Library 6/5 and My Book System

     I haven't been doing great in the remebering to take pictures before going to the library area... but one week I remembered! Lol! Here are the books from a few weeks ago.

There were a few of the random choice books this week, they were all pretty good, nothing super exciting in their eyes anyway. The favorite book was actually from this last week, and I forgot to get a picture so I went with my buddy Google, and found one!

This is a book about a little boy who has too many toys (much like my kids)... and his mom finally has had enough (again... a little close to reality here...) so she tells him he has too many toys and needs to get rid of some. So of course a toy negotiation starts happening and eventually some toys are sorted out and put in a box. In the end, Mom goes to get the box, toys are everywhere, and we find out what we've always known... kids would rather play with a box! Super cute book, and we all liked it.

Now, you may wonder how in the world I manage to get the books back on time and not have a billion dollars in library fees. Well, part of it is my "OCD" that doesn't allow things like this to happen... so I set up a handy dandy system! The boys have a book shelf that has four shelves. I've divided it up into certain shelves for certain books. The top shelf is "my books" or the books I picked out for them to read (sometimes it's overflow from their shelf too, but mostly my choices). The second shelf is "their books" or the books that they picked out from the library; mostly Scooby Doo and Superhero books are found here. Finally the third shelf (4th shelf is just our books), is the "books that have to go back this week" shelf. Our library lets us check out books for 3 weeks at a time, so by the third week, there are certain books that need to be read so they can go back. Every Friday when we go to the library, when we get home, I check the list on our account on the library's website to see which books have to go back next week.  I take those out of the top two shelves, stick them in the newly emptied 3rd shelf, and then refill the other two with the new books. Make sense? Who knows. Honestly you just deserve a high five for reading all that... so I'll stop now. Lol! If anybody want's anymore information on my system, just let me know. :-)

St. Mary's Glacier Hike!

     We wanted to go on a fun new hike, and we've been wanting to check out St. Mary's Glacier, but figured we should wait until it got warmer so it wasn't a slip-n-slide instead of a hike. The trail is about 3/4 of a mile... and it isn't just an easy walking trail. This is an uphill, rock filled trail. Half way up was all dirt with some snow along the sides of the trail... but then suddenly the whole trail was snow! We still made our way up... and the view was beautiful! We had a ton of fun going up... but once we got up there Wyatt was suddenly very cold, very tired, and his head was super hot! Nothing like a fever showing up in the middle of your fun. We ended up giving him a piggyback ride down the trail, and headed home to rest, and a few days later he was fine. Definitely a lot of fun while we were there though! We all even went down a "snow slide" that we found along the trail. 3 of us only went once... but Wade ended up going 6 or 7 times he was having so much fun. :-) Here are some pictures of course. The pictures at the beginning show the trail when we started and the snow slide. The last pictures show the buffalo that we saw on the way to the trail! We've been looking for those buffalo on that road for over a year now!