Yeah, so the title isn’t as catchy as ‘a week in the life’, but I’m just that far behind! 
This is mostly going to be a photos-with-captions sort of entry, so if you don’t think my kids are the cutest thing you’ve ever seen, you may want to move on to the next blog on your reading list right now. My apologies for the lack of photo editing; but if I didn’t post these as is they were never going to get posted.
And in case anyone reads my blog just for the sewing, I actually have sewn quite a few things (mostly Ottobre of course) in May. I just haven’t taken pictures. Among other things, I’m up to three needed new short sleeve tops for me; but I’m usually on the back side of the camera. Yesterday I made lost boy #2 some desperately needed pj’s, but nine is getting a little old to be posing in jammies, especially since I used the long john patterns from Ottobre 4/2004 (shortened for summer). I used some well-aged dino PRR from my stash; I personally don’t think the PRR jersey is very soft, but he’s happy and he’s the one sleeping in them. . .
Alright, on to the pictures! Two weeks ago, Dad & Mom came for the week. We took in soccer games:
And took them to Yellowstone. Actually, first we stopped at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody.
Then to Yellowstone. . .I love the drive through Shoshone National Forest. We stopped more than once to take pictures of the bighorn sheep and the buffalo.
We stayed at Pahaska, right outside the east entrance (thanks Aunt Janet!).
We’re going on a bear hunt. . .! We saw 4 bears during our day at Yellowstone, a young male in the morning and then a mama with twin toddler-cubs in the afternoon.
I enjoyed the West Thumb geyser basin.
Naturally, we watched for Old Faithful to erupt.
And then it was time to head back home. We spent the rest of Dad & Mom’s visit doing normal stuff around the house and around town, the kind of stuff that doesn’t always get photographed.
After they went home, I stitched up Mystery Quilt block #4; yum!
And I put the kids back to work on their school; here’s lost boy #3 deep in mathematical thought:
After several days of warm, even hot, weather, last Thursday brought an all day snow that made me feel as down as my lilacs looked.
Any guesses what book I’m introducing to our littlest lost boy? It’s definitely a family favorite; boy #4 is acting it out for him!
Yesterday I enjoyed a visit from my friend JoAnn and her daughter Karen, who will be moving to Wyoming later this summer for her first teaching job. I hadn’t seen JoAnn since lost boy #3 was a couple months old, so that was a pleasant if brief treat!
And finally, today my baby is 8 months old (sniff). I don’t know that I got his 7 month picture posted even though I did take one; having a baby isn’t nearly as much fun when you have big kids keeping you on your toes all day long! The days slip by much faster than they should. . .
