Saturday the Thirteenth

Last Saturday was CRAZY! Rich was in charge of the wheat grinding booth at the Emergency Preparedness Fair in Bozeman, and we wanted to go to Helena after the fair. So he left to set up at 9am, and the kids and I did some chores and followed him at 10:30. He did a demonstration for the whole 4 hours, so we have lots of great fresh ground wheat, AND we learned how great the impact grinders are. The fair was really cool-- there was a lot about creating, managing, and rotating/using your food storage, but also lots of first aid, fire prevention, financial planning, water storage and treatment, and alternative energy. The fire department had a cool mobile home there called the fire house and they took kids though to teach them about fire safety and they climbed out the back window at the end. They even served free lunch and lots of food storage samples. It was great fun! Here's Addie in the leaves outside the Stake Center.

LEAF GIRL! While Rich finished up at the fair, we went down the street to the Museum of the Rockies. Since we are members, we get mailings about new exhibits (over the summer it was King Tut's stuff) and the girls couldn't wait to go learn about bats.
The exhibit was wonderfully interactive and we had so much fun! See the girls hanging like bats? After that, we went upstairs to the Discovery Center...
...where the girls fought over this cool dinosaur costume...
...and Heidi hogged this cute little log cabin. James enjoyed "the pit" full of foam pads and cubes to stack and jump on. Sadly, I don't have a picture of that cuteness.
Crazy Addiegator
Here's are the girls having sun in the reading corner.

At 2:30pm, we picked up Daddy and drove to Helena. We went to Posties to help them with tile and see Uncle Michael. We wanted to see the Lehmans, too, but Darrin's mom arrived the same time we did and we never met up. We did, however, have a BLAST with Matt and Michael (Poor Amie had to work, but we stopped into see her around 8pm).

Our kids jumped out of hte car and immediately began playing with their cousins, Jake and Sam. They were all so happy to see eachother. Here's Ad pulling the wee ones around.
Heidi, Sam, James, and Jake.
Later, after dinner and furious playing, all the kids took a bath to get ready for Sunday. Once they were all clean and in their jammies, we headed home to Livingston.

Thanks, Posties, for all the fun! It was so fun to see you, Mike!