Category Archives: Family Fun

Saving money with home hair cuts (or why sundays is my least favorite day)

Posted on December 8, 2013 by alanamarie26

Wahl Clippers I usually don’t tell people I cut my husbands hair. If I happen to give him a bad cut I don’t want people to know it was me. And after 6 years of cutting his hair, it happens … Continue reading →

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Glacier National Park Part 2

Posted on September 15, 2013 by alanamarie26

And Now I bring you part two of our trip. We start where we left off in my last post. We had just finished with Many Glacier and we were headed to St. Mary. Entering on the East side of … Continue reading →

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Glacier National Park (part 1)

Posted on September 10, 2013 by alanamarie26

For the first time since our Honeymoon in 2006 Paul and I went on a real overnight vacation. We’ve had lots of stay-cations and day-cations, we’ve road-tripped for work and to see family. But we’ve never had our own trip … Continue reading →

Posted in family, Family Fun, Montana, Nature, outdoors, Road Trip, Vacation | 3 Comments

Ringing Rocks

Posted on August 31, 2013 by alanamarie26

Once upon a time I picked up a silly book about oddities in Montana, Montana Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff. Fun little book, with all kinds of silly, neat places to visit. One of the fun things … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Butte, Family Fun, Montana, Road Trip, travel. | 2 Comments

My Town Monday Link Up

Posted on July 14, 2013 by alanamarie26

My Town Monday Link-up,Nothing Fancy, just share a post about where you live.I started this because I am not too fond of where we are living in Montana, it’s a very nice place to visit, I just don’t want to … Continue reading →

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Challis 2013

Posted on July 5, 2013 by alanamarie26

If you want you can read about our previous years (Challis 2011) and (Challis 2012). This was our third, and last year at Challis. Challis is an annual camping trip that “Recruiting Station Salt Lake” (who Paul works under) has … Continue reading →

Posted in Camping, Family Fun, fun, Marines, Recruiting Duty, Vacation | 2 Comments

camping with baby

Posted on July 4, 2013 by alanamarie26

When I learned that we would be camping for 5 days with a 6 month old I almost didn’t go. I wanted to bail and let my husband go on his own. But what kind of wife would I be … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby E, Baby Products, babywearing, Camping, Evelyn, Family Fun | 2 Comments

Happy Fathers Day!!

Posted on June 16, 2013 by alanamarie26

Evelyn would like to wish you and your family a Happy Fathers Day.  With a special shout out to all the first time daddies. – Alana

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On the move!

Posted on January 14, 2013 by alanamarie26

Well we lost the house that we had found, the one that was perfect. But we finally got funding to move so we spent last week on the house hunt again, and we found one. It’s small, smaller than we … Continue reading →

Posted in Butte, Family Fun, Helena, Marines, Military, moving, PCSing | 1 Comment

Family Fun

Posted on December 26, 2012 by alanamarie26

Before Evelyn was born my family was in town. In fact they were in town just for her, but she decided to be a week late and arrived a mere 24ish hours before my sister had to go to the … Continue reading →

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