August--celebrating Morgan's birthday--being in Montana!!
check, check, check!
It seems that August has become our time to head to Grama & Papa Haugen's and
try to get my whole family together and have some end of
summer fun!
We tend to be there either during the county fair or smack dab on Morgan's birthday!!
We went a week later this year, so we missed out on the fair, but we celebrated Miss Mo's birthday in style!
Candles in a donut for her breakfast--perfect!!
Marshall loves loves loves this 4-wheeler! Standing--no hands--eyes closed....
you name it and that's how he rode it!
We also enjoy our time out at my Uncle Larry's! With 5 horses (some are just being boarded there)
the girls are in their element! Malia especially loves these monster animals and enjoys getting them
ready to ride! She has become quite the horseman and I think would spend all her
time out on the ranch!
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| Girls with Suzie-Q |
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| Trampoline for the little crazy peeps! |
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| Heading out on a ride on the "real" 4-wheeler with daddy! |
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| I love the rolling hills and back roads! |
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| Heading out on a trail ride with Auntie Wendy! |
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| On the hill above their property--Malia in the lead! |
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| Church at the nursing home with Great Grama. |
Monkeying around....
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| Super star! |
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| One of the elementary schools just built this awesome new playground!! Score!! |
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Cleo--sitting still for a couple minutes! She's a little
unsure of Marshall! |
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| Luscious--such a patient pooch! We love her! |
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| Auntie Mel's IPad was very popular! First time playing Angry birds for our household! |
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| We also celebrated Erica's birthday! She'll be 5 in September! |
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| Happy Birthday! |
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| Time for a mini-pedicure! |
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| Catching some bugs with Erica! |
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| Love this big BUG! |
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Great Grampa and the electric fly swatter! Marshall tried to "borrow" it but Great Gramps
was not giving it up! |
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| Hunter Sven |
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| Cooling off & goofin around! |
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| Silly boy--who are you?? Where's your cute face? |
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| Oh, Luscious...she's just such a good dog! |
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| Good job Morgan--leading Suzie-Q all on her own!! Way to go! |
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| Time to trot?? |
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| Papa & Marshall...trying to catch up to big sis Malia! |
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| Ribs Dinner--Some good cooks in my family! |
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| My parents and all their Grandkids & Grandpups! |
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| The whole family--minus Tim & Jose--(somebody had to take the pics!) |
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| Hunter & Malia...looking forward to 4th grade!! |
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| My brother and his kids! |
It was a great week and it's always amazing at how fast the time flies. You look forward to this all summer, then it's here and then it's over and we're all headed home and getting ready for school.
The kids all enjoy being at Grama & Papa's and definitely look forward to seeing their cousins.
I love being with my family like this and having our kids experience Montana--it's how I remember going to Wyoming every year to visit my grandparents, ride horse at my Aunt Pat's and just make some awesome memories and then looking forward to next year and doing it all over again! Good times!
I even had a chance to see three great friends from high school! We haven't all been together in about 10 years and to sit and chat for almost 4 hours was the best. So good to catch up and hear about each others lives! Next time---we'll remember to take a pic!
