Montana!

Ok, so here's what happens when you don't update your blog for two weeks and have a picture-taking problem (more than 1,000 on this trip):  you end up overloading.  But here we go.  The ride to Yaya's was pretty good for the most part.  Kylie doesn't like the car, so here is Dylan's usual pose in the backseat (in response to her crying):

And this is his "guilty" look--in other words, yes, I did just slap my big sister in the head:

We spent the first day just chilling at mom and dad's (well, Doug did homework).  Deva stopped by, though, so we got to chat with her and play with the Umphrey girls for a while:

Wednesday, we spent the better part of the day at Grandma Umphrey/Joy's house.  Keilana and Dylan liked her big box of toys, but they loved her big bag of Fruit Loops better. I love my grandma and have lots and lots of respect for her.  She's a little crazy and, like myself, she talks too fast, but I think she's awesome.
We kept hanging around my Mom's house waiting for Doug to finish homework, but when it finally started to feel like there was no end in sight we set off without him.  We spent the afternoon on Wednesday over at Christa's house.  They just added a great big addition to their house and it looks awesome.  Dylan loved Christa's house, since there he can find all his favorite things: cousins, guns (not picture), cars:
boxing: (oh, this was too funny.  These two are both scrappers--though Dylan in usually a more lighthearted manner than Zoran, and loved having each other to fight with):
Lex prefers radios, but his mom's camera was sufficient for the moment.
Both my kids love trampolines, and everybody has one up there.  Classic Keilana:

After the fun afternoon at Christa's and a stop at Christina and Eldon's after Doug emerged from the basement of homework (their gardens/yard are coming along nicely.  I'm just a smidgeon jealous.  They're cool folk, those two:) ), we all had a hot dog roast over at Mom and Dad's.  From that point out, Dylan was incessantly asking for hot dogs in the hopes that we'd light another fire.



And the kids checked out Yaya and Papa's (not quite finished) new deck:

While the rest of the grown ups left to do their grueling walking test and standards, Christina challenged Doug to a barrel race (my parents just have a few of these hanging around the yard for just such recreation purposes):

As you can see, Doug was super good at this activity.  This is my favorite "falling" picture I got.

The next day, we took the kids down to play at Dragon's Hollow and the Carousel.  Gwen met us there with her girls, and Mom met us there as well.  It was a gorgeous Montana spring day and we had a blast.