Memoral Day Weekend

Every Memorial Day weekend, Neil's family heads to Terry, MT to go camping and fishing on the Yellowstone River. It is absolutely beautiful there, it is quiet, laid back and relaxing. It was a little different this year as none of the older generation were camping. Neil's dad is hunting in Argentina, his mom was on call and his other two uncles and an aunt came on Saturday for the day.

Cruising on the 4 wheeler with dad

 Kynlie got to go on a 4 wheeler ride with Neil when we went to check set lines, she thought it was pretty cool and didn't even mind wearing her helmet. She liked the fish and wanted  to feel them, which honestly kind of grossed me out, but, I let her do it!

Walking through the wood for the fire

Kynlie LOVED camping, minus the campfire smoke. Her nose is still runny and her eyes are pretty puffy. She would take anyone's finger that would take her walking and walk all over the place. Her balance amazed me as she was walking through the tall grass, over rocks and over the wood that we had gathered for the fire. It was chilly out Saturday but she wanted to be outside as much as she could.

Eating S'mores

 Aunt Connie shared her s'more with Kynlie and she got a little marshmallow all over her face. It was a great weekend considering the weather, it was windy and cool Saturday and rained all afternoon on Sunday, then through Monday. It amazes me that this family won't let a little weather stop them from enjoying their weekend. The guys played frisbee golf in the rain, the kids drove the 4 wheelers all over, then they would stop by the campfire to warm up for a couple minutes.

Some of the crew checking set lines.
l-r: Bruce, Ben, Connie, Darren, Brandon, Dustin and Neil

Sunday evening we fried the fish we had caught for supper, which was delicious and played a few games of cards. We packed up camp on Monday and headed home.

No matter how fun camping is, it is always so nice to be home, take a looooooooong hot shower and sleep in your comfy bed.

I promise I will be better about posting more often, it has just been so rainy and cold here that we have not done ANYTHING. Next weekend Kynlie and I are headed to Dayton, WY for a celebratory BBQ for my brother getting a job teaching at the Wyoming Girl's School in Sheridan. We are all very excited for Jordan and Ashley that he got the job as they were really hoping something would come up for him down there because they love the area. There hadn't been many jobs open up anywhere where both of them could teach in the same area.

May

Wow, I have really been slacking on the blog posts. To be honest, I have hardly taken any pictures the month of May- oops! We had a very relaxing Mother's Day last weekend, we just visited both of our mothers for a bit then came home to do some yardwork.

Kynlie has only been able to play on her new swingset a handfull of times due to all the rain we have been getting but we added a little something to it yesterday that I think she is going to enjoy. What little girl's playset is complete without bright pink sand? We are a few bags short but we will pick it up next time we are out of town, how fun is the colored sand!

Kynlie's swingset- complete with a pink sandbox.

Wednesday we headed to Bismarck for Neil and Kynlie's eye appointments. Neil had got a reminder in the mail from my eye doctor that he was due for a checkup and we decided that he would just go to Bismarck to Kynlie's eye doctor for his exam. His eyes have hardly changed at all.

Kynlie's appointment went good, Dr Samson now wants us to patch her right eye two days, then her left eye one day. He said her right eye is looking a lot straighter and that patching her right eye more will strengthen the left eye a little more. He also said that we could go 30 minutes when we are patching.

Kynlie cuddling with her kangaroo.

When Kynlie was still in the NICU, one of my cousins was following the caringbridge site and remembered me talking about the kangaroo care. She found this kangaroo puppet book it reads

"You know what makes me happy as can be,
just being together, mommy and me
Together makes me bounce with glee
because anyone can see, my mommy loves me!"

It was perfect for Kynlie! Wednesday I went in to check on Kynlie when she was taking a nap and she had got her book from her toy pouch that is hanging on the end of her crib and had her arm wrapped around the kangaroo! It was too cute!

March for Babies

I want to thank everyone that has donated to our March for Babies team. It is a cause that is very close to my heart as they are a lot of the reason we have Kynlie with us today- along with the amazing medical team at Medcenter One's NICU, who we will be walking with in Bismarck on May 14.

I am asking, if you have not already donated, to support a great cause. Donations are tax deductible and truly do save lives.

You can donate by clicking on the link below- thanks again

Team Kynlie and Kirsten Moore

Kynlie- 1 month old, 1 lb 12 oz.

Road Trip

Sunday afternoon, Kynlie and I hit the road with Neil's sister Connie. She had to do a little shopping for her store and Kynlie and I were her company! Luckily we had good roads because we had quite the blizzard come through on Friday and Saturday.

My sister and brother-in-law and their boys came over as Ken had some work to do in town so we got to hang out with them a little too.

Monday was a long day of shopping, but Kynlie did excellent, considering she had very little sleep, but the poor girl was crashed in her car seat before we even were on the interstate leaving Billings.

Today we are getting caught up on sleep, doing laundry and some spring cleaning.

Cousins in the shopping cart!

Kynlie is continuing to do new things every day. I can't even count all the words she says, but I was very impressed with her manners in Billings. A lady walked in front of us at World Market and said excuse me and Kynlie looked at her and said "cue me!" She is saying please (sign language) and thank you (verbal) without having to be reminded and knows when she needs to say them, it just makes me so proud!

She still isn't walking but we're working on it and she is now in size 2 diapers!!!  I know that seems irrelavent, but the girl has been in size one diapers FOREVER!