Who says you only wear your Wedding Dress once?

Well whoever said that was sooo wrong! One of the things that I was looking forward to doing when I got to Montana was trying on my wedding dress. Its part of my weight loss goals. Well my sister Samurai Mom also wanted to put hers on. My little sister, who is engaged, obviously didn't have one yet, so instead she put on her old prom dress. The other 2 girls in the family either didn't have theirs there or didn't have one yet. Next year we will do this again only we will do our hair and makeup. Hopefully we will also have all 5 of us girls in our wedding dresses!

The Zip Line

We went Zip lining! It was so much fun. They only down side to this was that it was raining and when it wasn't raining it was windy. So we were wet and cold about the whole time. On the last line down we were all saying how our fingers were numb. But it was fun just the same.

Here we are getting ready.... Some of us needed more help than others!

Here we are all excited and ready to go.

This was like the "Bunny Hill" of zip lines. You were not that high off the ground and it wasn't very long so you didn't go too fast. So no one was too nervous.

This is a picture of the second line we went on. BIG jump from the Bunny Line! By this line it was raining.

This is me way back there! (If you click on the picture you might be able to actually see me) I was going so fast and I was too scared to let go to do the starfish to slow down. You have to put your arms and legs out to the sides. I could only do the legs cause I was to scared to let go. Oh and I SCREAMED the whole way down!

Here I am safely at the bottom. The rain was pelting my face on the way down. They said that I came in super fast. They were all saying that I was a speed demon. I just said, "Nope just too scared to let go!" Everyone over 200lbs was required to wear a little parachute so that they wouldn't get going too fast. After this one I was like, "I think I need a parachute" They told me that this was probably the fastest one, so I didn't end up getting one.

They made us show them the landing position every time we were hooked up to the line. Here is Mrs. Moss on her trip down line 2, doing an excellent landing position. Some people were crazy and would wait until the last second to tuck! I was always tucking early. Better early than not at all I think.

Here we all are at the top of line 3. All of us that is except for the 2 (you know who you are) that were too chicken to go.


Big J and I looking on line 2. Waiting for line 3.

First Moss Family Reunion

Well this was the first moss reunion. It was a lot of fun too! On the first day we went up to Mr. Moss' cabin in the woods and stayed over night.

While there we did a little bit of wood chopping so that we could have some fire wood.

Grandpa Boss Moss cooked us a great dinner made in dutch ovens by the camp fire. (All I need to say is that If we ever have to live without electricity I want to live wherever he is.) After dinner we sat around the campfire and made "smoles" as Little Eddy would say, and told stories. Grandpa told us the story about Carl Raff and how many many years ago he buried all his money up in those hills, then died unexpectedly. The next morning the children helped uncover the clues that good old Carl Raff left leading to his treasure!

Here they are ready to go treasure hunting. They all split the money they found of course. The rest of the morning on the second day was spent shooting guns, riding the six wheeler.

This is me after my first turn with the gun. Jeremy then felt that a gun safety lesson was in order. Here he is schooling Samurai Mom.

Here we are after our lesson. Feeling "Angel"ish.

Then quickly packing up in order to make it to the Big Mountain in time for ...... THIS!!! See next post.

Ingredients for the Earth

Often times the kids start their stories with "When I was a baby...." or "When I was little....". This story was no different. As we were driving up to the cabin for the first day of our reunion Little D says, " When I was little I didn't know how the Earth was made. But now that I am bigger I know the ingredients."
I said, "Oh yea? What are they?"
He said, "They are grass, roads, trees, clouds, bushes, and signs...."
He went on to list everything that he saw out of the car window. I guess it takes a trip to the mountains in Montana to know the "ingredients" of the Earth.

This Post is a Little Late....

Its a little late but with good reason. I couldn't post the craft that I made for Mother's day gifts if I hadn't given them to my Mother's yet. I wanted to not spend a billion dollars on shipping and decided to hand deliver them after we arrived in MT. I made these for mine and Big J's mom. They were super easy to make. The hardest part was picking the font and size. But I think that they turned out good. Its a little hard to see the larger one but it also says MOM. They can be used as vases or they can also be used to hold some decorative rocks and a candle or somthing. Thanks to Kathy and Selena for letting me use their stuff.

A little Conversation...

This is a little conversation that the Kids and I had in the car yesterday;

Little D: "Hey, Mom. Would it be sad if you didn't have any babies?"

Mom: "Yes, that would be very sad."

Little A: "But you do have babies?"

Mom: "Yes, I do. I have 3 babies."

Little A: "So you're berry happy."

Mom: "Yes, Little A, I am very happy."

Road Trip

Well my plans for leaving at 4 failed miserably. I was however up at 3:45 am on Saturday morning. I showered and got dressed. Big J was still not out of bed so I decided to load the car. Once I was done with that Big J finally came out and we were almost ready when he decided that he needed to get pictures off the computer and put them on a USB drive to take to his family. So by the time everyone was in the car it was 5:30 am. Then the car wouldn't start! We didn't have Big J's work truck at the house either. Luckily we have a battery charger. So we waited for the battery to charge enough. We didn't leave Bakersfield until 6 am.

It seemed like the closer we got to SLC that first day the slower Big J was going. I was about to scream! But not wanting to start another argument I resisted the urge.

The rest of the trip was OK. Minus stopping just about every hour to change Little C's diaper, I don't know what his problem was but I'm glad we are finally here so that we don't have to drive anymore.

Big Sky Country

School is out and swimming lessons are over (for now) so.... We're off to the Big Sky Country! Its the best time of year when we get to go to Montana. The only down side is that we have to drive and it takes us 2 days to get there. We never seem to get there fast enough. But we get to go, non the less, so I am grateful.

Today was spent washing and packing clothes, cleaning the house, packing the car and convincing Big J that we really need to leave at 4 am. I told him that we have to try it at least once and if it didn't work out we could go back to "his way" which is getting out the door if we are lucky by 9am. Its funny because you would think that any sane person would want to opt for the later time but I was raised to have everything packed in the car the night before so that all you had to do was throw the kids in the car and go.

Above is a picture of my brother Mr. Moss and the view from the "hike" they took last time we were in Montana. I say "Hike" because it was more like rock climbing than hiking. Below is a picture of the steep cliff they climbed to get that picture.


Yep that part on the right is what they climbed. At first Big J thought that Mr. Moss was joking about climbing it. But my brother is a little bit of crazy! Big J says that he just about died trying to get up that. I told him that he should be in better shape when he is to go "hiking" with Mr. Moss.