It's Monday night, and the weekend is over. It's been really nice though. Rick and I stayed home alone on Friday, and cleaned our house really good. That did get the weekend off to a good start, because nearly all our chores were done. We go the kids in bed and played Guitar Hero for awhile then went to bed early ourselves.
Saturday was nice. No soccer because of the holiday, and so we all slept in. I got up, made everyone breakfast, and then Brian and I took off to the Dollar Store to get stuff for Leslie's Birthday party next week. I had thought we had a birthday party that afternoon, but when I got to my friends house, I realized that I had the wrong weekend. So the kids and I went to the Carousel here in town, and I let them ride it for awhile, then we all got ice cream.
Brian and Leslie got cotton candy ice cream, and I got huckleberry. After that I let them play outside for awhile and then we headed home.
I stopped and got them Happy Meals from McDonald's, and we took them home so they could have dinner. Then we built a big campfire and roasted marshmallows, the kids "hunted for moles" in our garden, and rode their "quads" all over the yard. Finally, mellow, full and happy, I took them up, gave them showers to get the sticky off and put them into bed. They barely hit the pillow and they were sleeping. Don't you love love kids that are so tired they barely make a fuss going to bed? That's when I know I've done a good job that day.
Sunday we just stayed home, it was rainy and cold all day, so we took long naps with the kids, BBQ'ed steaks for dinner, and just chilled out.
On Saturday, Rick installed the new seats for the kids on the 4-wheelers, and today, Monday we took them out for a ride. Leslie was behind me, and Brian was behind Rick. We just took an easy ride up into the Helena National Forrest behind our house, and up to Crystal Creek, and then over to East Helena and back. It started to rain, so it cut our ride a little shorter than we had planned, but it wiped the kids out. They did great, and I felt really comfortable with them on the back. It's as safe as we can make them so that we can take them with us. Obviously, we will do pretty easy flat rides with them, as I have no intention of doing any hard rocky trails. That being said, Brian and Leslie LOVED it. It was great to finally be able to take them with us, and we had a nice day together. Here are some photo's from today, as well as a small video of McClellan Creek.
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