Saturday, July 9, 2011

4th of July in Montana!

Warning - there are a TON of pictures here! :) We went to Montana last weekend to visit my new baby niece Fern! She is SO SO cute!! I could NOT stop taking pictures of her! She is 2 months old in these pictures.
Violet and Willa LOVED her! They are in the midst of a big "baby phase" where they play babies ALL.THE.TIME so it was great timing! Violet was so excited to get to hold and snuggle with her a lot!

Baby Fern gets a Thumbs Up!
And lots of kisses!
So sweet!
Violet is holding her hand

Willa pretending to sleepJon got his newborn snuggle time in two. It made us both miss those days a little bit!
The picture above reminded me SO much of this picture of Jon with Willa and Violet when Willa was just a few days old!
We went to a great 4th of July parade in Ennis, Montana. It was so cool and very "out west"... although I really enjoyed the fact that everyone was drinking Bloody Mary's! New 4th of July tradition around here I think!

Kelly, Brett and Fern snuggled up in her carrier.
The happy family :)We went to Kelly's sisters house in Ennis for lunch. They have a FANTASTIC view of the mountains!
Uncle Brett, Willa and DaddyBack in Bozeman at night, we went to Brett's old house to watch the fireworks. He lived for years in these converted grain silos!
Violet tried out a sparkler (she was pretty scared of it - boo hoo!)Jon and Brett went up the hill behind the silos - you could see for MILES and MILES and Jon said he saw hundreds of fireworks! It was a little too steep for us to try with the girls - maybe next time!
My brother works at the local hot springs, so we got to go test it out with the girls! Willa LOVED it. It was too hot for Violet but she did try it near the end!

Violet thinking about taking a dip. Nice tan-line Jon!
Violet wearing Daddy's hat and sunglasses while we were out for lunch.
Saying good-bye to Fern (and Brett & Kelly) was HARD! I am going to miss that little lady! Luckily we have Skype and more road-trips coming up!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Lakeside!

We finally visited Lakeside Amusement Park! It's pretty old school and we LOVED it!

The girls on the ladybugs:
Violet and her best buddy Ella on the kiddie roller coaster (I still can't believe Violet actually went on it!)
Willa with a silly grin on the horse carriage ride:
Willa, Violet and Ella on a boat:
Daddy, Violet and Ella try out The Whip (which is now Violet's favorite)