Hanging out with Great Grandpa

These are some pictures of Austin with his Great Grandpa Stoddard. He has lots of fun going to visit his Great Grandma and Grandpa.

Date Night

Chris and I had a date night on Friday and we thought you'd like to hear a few of the things that happend in the ridiculous city of Butte, MT.

We had bought tickets online to go to a movie. We drove an hour there and when we get to the theater we find out that they had cancelled the showing that we had bought tickets for. They let us exchange them for a different movie but it didn't start for an hour. So we walk up to one of the workers and I say, "Are you seating for this show yet?" and show him our tickets. He looks at us with this blank stare and proceeds to say, "Ummmm we don't seat you...You have to seat yourself". So while trying to keep a straight face I ask him if the door is open yet. It was. We made sure to seat ourselves. :)

We had not eaten dinner yet, so after the movie we decided to go through the Wendy's drive through. This is what we ordered:

2 Large Cokes
2 Jr Bacon Cheeseburgers
2 of 5 piece chicken nuggets

We get to the first window to pay and the following dialogue takes place, "
WENDY'S WORKER: "$18.79 please".
CHRIS: "I don't think that is our order"
WENDY'S WORKER: "Did you have 2 Large cokes, 2 jr bacon cheeseburgers and 2 -5 piece nuggets?"
CHRIS: "Yes"
WENDY'S WORKER: "$18.79 then".
SHELLY: "Thats impossible"
WENDY'S WORKER: "Things have gone up a bit"
CHRIS: "We had 2 jr bacon cheeseburgers @ $1 each, 2 - 5 piece nuggets @ $1.29 each, so unless our drinks are over $6 a piece it cannot be $18.79"
WENDYS WORKER: "Thats what it says"
SHELLY: "Can we talk to a manager?"
MANAGER: "Did you have 2 Lg Cokes, 2 jr bacon cheeseburgers and 2- 5 piece nuggets?"
CHRIS: "yes"
MANAGER: "That will be $8.14 please"
SHELLY: "thank you!"

We were really grateful that the manager could add.

We started driving home joking about there being something in the Butte drinking water and how we should have asked for no ice in our drinks. About 10 miles out of Butte we're driving in the left lane and Chris sees lights coming straight at us. He moves into the right lane and sure enough some idiot passes us going north on the southbound side of I-15.

I think the favorite part of the night was the comment "Things have gone up a bit". Chris and I keep saying it and laughing. It was a crazy night but it was lots of fun!

West Yellowstone

This weekend we took a little trip to West Yellowstone. Austin had a blast swimming and on Saturday we took him to see the Bear/Wolf Exhibit. He had fun watching the bears but the highlight of the trip was all the snow. Austin loved playing in the snow! There was at least 3 feet of it. Chris and I decided we're going to come by ourselves one weekend, rent snowmobiles and go through the park. Here are some pictures:

Weekend Trip

This weekend we went to Billings so Chris and I could go to the temple for our Stake Temple day. We stayed at the Cmon Inn and I just have to say it is my favorite hotel ever! It is clean, nice, and it has a regular pool, a baby pool, and about 8 different hot tubs all scattered around an indoor waterfull and fish pond. Austin had so much fun! He swam in the big pool and waded in the baby pool. He loved the fish pond also! Saturday morning my mom watched Austin while Chris and I went to the temple. That afternoon we did some shopping and drove home. Below is a picture of austin swimming, the hotel and of the Billings Temple.

Vaseline Boy

So yesterday I was busy doing some things and Austin was watching a cartoon in his chair...or so I thought. I only left the room for maybe 10 minutes and he comes walking out with Vaseline all over him from head to toe. It was in his hair, ALL over the front of his clothes, and his arms and hands looked slippery. I said, "AUSTIN! WHAT DID YOU DO?!!!" and he started to laugh! I had left a container of it on our dresser (which he couldn't reach until today). In 10 minutes he had somehow found the time to get it down, open it and lather himself. I picked him up so he wouldn't touch anything and guess where his vaseline covered hands went....right in my hair. Then I took a look at the carpet where he had wiped his hands trying to get the vaseline off. Does anyone know how to get Vaseline out of carpet? I took all of his clothes off and stuck him in the tub. The clothes later ended up in the trash can because there was no way all of that vaseline was coming out. I washed his hair 6 times. Twice with his shampoo, Twice with my deep cleansing shampoo, and twice with DAWN dishsoap. His hair was still greasy. I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to clean up the vaseline out of the carpet then researching on the internet how to get Vaseline out of hair. Just a little FYI there are many different methods: baby oil, eggs, peanut butter, and coca cola. I decided an a milder one of glycerine soap so when Chris got home from work off we went to get the supplies. Glycerine soap does not work. So after 3 washes with the glycerine soap Austin got a bottle of Coke dumped over his head. It was at this point that he stood up in the tub and said "Done ma...Done". Amazingly the coke took most of the vaseline out of his hair. I washed it one more time with DAWN and then again with his baby shampoo it and seems to be back to normal. I'm a little worried about his scalp being irritated but so far it hasn't seemed to bother him. I used my moms steamvac carpet cleaner and it looks like most of it has come up but if anyone has any good suggestions let me know!
Sorry there are no pictures...Our hands were a little to greasy!!

Only in Montana

We woke up to this beautiful fellow in the yard this morning. Thats right a bull moose decided to stop by for a visit. He wandered around for a while and then bedded down in the willows by the pond near the house. It was fun to watch him. A bunch of the neighbors had driven down to our house to take a look also. Here are some pics:

Happy New Year!

This year for new years we went out to Uncle Seth and Aunt Pams and celebrated with their family and the missionaries. The missionaries have to be either in their apartment or with a members family by 6pm on New Years so it was fun to have them come celebrate...at least until 9pm :). Aunt Pam made her yummy clam chowder and rolls and we played Yahtzee and toasted in the New Year with Martinelli's sparkling cider at 8:45 pm before the missionaries had to leave :). I have not played Yahtzee since I was a little kid and we had a blast. Especially Austin. He thought it was so much fun to throw the dice out of the cup. He had a blast with his cousins. We had so much fun that Chris and I went and bought a Yahtzee game the next day and played with my parents for hours. I am the ultimate Yahtzee champion with a score of 485 on New Years day. I got 4 yahtzees in one game. I think I will save the score card and frame it. j/k. Below are some pictures from New Years.

Austin Toasting with Aunt Pam

Austin playing Yahtzee with Whitney

Austin with Elder Snyder and Elder Blatter

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