Winner, winner.

Just a quick post to say how proud I am of my mom for winning the Missoula County Public Library Annual Writing Contest in both fiction AND non-fiction for adults. Seriously people. Both categories, first place.
Unfortunately I am no longer allowed to publish photos of said writer on the internet...so the picture of her stack of winnings will have to suffice...

Bottle Baby

Grandpa Jack giving Jackson some tips on how to bottle feed a hungry baby exotic sheep. The thing is so darned cute...all I want to do is hug it.

Ranch Hand

Here are some snapshots of Matt and Jackson out on the ranch helping Grandpa Jack. I think I have a farmer in the making. :) Or maybe even two. :) :)

Haircut

Jackson is sporting a new "boy" haircut...thanks to Grandma. He decided the other day that he wanted it cut "like his dad's"...so away to the kitchen...He was REALLY mad when it was all over because he expected to have Matt's exact hair...color and everything (or maybe "grape colored":) and was disapointed that it was "still yellow." Everyone else likes it...especially me..alot easier to keep this 'do free of tangles.

Misc.

Bubbles

Picnic

My mom and I took the kids up the Bitterroot yesterday for an afternoon of hking and a little picnic (which for Jackson consisted entirely of strawberries.) Also a stop by the river on the way back on the trail, where Jackson discovered he could wade right through to get to the cool rocks farther out...he was soaking wet by the time we got out of there.

Easter,Phase Two

Jackson had a great Easter egg hunt with his cousins at Grandma Ellen and Grandpa Jack's house on Easter. 48 eggs were found by five children, all of them stuffed with great surprises (even....money, to the surprise and delight of the kids) and even the baby found a few!

Easter, Phase One

Easter at Grandma's was a whirlwind event. We found out the night before that Silas was going to go to Seattle with my dad on Sunday...so we had about three hours on Sunday morning to open Easter baskets, dye eggs and have a couple of egg hunts...but we pulled it off and the kids had a great time!!