A Veritable Smorgasbord of Random Photos

Definitely the longest title thus far, but that, my friends is exactly what this is. I figure catch-up is much easier with visuals, so here we go. . .


A few weeks ago we travelled up to Idaho, dropped Reese off with my parents and proceeded on (ha, any Lewis and Clark fans out there will get a kick out of that one) to Great Falls. Our plan? Check out the city, make sure we loved it, take a look at the apartment (which is AWESOME), and last but not least, fall in love with a copper-colored golden retriever at the local pet store that Ryan repeatedly and emphatically told me could not possibly come home with us.

This is Ry in front of the. . .well, I assume you can read the sign. This will be his new home for the summer- an insanely cool museum that we had a blast going through not once, but twice. Dress up pictures to follow.

This is me dressed up as Sacagawea, a kick-butt girl who carried her little baby ON HER HEAD over the mountains. That thing was seriously heavy, and not only that, but you couldn't hear a dang thing with the leather straps over your ears. Here I am, pointing the way to the exit, since I, too, am a kick butt girl. . . who was ready for some lunch.

How can you possibly pass up trying on costumes when there are like fifty hanging on the wall with a giant mirror right in front of you?! This is us as Lewis, and well, . . .Lewis. Yeah, that isn't historically accurate, but I think we look cute in our twinner get-up.

This is me as an Indian.

And Ryan too. I think we look quite authentic- you know, hair, coloring, goofy grins. We'd totally fit in.

This picture doesn't do it justice since its kinda cloudy and dull, but the Missouri was so pretty with all of the falls (hence the name of the town). Kill all the gnats and it would be a pretty much perfect place to live.

So, I would put in several more photos here of Great Falls, the Center, the Apartment, etc. but my computer is being selective on which photos it will and will not upload, so you can just use your imagination (or come visit us this summer! We know of a great B&B where you can stay!;)

This is kindof in reverse order, but on the way up we actually stopped at the Tauphus Park Zoo in IF, which I hadn't seen since I was like nine. Anyway, we had a great time- and don't worry, that tiger behind Reese was actually quite friendly. :)

They had a little petting zoo with some very smelly llamas and a few toys to climb on. I tried to get Reese to sit on the chicken with me repeatedly, but she flatly refused. Apparently this chicken was just waiting for its chance to come to life and bite her little nose off.

Skip to when we came home. One of the best $1 investments I ever made was a giant bubble wand from Wal-Mart the other day. We have now spent several days at the park blowing bubbles and having them pop into sloppy, sticky messes all over us as we chase after them. Reese loves them so much it made the impulse purchase completely worth it.

This is just Reesey being adorable. Which she's actually really good at. She's recently learned to smile for the camara, which makes the pictures so much better than when she just looked at the red, blinking light with a stunned look on her face.

So, uh, the other day Reese came out of our room wearing this. Nice dress, huh? She apparently found Ry's swim shorts in one of his drawers and managed to swathe herself in the various layers of it. She came out like a beauty queen who'd just been announced as the winner.

And this one just might be my favorite of all. Just because I'm the mom and I wanted to, I decided to put Reesey in her bathing suit a few weeks ago. I love this one- the ruffle, the stripes, the colors. Heck, I'd probably wear it if I could look that cute with a belly like hers. Anyway, she disappeared for a few minutes and I found her huffing and puffing as she struggled into my high heels. Love it!