Picnic on the Gallatin

I packed a lunch and hauled the kids down to one of my favorite spots on Earth:  the Gallatin River.  We had fun being outside and splashing around in the freezing water.  Just a few more days until school starts so I'm trying to squeeze in all the fun that we can get.

 

 

New Home

This is our new home!  We have to wait until October to move in, but we are so excited.  It's just an itty-bitty babydoll house, which is what we wanted for now.  This will give us the time we need to search for land and build the dream home someday.  And then we'll turn this into a rental/income property.  But for now ... beyond excited to get into this and get settled.  Perfect!

I'll add updated photos of the progress as we go along.

Who Is This Peach Muffin?

Christiana...

I love this little girl so much.

Bungee Trampoline and Rock Climbing

More fun and games in Big Sky!

Feeling So Blessed

We are feeling so blessed to be in Montana.  We shopped a few homes today and I took these of our surroundings while we were waiting for our Realtor to arrive.  Lucky us.

Hooray!

We have rented a condo for the month of August in Big Sky, which is a beeea-utiful

 ski resort just south of Bozeman.  Jason doesn't begin work until September so we are being lazy and having fun with the kids, house-hunting in Bozeman, and taking in the sights and sounds of this amazing place.  We went on two different hikes today.  It's so fun just hanging around.

This morning we woke up and found a moose outside our window.  A moose!  We were all in the kitchen and Jimmy ran back to our bedroom and was yelling at us to hurry up and come see this!  So we ran back to our room and this moose was right next to our window eating the grass.  We could have reached our hand through the window and scratched his head.  It was amazing.  We were all screaming.

 This is our view of part of the ski resort off our back patio.  Glorious, isn't it?

And Christiana is so cute.  We are having a blast in our teeny-tiny condo.  Hooray for Montana!

Bozeman, Montana

We've left California.  We're now in Bozeman, Montana ... our new home.  We are so happy.  Beyond happy.

Jacob and Jimmy before church in California.

 In Plano, Idaho at the cemetery where Jason's dad, Clair, is buried.  Very special.

 The Rexburg Idaho Temple.  Really, really tall spire!  Gorgeous temple.

 The boys racing up the stairs at the temple.  Of course, everything's a race and/or competition.

 Christiana looking cute at the temple.

I took this picture today of our surroundings in Bozeman.  We were driving around and I made Jason pull over so I could jump out and take this picture.  It's so beautiful here.  I can't believe this will be home.  I feel so lucky.  And the best thing of all is that our family is finally all together after being separated since early June.  We're eager to get settled and begin our new adventure.