarious. gramma bought her a backpack to put them all in, and she was in heaven!

We pretty much just swam every night to tire the girls out. I was super nervous about them sleeping in the same room with us, but the swimming must have done the trick cause they slept like a dream!

And i can't believe that this was Ash's first time swimming....what kind of a mom am I?? oh well she loved it.

She loved the turtle too and would just lay her head down and relax, she is just the easiest baby ever, we love her!

Chloe made us go back and forth and back and forth from the hot tub to the pool, Ash was in heaven in her little dingy floatin around the hot tub. she was soooo close to falling asleep.

I LOVE these girls. they are my water babies. Chloe even swam by herself with her water wings on, she was pretty proud of herself.

the whole fam damly. my parents were here somewhere too, but i didn't think my mom would appreciate me posting a picture of her in a swimsuit!

Whitefish

Oh Whitefish how i Love thee....let me count the ways.....

1.I love to bundle up my children and pull them on sleds. That are full of toys to entertain you and food for all the skiers. Down the mountain from the highest possible parking spot all the way to the lodge.

2. I love your Ski Lodge and this one big poofy leather couch that we have been lucky enough to snag like the last 4 years right by the fire place.

-Here we are on said couch having a snuggle after Ash had a 20 minute nap on gma.

-and don't mind chloe she looks a little like a homeless boy. but we still love her!

3. I love that you can bring fellas that look a little homeless themselves, but they fit right in.

4. I loved that this year gma was sick so she could stay and help me with the kiddos (I mean i really did feel bad that she was sick but it worked out for me ;)

5. I loved that this face got to be there this year, cause it's one of my favorites!

6. I loved that chloe was so exhausted that she fell asleep on the sleigh ride back to the car from the lodge. oh and every other time we pulled her in a sled the rest of the trip! ha ha

6. even tho i haven't gotten to ski in a couple of years I love the snow covered trees and that is is USUALLY not ridiculously cold (but it was this year...that part i didn't love)

I couldn't find a picture of regan anywhere, but this is my brother lanny taking a sweet jump!

7. I love walking around the Condo in wet socks for a week cause you can't escape the snow puddles surrounding the door. and I loved chloe trying on everyones boots and shoes and changing HER wet socks every hour.

8. I love that my birthday (the 28th) falls when we are here every year! And my shopaholic husband sends me something to the UPS store every year!! and this year i wa SO surprised and excited to get my new dishes from Pottery Barn!! I am one spoiled lady!

This is my dishes cupboard before and after.....SO pretty!!

I love LOVE my new dishes they make everything look so yummy like i am in a restaurant ALL the time!

9. I LOVE going hot tubbing every night after we put the kids to bed cause the pool is literally 6 really cold steps (for those of us who forgot their flip flops) from our door!

10. I Love having some New years eve Snacks at the Condo with my favorite family in the whole world!

11. I love walking in on grandpa wrestling on the bed with all the grandkids. My kids have been blessed with WONDERFUL grandparents on both sides. We are really lucky!!

There are so many more things I love about Whitefish but those are just a few I can think of right now. I need to take more pictures cause its the only way I remember anything!!

Echo location

So summer is coming to an end. sad. I mean not like I have to go back to work or anything, which is awesome. But none the less school is starting which means regan works all the time and never comes home early and is super busy. This is no fun for us. Oh well I am just happy it is still so nice outside! Its just too bad we have no one to play with.

well as usual i have a TON of pictures from the last couple of weeks so here ya go!


chloe hasn't gone to a whole block of church in a LONG time. 1:00 is the worst time to go for toddlers..seriously it is awful! but regan went to san fran the other week so i came out and went to church with my parents. They ALSO have 1:00 church, but for some reason she was super happy the entire time and even went to nursery all by herself! woohoo!! but afterwords she was a LITTLE tired, and didn't make it through dinner! ha ha

Here we are hanging out in grandmas new pool, complete with whale slide!



We were super lucky this year and my parents were able to rent a cabin at Echo Lake. I personally have never been there, but it was a BLAST!! I loved it and I am pretty sure everyone else had a pretty good time too!


Derick, and Landon both caught a turtle and wrote their names on it with nail polish. hopefully they can catch the same one next year.

My mom took this picture of lanny and sam canoeing with her little point and shoot...looks pretty awesome eh?


Probably my favorite picture from the trip, boston telling chloe all about his adventures on the lake!


Cute cousins tubing.

having so much fun boating and swimming.


partying it up!


trying out the surfboard and tubin


the hot tub was so fun to have, jump in the lake, jump in the hot tub over and over and OVER!






Regan is a pro skier!

good times with ma girls


TIna sleeps everywhere and anywhere, so does Ashley. She was asleep under the dash of the boat when a HUGE wave came over the front and soaked the entire boat including my poor ash!!





cutest little flag girl ever!


ok AL was pretty good at it too!




Loving the hot tub!!


We had so much fun, yes ashley was there even tho she was in NO pictures! ha ha i was a brat and didn't even take my camera out of the car! good thing we took lots with my mom's! Echo lake was the BEST and we are so excited to do it again next year!!