Montana 1

I'm not sure how many installments there will be from our trip, but here is the first one.

I was beyond nervous about the flying part. I just didn't want the boys to freak out on the plane and make everyone around us miserable. I can handle being miserable, but I didn't want to ruin everyone else's trip. We decided to take klp's car seat and that is THE BEST thing we did. We had to buy him a ticket anyways so with the car seat he was strapped in and not climbing all over us. He sat in his seat and was contained and easier to entertain that way (and we thought the chances of him going to sleep might be better). We have to make a pit stop in Denver so the trip was broken up into 2 flights. klp was kinda wild on the first flight, but THANKFULLY he likes to eat now, so we could feed him crackers and apples to entertain him. And he drank about a gallon of water, but all in all he did pretty good.

Q mans' first flight was good, he just climbed all over me and drenched my hair in slobber. He's recently become very attached to my hair, but he's not sweet about it, he PULLS!
We made the first flight pretty good and walked quickly to our next gate to catch our plane to Billings. We got there and the area was FULL of people, lots of flights were delayed.....including ours. They just kept delaying and delaying. Both kids were DONE at this point and so were we!! We had already been traveling for 10 hours! UGHH!! We just kept pushing them around in the stroller trying to keep Q awake so he would sleep on the plane. FINALLY we got on the plane to head to Billings, Q was asleep, klp was being nice and quiet. ahhhhhh. We got about 20 min. in the air and they came over the speaker and said we had to go BACK to Denver because the a/c was broken on the plane. It was super hot, but SERIOUSLY, we'd all be OK, we just wanted to get there. The speaker woke q up and he started screaming. By the time we landed in Denver (again) everyone around us was saying, "just let her off with that baby!" They were really sweet, offering to help Kory carry the rest of the stuff so I could just get him off the plane. I was the first one off and fed Q and got him happy again. They ended up canceling our flight and there were no more flights to Billings that night and the next one was the next afternoon at 4:00. They did have a flight to Bozeman. SOOOOO Kory's mom (who had driven 2 hours to pick us up in Billings) stayed there in case our bags didn't make it with us to our new destination. We called Kory's brother who lives in Bozeman and he said he could pick us up. So, we waited about another 1 1/2 hrs and FINALLY got on a nice comfy flight to Bozeman. It wasn't crowded so we all had a row to ourselves. klp and KLP slept, and qsp decided to be a night owl and play, but he was good and quiet. We finally got to Bozeman and were so thankful Clint and Sydni let us crash at their house. They even provided toothbrushes and other necessities we didn't have since we didn't have our bags. It was a crazy trip, but the good thing was we got to see Clint, Sydni, Sayler, and Hayven sooner!!!

klp immediately attached himself to Sayler and followed her everywhere.
Kory's mom was able to get our bags the next morning and met us in some town (sorry, don't know all my MT towns) to take us home to Lewistown...FINALLY!!! The boys crashed in the car. But only with me holding their heads up!!! YIKES! qsp's car seat was with Susan, so he got to ride in a big boy forward facing one and he just couldn't keep his head up! Not sure how my arms got twisted, but oh well. They were sleeping!

Wes and Susan are remodeling their bathroom, so there was no bathtub. So, we used the big sink in the mud room! Kan loved it!
Gram scrubbing!
The first morning we were there, there was pretty fog. I couldn't get a good pic, but its the big white strip across the back of the picture.
What a cute window decoration!!!
Sunday morning church....matchy boys!
One of the highlights of the trip for me was getting to tag along with Tye elk hunting. Oh boy I loved it!! He never killed one, but he had some pretty close calls. One with a bear and one with an elk. Sheesh!!!!
These were taken on our first trip up the mountains behind their house.



The Aspen trees were particularly beautiful and Fallish!
We got in that night and saw this: A pantsless boy learning how to roll dice. I LOVE this picture.
We went with Dad one morning to do a few little jobs. klp helped the fences. "Helped".
Just about every afternoon, he had his snack in the shop while the guys worked. Gram had a tomato plant and he ate at least one a day along with some crackers. FYI we packed light so we pretty much wore the same "play clothes" and sweatshirts the whole time. So don't judge.
These were his "work" jeans after the first day. He scooted all over the place. His jeans may never be the same, but I'm glad!
A little cuddle time with Chief
Tye and Kory moving a couple of horses to the corrals.

KLP and klp on a 4 wheeler ride with Chief and qsp
Uncle Tye and Kanyon saying hi to Rocky the horse.....
and feeding him.
I have MANY MANY MORE pics to come!!!