Welcome to Kalispell, Montana!!!

Okay well this is really Flat Head Lake, but Kalispell is located in the Flat Head Valley, so this is what you see when you come over the hill to the valley. This was our room and the view from our window. We were on the first floor right next to the hospitality room and we had this pretty view of the courtyard with a stream running through it and fish in the stream! How fun!

Ready for Some Swimming

I thought this was hilarious! The night before we left Missoula I told Ayla that we were going to go to a new hotel tomorrow that has a swimming pool. She imediately went to her suit case got both parts of her swimming suit out, put them on her legs and went to the door to try to get out! So excited to swim!

First Stop Missoula

We spent the first 2 and 1/2 days with our good friends the Boulters in Missoula. We had so much fun! Most of these pictures were taken at this amazing park. It had a huge castle or fortress with slides and rockclimbing walls and anything you could imagine. There were fun cute outs of animals and all kinds of stuff, even a real carasel!!!

As you can see Ayla loved the baby, check out that hug!

Halloween

Ayla set this pose up herself she put Bupo on the one pumpkin and then climbed up on the other and wanted her picture taken! I love the look on her face it's so serious and like okay here we go. You can see in the picture below she was also setting up the pose!

First things first, I've got to get these Halloween pictures up! I have a million other things that I should be doing right now, but I'm chosing to update you on my pictures... hmmm maybe I need to prioritze better!

Anyway, of course Ayla was a bee this year for Halloween! She's been obsessed with bees lately so it seemed like the perfect choice! I made her little costume a few weeks ago and had to make one for Bupo too, Bupo's still wearing his, it's kind of funny to me a buffalo dressed up as a bee! Before Halloween she would go get her costume out of her closet and tell me she wanted to be a bee and then she would say "and Bupo Bee?"

Just a little teaser for ya: I cut Ayla's hair yesterday, so stay tuned for those pictures coming soon!

Hello from Kalispell

I finally have an internet connection! The wireless wasn't working on Tony's laptop and the hotel charges for the use of their computer :( . So Tony got his computer fixed but we are driving home tomorrow so you'll have to wait for the whole update cause I also forgot the connector for my camera so I can't down load the pictures for ya! So here are some oldies but goodies! These were from last December (almost a year ago is all) when we were here in Kalispell. I can't believe how little Ayla was, she was still a baby! We left last Friday early morning and drove to Missoula where we stayed until Sunday. Then we drove about 2 hours to the Flat Head Valley and around Flat Head Lake to KALISPELL. So we got here on Sunday. Tony's been working every day and Ayla and I have been walking around the hotel and the mall that's connected until he gets home. The days go really fast! Ayla did so well on the drive! We were very proud of her, once we pulled off the exit for Missoula she got really antsy but other than that she was happy as can be! We are going to try to leave early early early tomorrow morning because the drive from Kalispell is obviously 2 hours longer and the longer she will sleep the quicker we can do it! Today we are going to try to go to Glacier National Park, it will just depend on what time Tony gets off work. It gets dark so early up here and when it gets dark it's pitch black so hard to see anything. We are having a good time, can't believe it's almost time to come home already!

Feelin' Crafty

I've been sewing like crazy the last couple weeks. I've been making cotton receiving blankets for all the little babies that are coming soon. I loved the cotton blankets for nursing... especially in the summer. So I also got a bee in my bonnet to sew my drapes for the front room and put up my curtain rod (that I've had for 4 1/2 years). I also have Trina's quilt up. I love having a quilt up, especially since hers is black it matches my halloween decor! As you can see Ayla loves helping me quilt! That girl loves helping me anything! Her way of helping is pulling the pins out of the side and sticking them in the dots (how funny huh?) and then bouncing the quilt while I'm trying to work on it! The first day it was up she thought it was a trampoline- but now it's just a trampoline for bupo. I've also been working on the fisherman picture (if you want to see that click the side link there), I'm going to have Tony take some pictures of how I work on that cause I do it on a folding table and Ayla is usually climbing all over me and laying on the table while I'm working on it- so funny! She has her own picture she colors with me but apparently it takes a lot of movement.

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