Well, hello my long lost blog...how've you been?! I've missed you...and apparently, so has my family! We just returned from a vacation to the Black Hills, during which my Baby Girl said, "Mama, you should blog again." How the heck can I deny that?! ;) While I'm getting warmed up with my blogging skills again, let's start with a couple of pictures from our vacation. (Oh! And, I Instagrammed a bunch of pics also, with the hashtag #blackhillssecondedition, if you wanna check it out!) Here we are, all packed up and about to take off...we JUST missed a big thunderstorm, which (thankfully) held off so kindly until we had finished packing and were pulling out of the driveway! We did the quarter trick again this time (see details here ) and I love that one of my boys snapped this picture with my iPad from the back seat. This was the temperature when we reached the Badlands. Good golly...let me tell you that when the temperature reaches this and there is no wind...