So I know these posts are random and short, but that is my life right now.  I have three minutes right now while both kids are in timeout for hitting each other...But when they play well together they are so cute, right?  (See above pic).

Here is Elynn with some tummy time.  Love that hair!

Here is a picture from our back porch.  This is Flathead lake during a snow/rain storm this past winter.  The kids LOVED sledding down our backyard hill.

Embree has regressed a bit since Elynn was born.  She was potty trained before Elynn and was not after Elynn came.  She also was off the bottle but wanted it back.  Now she is good again, but she still likes to sit in Elynn's carseat and pretend to be a baby.

We had a very mild winter.  Maddox learned to ride his bike without training wheels.  It took Jeff and him all of three or four tries until he had it down.

What would living in Montana be without cows?  Here is Jeff on an afternoon of cow branding and giving them shots.  Holy cow, do they stink!

Obviously this picture is the wrong way, but here I am with my three kids watching Daddy brand cows. Elynn loved it so much she fell asleep and Embree was a bit scared.

But they were not scared to ride the horses!  Embree and Maddox both have learned to trot and Embree galloped with my sister's help.  Valissa and I are going to live through Embree and enter her into barrel racing this summer.  Really Uncle Zanen is going to walk her around the barrels on the arena, but we still thought it would be fun and someday I think she will do it herself.  She loves it.  Until then we will have to settle for watching Jeff do some wild cow milking...

Embree has really picked up mothering. Here she is feeding her baby cheetos.  Not sure where she got cheetoes...probably my mom. The other day I caught her putting her baby on the toilet and washing its hands and wiping its bum, then she laid a blanket down and changed her diaper and put diaper rash cream on it.  I also found a piece of hard string cheese stuck in the baby's mouth.  I had to get a butter knife to get it out.  She is going to be a good mom someday!  She already baby's Elynn and is a great help.  She loved to help change diapers.

Here are the two troublemakers in their new jammies for summer. I say, "Cheese!" and this is what they do.  Embree smiles with her eyes closed and Maddox makes silly faces.

Here is Elynn at my brother's wedding.  Don't you love her shoes?  My sister-in-law, Rozalyn, gave them to me when I had Embree.  Elynn wears them every Sunday.

Elynn out helping us plant our garden!  What a good baby.  She is very strong, especially for a four month old. She can hold herself up with some assistance and rolls onto her side and loves tummy time and loved her jumparoo.  She now jumps on your lap whenever you hold her.  At her four month appointment she weighed 15 lb. 9 oz and was 25 inches long.  She is one chubby little girl.  Recently her ear drum burst and I didn't even know she was sick...She is such a good girl.

Here we are planting our garden.  Now sure that it will grow, but the kids had fun.  Maddox made signs for all the plants and actually wrote out the names, Pepper, tomato, corn and peas.  It was so cute!  And Embree was really good at digging the plants and seeds up.

Here we are on Elynn's blessing day.  Jeff gave her such a wonderful blessing.  Overall, we are doing great!  We love it here in Polson.  The kids are doing great and really thriving.  We have great friends and feel very blessed.

Over the winter months, lots of arctic snow owls migrated to little ole Polson, MT.  I guess this happens only every 6 or 8 years.  So neat to see them!

Below is Maddox and Embree.  We got them bunkbeds and their new favorite game to play in building a fort and reading in it or watching a movie on the laptop in it or even sleeping in it.  Their idea of a fort is so cute.  You simply pile all the pillows, stuffed animals, and blankets in the whole house wherever you want (in beds, in the hallway, in the kitchen, under the table, etc) and call it your fort.  So cute!

Here is little Elynn.  I think she will have blue eyes.  Maddox has brown.  Embree has hazel.

 One of my dear friends out here and one of her sons Kyler.  She has two others and is expecting a fourth.  We ran a 5K together and I actually ran the whole way...and about died from shin splints over the next couple days.

 Here is a pretty pic of the back side of our house.  The front overlooks Flathead lake. 

 Here is the whole family on race day.  It was to raise money for the YW to go to girl's camp.  Jeff is now very obsessed with running and biking and is doing sprit tris and is going to do a full tri this summer.