Life Lately in Pictures

My handsome boys got their hair cut last week. They love it! We usually just get it done once

a year. Harley gets hot really easily, so he looooves having his short hair.

The garden got tilled.....

It got warm! FINALLY!!! And of course I was blasting the air conditioning because I'm not

used to the warm weather yet.

I got a shoulder holster for my gun for Christmas from my parents. I mainly wanted it so

I could bring my gun with my when I run by myself down our county road. It normally hooks

onto a belt that you wear with jeans, but since I had on jogging pants I just wore a normal belt

around my waist. It worked just fine! I only had to scare off 1 person on my run that day :) Kidding :)

By the way, fun fact: Montana is an open carry state. So to wear my firearm like this, exposed, 

I would not need a concealed weapon permit. Now if I wore a sweatshirt over this, that 

would be considered concealed.

My sleepy little Harley after a long couple of days on the farm.

Ahhhh, this never gets old :)

What I've Been Up To

So....the question is...what the hell was I doing for two months that I wasn't blogging? The rest of this week will be kind of an update on my life.

Here's one of the answers: Spent time with my sweet, oh-so-precious niece! A whole FOUR weeks I got to spend with her!!

Painting her toes. We only got one foot done before she got bored.

Before surgery on her eyes. Both of them were lazy because the eye muscles didn't develop at the same rate. But never fear, they're all good now!

Queen of the mountain of presents...most of them were for her.

We spent some time sledding (her hat is a skunk!)

And making lots of animal noises. This is the fishy face!

Basically, I pretty much love her to death, and couldn't have loved my time with her any more! I also worked out a lot, read A LOT, and spent some much-needed time catching up with friends and family over the phone and emails. Oh, and I guess Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years were in there too.

Went shooting with my dad and brother. Not gonna lie, this gun is bad ass. And for all you gun haters out there, here is a perfectly good example of someone using an assault rifle responsibly. If you've ever shot one, you'd probably realize how AWESOME it is :)

We got new carpet in some of our bedrooms which you can see here:

So needless to say...I've been busy!

Oh, and before I forget, follow me on Instagram: mtprairieprincess

Last Weekend

I already had yesterday and Monday's post done last week, so I'm sharing my weekend with you today! Patrick has been working hauling sugar beets for their harvest season, which includes working evenings and nights. He had a little extra time on Saturday before work, so we decided to take out our guns and do a little shooting.

Patrick said, "Why do you always have to take pictures?!" My exact response was, "For my blog! The people have spoken, and they need pictures!"

 Lots of hills and rough "roads"

This was my attempt at trying to be creative.

Looking out on our family's land and our neighbor's land. The little thing in the bottom right of the picture is a water tank for when our cows are in this field. 

And then we came upon a herd of antelope. The particular pickup we were in doesn't have a muffler at all, so it's VERY loud. As soon as we came over the hill, they took off running. Patrick proceeded to chase them in the pickup through the field. It was pretty scary, but FUN! hahaha

These suckers can run FAST!

Shooting the BIG gun.

Shooting my "concealed" gun, the Ruger SR-9 9millimeter. It's not so concealed when I wear it. 

But it shoots like a champ!

That's all friends, happy hump day!