May Long Family Vacation!

We haven't got to go on a whole lot of trips with the family this year, because of Scarlett being too young and difficult for one thing, and also Lee's work has made it hard to get away.  But it has sure been nice to at least get away as a family for a few days down to Montana!  We made the trip again for May long weekend, and it was a lot of fun!  We brought the quads, which the kids all LOVE to ride!  Mason and Dakota are pretty fearless on them, and Griffin usually starts out pretty fearless, but due to a little bit of lack of control, he inevitably crashes into something and loses a bit of confidence - which is probably a good thing!  He has definitely improved this year though over last - last year he somehow drove through a mass of trees, over some lawn chairs, and into the fire pit!!  Thank goodness there was no fire going!  We were pretty surprised that he managed to do that though.  He also loves to ride on the big quad with Mom or Dad.  We even took Scarlett on for short little rides, and she was one happy girl!  She absolutely LOVES to be outside, so the whole weekend, she was seriously a sweetheart and just happy to be part of the action!  Lee also took the kids "worm hunting" and then fishing for a bit - unfortunately unsuccessfully, but they still had fun trying!  We had fun hot tubbing, exploring, playing some games outside, and also sitting around the campfire!  The kids loved roasting hot dogs and making Smores.  If you notice in some of the campfire pictures, the kids are wearing life jackets.... no, that is not because we are some crazy over the top parents who think life jackets will keep them safe from fire, but simply because they just finished fishing on the paddleboat and forgot to take them off!  Looks kinda funny though!  We also went to feed the ducks after church, which turned out to be a real hit for the kids - especially Griffin, he didn't stop talking about it!  Some of these ducks are bigger than I have ever seen, and will bite you, but that didn't stop Dakota from getting right up close and letting them eat out of her hands and get nibbled on a bit!  She thought it was hilarious.  My boys are not quite so brave, but they loved chasing them and trying to get them to eat their bread.  Griffin jumped up and down cheering every time his bread got eaten!

Anyway, we had a really great time just being together and away from everything, (especially Lee's work!) It's so fun to just focus on the kids and doing whatever you feel like!  We really need to take family trips more often!