Montana Part 4 Endless Day Part 2

Here is some video of the carousal.
Okay, here we go again. Outside of the Carousal they had an amphitheatre and a neat recreation of the mountains around Helena. We spent at least an hour out there snapping pictures to take advantage of Jessica's shutterbug ways. She has an awesome camera!!! She also takes really good pictures. These are just some of the random shots we got off of my camera and I think I did a pretty good job. After we finished the pictures it was way past lunchtime and we decided to go to IHOP. What a nightmare. First we couldn't find it and we were following Michael who was taking directions from Cindy who was using her Cellphone to google where the IHOP was. After many direction changes and one u-turn and Eric getting the maddest I have seen him in a while we got to IHOP. Eating was a nightmare to. They didn't have any food. Everything we kept ordering they were out of. This ranged in variety from Chicken Nuggets, to bananas to put on pancakes, to chocolate milk. After that we finally got on the road back to Michael's. Jessica must have been feeling like causing Cindy great stress, because she sent all three boys and Michael and Cindy in their van. We all know what a children lover Cindy is. So Mom, and Jessica and Eric and I were in Mom's car. We were barely on the road when Eric had a major Bathroom attack and we had to stop at a gas station. Of course someone was in the bathroom and then someone snuck in before Eric could get in after the first person was done. Poor Eric. Poor Michael and Cindy. I was just wondering what the kids were putting them through. So we drove for another hour and a half and made it back to Michael's. As we pulled up Cindy was jumping on the trampoline with the boys while Michael was sitting in a lawn chair watching. We found out that the boys fell asleep ten minutes into the drive from Helena and mine was the first one to fall asleep. I asked Michael how he got Jimmy to fall asleep, because I can't get him to fall asleep anywhere, but his one bed without a great battle. He said he just ignored him. I've tried that, it doesn't work. Our day is not over yet..............

I hope the bear doesn't bite.
Shane looks just like my dad.
Just hanging.
Shane had just biffed it really bad.

If that other bear didn't bite, this one better.

Cute.
Cindy standing in the Gates of the Mountains.
Thrilled.
AWWWWW.
Yes Michael can tie shoes.

I love this picture of Mom.

Proof that Cindy played with the Boys.

Montana Part 3

We will just dub this the never get out of Helena Day. We started out our morning at the Motel. When we were eating our free breakfast who should appear, but Cody's new wife Amy. Apparently they spent their wedding night in the same Motel as us. I asked Amy where Cody was and she said he was sleeping. They had partied at their reception until 1:30 in the morning. We then went out to Grandma Donnelly's house in Vaughn. I'm sorry I have no pictures of it. It is perfect for her. We did troop out to her garage to look at the casket that she has already bought that she stores sugar in. It is a Pine box just like Dad's and Grandpa Donnelly's. She is just thinking ahead. We then piled into our vehicles to leave. Eric and I had Jimmy and Rhett in Mom's car and Mom and Cindy went with Jessica and Michael and Shane. Rhett and Jimmy entertained each other pretty well. The counted the Mountains we were driving through. I think they made it to 77. They also told each other strange little stories to see if the other would believe them. Things like if a Bear could fly to a Gas Station would it blow up. They also used their water bottles as telescopes and saw lots of wildlife. We made it to the first rest stop outside of Great Falls before Rhett said he had to go to the bathroom. So we stopped. Then we were almost to Helena when Eric started getting tired. I called Cindy on her cell phone and told her we would have to stop somewhere in Helena so we could switch drivers. She didn't listen and Michael pulled off in a Truck Stop almost immediately. I drove to Helena and Cindy called and said to follow Michael no matter what. We wound around Helena for a bit and ended up at an inside Carousal. The boys loved it. Mom bought 12 tokens and if you had a child with you you could ride for free. We all got three rides except for Mom. She choose not to ride. This was only the beginning of our adventure in Helena..........to be continued.........

Mom's video of Jimmy feeding the ducks is better, so a little repeat from Day 2.

