Family Fun

We had a great time at home. I say home, because Idaho will always be my home. Some of the young women in our ward got mad at me when I told them, "we went home to visit" They said back to me, THIS is your home. Sorry girls it just isn't true. Anyway, we miss everyone and want to thank all of you helped out with the girls. It was great! I'm sometimes really bad at not grabbing my camera, and other times I'm taking too many pics. So sorry if I didn't get some of you in my pictures. (mom and dad) The first half of our vacation was spent with my family. We were busy everyday. One day was at Bear Lake, then golfing the next, and of course we had to see Harry Potter with my sisters. Oh yeah, and one day my very talented sister, Cordie took pics of our girls. Aren't they great? Thanks Cord! We had a great time!!

The second half we spent with Jeff's family camping at Stanley, Idaho. Where the Sawtooth Mountains are. It is sooooo gorgeous! Like I said earlier about the camera thing, I didn't get any pics of the mountains or when we went to Red Fish Lake. I know, I know my bad. Sometimes you want to just enjoy yourselves and not worry about a camera, but mostly I just forgot! Then on our way home, Jeff's grandparents, aunt, cousin, and parents came with us to spend 5 days here. Wondering about the elk antlers on our van??? That is the elk Jeff got last year, and his brother did a European mount for his b-day. This was the only way to bring them back with us. Attached to our bike rack. Yep, we got sooo many stares and pointed fingers at us. It was so funny. Ahhh memories!

Orange Balloons

They love balloons! In the video you can hear Gracie saying "sister" and then Madi saying "thank you" They can say quite a few words, but still talk mumble jumble too. I love it!

There won't be a post for a while because we are heading home to Idaho. We start the dreadful drive this afternoon. Won't be back until the 20th. See ya later!

Our 4th of July

The gang

Gracie's kimono

Kortney and Madi
Mommy and Gracie's "CHEESE" smile

Madilynn cooling off Gracie throwing rocks

Gracie, Madi, and Daddy
Madi and Daddy

First, we hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend. We got an invite to go camping this year and on Thursday we decided we wanted to to go and see how the girls would do. So all of Thurs we got ready and did all the shopping. Friday we drove about an hour and a half to the campsite. It was so hot when we arrived. We set up our tent and went to find our friends who were at the river swimming. They found a great secluded swimming hole. We stayed at the river for 4 hours and the girls just loved it! They didn't complain the whole time. Gracie and Madi love the outdoors. They got so dirty playing in the dirt and petting the dogs. It was so much fun, until about 11pm. And no, it wasn't the girls that made it bad, it was my ALLERGIES!!! We were a bit worried that the girls would have a hard time falling asleep, but within 15 minutes they were out. So the adults stayed up until 12 hanging around the fire. By that time I had tissues jammed up both nostrils and running through a brand new box of tissues fast. I knew it was going to be a rough night, so we put an air mattress in the van so I could sleep in there and not wake the girls up. Around 2 am, I was still awake and suffering so bad. I was running out of Kleenex fast. I decided to go wake Jeff up and tell him that we had to leave. There was no way I could have stayed. I can't remember the last time I had an allergy attack that bad. So we loaded up our perfect sleeping babies into the van and took off. That was the longest hour and half ever! When we pulled into town around 3:15 am I used my last tissue. At 3:30, I was taking a shower to get the smoke off. I was a lot better the next day, which was the 4th, so we went back up to the campground and then went to the beach to watch fireworks. Overall it was a great time, but man alive I hope I don't get an attack like that ever again!!!