Adams Grandparents

We love when my grandparents pass through Helena on there way to/from Yuma, AZ. They stopped this past week, and instead of just chatting with them in their motorhome, they wanted to come see our house. So we picked them up and brought them over. Grandma surprised the boys with adorable stuffed animals--a duck and a frog. Also, she brought Parker some flashcards. These pictures are from her going through them with him. I was surprised at how long he sat there and did it. They were working on same vs. different. Haha, Parker didn't really get the concept. The video pretty much describes my grandparents...haha. We love having them here. Thanks grandma and grandpa. We sure love you!

Gold Nuggets!

Lately, we have been into watching Gold Rush on Netflix. Parker always says, "Daddy, do you want to watch gold nuggets with me?" So the other day we decided to take a little drive and look for some gold :-)  Ty went online and found that there were some gold areas slightly close to Helena. We drove towards Townsend and hit up Confederate Gulch. There were even still some old machinery and equipment still up there! They had no trespassing signs up, but I just had to trespass and get a picture of (what we thought were) the old shakers.

It was crazy seeing all the piles of rock everywhere that they were looking for gold. Kinda dorky, but it made us feel like we were experiencing the "gold rush"...haha.

Well, we found a place that looked promising, and Ty hopped out to fill our buckets with dirt--to go home and pan. Don't worry, he wasn't trespassing. I'm the only rebel in this relationship ;-)

My good-lookin' miners!

Parker kept asking if he had seen any gold nuggets yet. :-)

Then I just started trying to get some artsy shots. Maybe I will enter some in the fair :-)

We figured this was probably some early miners cabin. Pretty cool.

On the way home the boys were super cute. Parker said, "look mommy! We're holding hands!" This is what I turned around to see :-)

Parkman--my ninja

We brought 3 or 4 buckets of dirt home. We shall see when Ty gets off work if we found any gold nuggets or not :-)

Montana WILD

A while back we were told about an educational place on the west side of town. We decided to go check it out. It's a part of Fish, Wildlife & Parks. It was free to the public and has all kinds of taxidermy inside, big fish tanks, and videos. It also had a kids area that had stuffed animals and real wildlife legs, feet, and horns that the kids could pick up and hold. Parker especially loved that part :)

 

Dez could going back to the fish tank. He loved being able to get right up to the tank and watch the fish. He especially loved giving the fish kisses :-)

It was a lot of fun! We'll have to go back when the bears aren't hibernating any more. Supposedly they have a couple there to see!

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Photographer

Parker has figured out that he can take pictures with my phone. Here are some of his masterpieces... ;-)

He even told me how to pose for this one :-)

I sure love my little man!