Montana Part 2

So this is day 2 of the Montana trip, Saturday June 7th. We were all very tired. Shane woke up crying at 5 in the morning and woke everybody up. That made for a very long day. Michael had to work for half of the day. Cindy decided she wanted to go work with him and she got very muddy helping him change a Pivot tire (A Pivot is a big sprinkler). Sorry no picture of that, because Eric, Mom and Jimmy and I had already left for Great Falls. We went out to the Ranch for therapy for Mom. Everything is overgrown with weeds and our tree that had the treehouse by the pond is dead. We saw Janet's boyfriend Rich out there. He had rented a big dumpster and was cleaning up the junk. He is a very nice guy. We had met him a week earlier when they came back from a training in Texas. He showed Jimmy a dead snake ( a bull snake). Then we went back to town and checked into our Motel and got ready for the wedding. Sorry I have no pictures of the wedding. It went by so fast I never had a chance to get my camera out. Jessica took pictures and she is going to send me a disk and hopefully I can put those pictures on the blog. Cody was wearing a brown suit with sandals and socks. His groomsmen were to, so at least he was consistent. Amy was wearing a cream colored dress with turquoise band across the top and bottom. Don, Cody's brother performed the cermony. I guess in Montana just about anyone can perform a wedding. It was very fast. Then they went and stood in the back in their line. By this time the alcohol was flowing freely. We stayed for a banquet dinner. There was lots of hugging with Dad's family, but we left early and went to visit Janet at her work. Rich pulled up just as we did with his motorcycle and he let Jimmy sit on it. Jimmy loved that. Then Michael and Jessica and Cindy and Rhett and Shane went out to the ranch at Mom and Jimmy and Eric and I went to Gibson Park and fed the ducks. It was freezing cold. Jimmy by this point was beyond tired and cranky, so we drove around Great Falls a little and then went back to the Motel and went to Bed. To be continued.........

Another view of Michael's Trampoline jumping
This is a beautiful lake you can see from Michael's
Walking back from looking at the original Sitz Ranch House.

Rich and the Motorcycle.

Standing around eating push-pops on Janet's break.

Feeding the ducks.

Eric forgot his jacket and I had my coat, so his wearing my Jacket. He looks better in it than I do.
Video of Jimmy and the ducks.

Montana Trip Part 1

So this is the Montana Saga. This will probably take a few posts, so bear with me. We left on Friday June 6th and drove to Michael and Jessica's house in Harrison, MT. Our ultimate goal was Great Falls and my cousin Cody's wedding.

Jimmy's new attaire while we drive. His Barf Bowl. Yes the kid gets car sick.
Here we are at the Museum of Natural History of Idaho in Pocatello.
Cindy in her mask.
Jimmy being a Monkey.


Jimmy with a T-Rex head.

Michael works for the Sitz Ranch. This is the sign as you turn off the paved road onto a dirt road.

You go for about 6 miles before you reach Michael's.

Mom jumping on a Trampoline?

This is Michael's house. It is very old. It was converted from a school house. It has 5 bedrooms and 1 bath. Jessica got some steak from Michael's boss, because you will never taste a better steak then theirs.

We are putting the boys to bed at 11:30 at night. Poor kids. Jimmy will be a beast the next day.

Michael's house is in a beautiful area and he is happy working there. To be continued........

Cleaning the Bathroom and Pre-School Graduation

I thought since Jimmy has a Bathroom all to himself, He could start helping me clean it. He did a very good job of wiping things down. He really liked standing in the bathtub with me and washing it out. He is dying to use the toliet brush, but I'm not ready for that yet, so he will have to wait.

This is Jimmy's Pre-school class. Jimmy is on the end holding up the wall. For some reason the wall was his friend and he would not budge from it.

Here is the happy graduate. Now we get ready for Kindergarten.

Mothers Day

All Grandma Clark wanted for Mother's day was to have her family that lives here to come to church with her and to have a lunch after. So The Barretts, The Prices, Tiffanie and her girls, The Clarks and Grandma and Grandpa went to Grandma's Sacrament Meeting and then came back to lunch at my house. Here is some video of the shindig.

Primary Talk

This was Jimmy's talk he gave in Primary a couple of months ago. We did again for Grandma and Grandpa Clark for a Family Home evening. When he gave the talk in Primary I have never seen our Primary sit so still and listen to a talk. He practically yelled every word and enunciated so much that they were repeating the words back to him. What a ham.