Saturday Melanie and I took the kids to go play in the fountain down town! It was perfect, nobody was there but us and the kids had a blast!

P man!

At first Lexi didn't want to get her hair wet so she sat with Kolbi and watched from a safe distance!

then we stopped off at the gas station, grabbed some hot dogs and headed to the park!

It was a great day!

Our last week at my moms!

The last week at my moms went by crazy fast and was a total blast! It started with a day full of shopping (imagine that!) to help the hours go by quickly as we anticipated my sisters arrival back from Europe!!

My crazy girls wanted to take these cute little girls and puppy home with them!

Lexi at the airport waiting for Aunt Shelby!

Me and my Lilly killing time waiting...

Shelby with her "home stay" daughter!

and she finally made it after a 5 hour delay in Germany and a 5 hour layover in Denver, not counting the other 20 hrs on the plane!

She definitely had the time of her life, she said it was THE BEST! I can't even begin to list all the awesome things she got to do, pretty much everything any tourist would want to see, she did it! Plus she got the opportunity to stay with a local family for 3 days (they spoke NO English, she ONLY speaks English!) so she also got to get a bit more insight to what a normal day is like over there!!

Then we last minute decided to stay and extra day for the 4th!!

Here's my crazy little family, minus 2 brothers (missed you guys!)!

I was so worried that the kids would burn themselves with the sparklers but in the end I was the only one who got burned, smart I know!

Lilly LOVED the fireworks!

Earlier that day we all went and fed some horses, the girls could have stayed there all day with them.

Preston!

then we took the kids to the national park where they became Junior Rangers!

Here's Preston getting his button!

Lilly getting hers!

and Lexi after she earned her badge!

What a fun 4th we had!!

Thanks mom for everything, we had a great month there!!

Another Zoo.

Yesterday we went to Minot and marked another Zoo off our list!

The girls in front of the Camels.
Preston and some utters!

Always a guaranteed laugh!

bad pic but the only one we got with half of us together!

an Elk, that was so close to us, we could have seriously grabbed his antlers.

my mom and Rod.

Robby.

me and Lexi.

me and Preston.

Lexi taking a turn.

Can we say sugar high??? Thanks Nana!

Preston just loves the goats!

The bears, once again I can't believe how close you get to these animals, there was one little fence about a foot or two in front of their cage, it was crazy. There was a machine to feed them, when your food didn't make it in the cage they'd come up and grab the pieces that just fell short!

Lilly.

1 of the 3 brown bears!

Lexi.

Lexi in front of the Lions!

It was a pretty drive, a great lunch at Ruby Tuesdays and an awesome afternoon at the Zoo!!

Thanks Mom/Nana!

A stormy day...

Friday started off great! My mom sent me to go get my hair done, it's been FOREVER since I've gone anywhere to get it colored, it was nice!! I spent 4 hours there, the girl took her time since she knew I was getting a break from the kids,lol!

She also cut it, although you can't really tell here, since she didn't really style it. She did do an awesome job just brushing and blow drying it, I seriously just wanted to fall asleep!

Then the afternoon played out for everyone kinda lazy! (except Chris)

Then that's when we hear it....the beeping on the T.v... the loudest siren I've ever heard going off in town...

ToRnAdO watch and warning...

The siren only lasted about 5 minutes, enough to scare me, enough for everyone else in town to just shrug it off as another summer storm warning ( thankfully they've never actually had a tornado here!)

We drove a little bit outside of town to snap a few pics.

The rain pured down and the wind was A BLOWING!!!

and here is the aftermath of the storm, the 2 week old tramp. I blew across my moms yard, over the fence, took out a clothes line and into the neighbors yard!

Chris was on the roof til way after he should have been, but as soon as he got down he got the call that our car was done at the dealership, so off he went to Bismark! So when he called from KFC to see what kind of Chicken we wanted he heard to sirens going off in the back round and me going you seriously better hurry the h*ll up :) Well the storm passed through here and he got the pleasure of driving through it on the way home, the worst rain he's ever driven through I guess...

So I like to look at that day like this...

Hair "do" $90.00

new air hydraulic shock system $1,000

KFC 35.00

Trampoline 189.00

Not getting whisked away in the Storm = priceless

OK that was kinda cheesy, but seriously.... I'll pass on anymore sirens for a while!!