Boomer's First Birthday!

The kids insisted on having a birthday party for Boomer so we put a candle in his food. He was not impressed, but the kids thought it was fun!

LEGO Creations

We LOVE LEGO at the Golding house...The boys have come up with some pretty great designs. I am super excited about the new LEGO products just for girls!

This is the American Flag that Garrett designed...

And, this is the Fortress that Wyatt designed...

Day Camp

I was able to spend the day with Wyatt at his Cub Scout Day Camp. It was such a fun day! The camp itself was in a beautiful forested area with a maze of pathways. The Boy Scout volunteers made the ceremonies fun with their goofy skits and chants.

  We participated in BB shooting and marbles, and the rest of the day was just a fun day with water play and lots of goodies to buy at the scout store. I love the scouting program.

Our big Montana news...

We were so excited when we received word that we would be moving to Montana...Well, mostly excited. I was pretty nervous about it...We had just not been enjoying living in Portland and I did not want to make another major move and end up hating where we ended up...So I asked Travis to take us to Montana so that we could check it out and get a feel for it... We loved everything about our trip and the people that we met and the places that we explored! We are so happy to be here and just need to find that perfect little house to settle in...That's the plan anyway!

We broke up the 12-hour drive with a few stops along the way...We stayed at a Wal-mart parking lot in honor of Nanny and Poppy! The second night we stayed in Missoula at JellyStone Park...We were all excited about that because we had just seen the Yogi Bear movie...It was a nice campground, but it was missing the Yoginess.
The kids were very excited to be out of the truck and to release their energy in the playground.

The stayed at the Lewis and Clark caverns for a couple of nights. It was nice, but there were so many mosquitoes. And, Wyatt learned the hard way the mosquitoes LOVE him!

We kind of got lost one night looking for a campground and ended up in our new favorite camping location...It was beautiful!

The kids each choose a little souvenir from the gift shop. This coonskin hat caught Garrett's eye. I think he wore it all week and many hundred times since!

We were having such a good time exploring until the rainclouds burst open on us! We had to hurry almost a mile back to our trailer! We were soaked. And, having no kettle or electricity to run the microwave, we had to use our skillet to make hot cocoa! It was a great night!

Wyatt choose this Montana pocketknife. The first of a growing collection.

Boomer played sooooo hard that I think he made himself sick. He didn't do much the next day!

Summer 2011

What a better way to start my monstrous update than with a nice warm day at the beach!!! It is freezing in Montana~~~

We celebrated the 4th of July with my baby sister and her family. It was so much fun and we did sooooo much that we were all beat by the end of the week!

We began the festivities at Cannon Beach---One of the few things that I miss about Oregon. You may recognize this first picture from Goonies. This is the beach scene from the beginning of the movie. It is an amazing beach!! Unfortunately, even though the sun is shining and the skies are clear, it was a very cold, very windy day at the beach...try "sand"wiches for lunch!

Alyssa enjoyed using Jack's beach toys...

We took a loooooooong walk on the beach to try to warm ourselves up a bit...

Garrett didn't care about the wind or cold...

Boomer had a blast with Aunt Keri...

Garrett and Jack had fun racing the waves...

I love how Jack is looking up to Garrett! We have awesome cousins!



Where are those waves??



The smaller rocks were covered with Sea Lions...

Haystack Rock...

Garrett fell in love with this driftwood...

Pics with Aunt Keri and Jack...

Garrett and Mom...



Everyone had kites...It was quite a sight!

After the beach we came home and made pretzel firecrackers with melted chocolate and sprinkles.

It was a hit!

Alyssa's Creation..

Wyatt let me take some pictures...

After dinner and dessert, Pete and Wyatt put on a pretty fantastic firework display, even if it wasn't choreographed to "The Star Spangled Banner."

Later in the week we met Keri downtown and played in this fountain. It was a little chilly in the shade, but I think every block needs on of these awesome fountains.

Garrett getting soaked...

If this isn't one of the cutest kids I don't know who is...

Maybe this little man...

After drying up from the water fountain we wondered the streets of Portland looking for the food trucks. If you are ever in Portland...the food trucks are a MUST!!!

Yummy!!!

Thanks Keri and Pete for celebrating the 4th with us!

We miss you like crazy!!!