March 2015

Here are some pictures of what went on in March!

Colter went on to County Science Fair and got a red ribbon.

All of the glues that he tested were pretty strong.  The hot glue was

the weakest hold.  The Elmers wood glue, JB weld, and Gorilla glue

all held up under lots of pull and often the wood broke before the glued joints!

Then came Maya's Science Fair.  Here she is just after she received a

Reserve Champion Award 

in the 4th Grade Biological catagory...

Here she is with her project.  She watered her bean plants with Root Beer, Diet Root Beer,
Milk, Orange Juice, and Coffee.  She found that the plants watered with Diet Root Beer
and Coffee did the best.  Maybe it was the absence of sugar and the acidity in the liquids.
Anyway, it was a fun project!

In March Ryan and Jeannie and family came to visit us.
One evening, we got to go out to dinner together, just us couples.
It was SO NICE!

Kyla and Morgan...

And here they are out fishing.  Again!  Lane and Logan and Ryan got in on the fun this time...

Not too much later, Grandpa Larry came to visit us and they all went out fishing again.
This was the last hurrah!...

Melita and I got in a couple trips to the park to play on the playground as our
days started getting warmer...

Love these pictures of her having fun at the playground.  Our life gets so busy and sometimes
I forget to work in time for just her and I.  I was lucky to be able to do it a few times this spring!

For Spring Break, we headed down to Wyoming to visit Keith and Melinda and family.
It was horrifically windy on our trip down and we got stopped on the freeway between
Butte, Montana and Idaho Falls, Idaho by 2 semi's down on the road.
The kids climbed the hill as we were waiting for the semi to be removed from the road
and Kyla took these pictures.  You can see the semi laid across the road in this picture...

Looking back the other way  you can see the other semi laid down on the side of the road going East.
 It was nice to get out of the car and walk around a bit and then we were headed on our way again,
 fighting the wind the whole time...

We had a great time down in Jackson Hole.  Here we are on a walk we took under the Teton's.
Me, my Mom and my Sister...

Picnic lunch after our walk...

A walk and little shopping in Jackson...

We kept going back and back to this bouldering park while we were there...

It was great fun.  I think it's a great place to go when you start feeling like climbing the walls...

After we returned home, Kyla started checking into our area to see if anything was in the works for
a bouldering area here.  Sure enough, there is a group of people raising money to
put one up in one of our parks.  Should be getting it done soon!  So now we will have a place to
go when we feel like climbing the walls too! Here is more info for any of you locals... Kalispell Boulder Project.