While my sisters, brother-in-laws, niece, and nephews were here in Montana we went to a circus here in our little town of Polson. I was pretty impressed by the acts, animals and production they put on. We got to see a zebra, snake, hippo, llamas, elephants, ponies, clowns, dancers, acrobats and a contortionist.
Enjoy the photos!!
Here is the first half (hopefully) of the picture blog of my family (Mom, dad, brother and Grandpa Joe) visiting Ashanna’s House in Montana!
Enjoy!
One of the things we did was go to the local Museum:
AshAnna seeing who’s Bicep is bigger.
The Boys on a Teeter-Totter
This week we had the largest attended grubclub yet! We had over 25 people there!
We also hit the Flathead lake:
We visited Lee Kessler in Eureka:
And then went to a RODEO!!!
Look at all those shoes collected by the Lost and Found!
Just Kidding:
My parents should be sending me their pictures, and then I’ll have another update!
On this day, the Sanders Family + Grampa Joe went Rafting with Flathead Raft Co. It was the most fun we’ve ever had on a river, and Grampa Joe cannot stop talking about it (even months after). I’ll let the pictures do the talking:
Talk about crazy fun. Everyone was smiling and laughing afterwards. At least half of the boat was very worried/scared about flipping, but in hind-sight are very happy that we did. It was a blast.
-AshtonAnna
This story starts on Thursday the 10th of July, but first a little background:
We live on a 20 acer parcel of land, and since we are so far away from the “city” of Polson, we can’t get “city water.” (Thank Goodness!) We have our own well. The well is 280 feet straight down and produces 7 gallons of delicious water a minute.
Back to the story:
On the 9th of July, Anna spent a lot of time watering the yard getting ready for Ash’s family to arrive starting on the 17th. There was probably at least one hose on all day long.
On the 10th of July, (exactly one month since the snow) we were just starting our weekly Grub Club and water stopped coming out of our faucet… What?! About 30 minutes later, it came back on but was kind of dirty, with small flecks of dirt.
No!!! We only have 7 days to get the entire property ready for family to arrive, we don’t have time to get another well dug!
To make a long story short: After talking to many pump experts, neighbors and studying as much as I could get my hands on over the next three days, I found that there was a small electrical problem with the control box! Whew! After and hour of driving and $12, I had the well pump running again smoothly!
Ash just Databased the Mainframe!
Wasup?!
-Ashanna
Round 2…
Fight!
Mocha was sitting on my desk looking out the window as she normally does every day. It was still nice and cool outside, so I opened the window so Mocha could stick her head out… The second the window opened: Mocha jumped out of it, landed 10 feet down, sprinted 20 feet into the bushes and a second later came out with a snake:
As you can see the snake was about as long as Mocha is! 
Then she took the snake under our porch to play with it.
After I took that last picture, I brought Mocha inside so the snake could return to it’s life in the hopes of getting large enough to help Mocha and Rosco in the quest to remove all gophers from our land.
And since I’m posting about Mocha, here are some picture of Mocha being adorable:
Hahaha, what a spoiled cat.
-AshAnna