Kris was talking with his brother David one afternoon about playing charades with the family. David’s new girlfriend, Nicki, got to do “Dick Tracy”. WE LOVE CHARADES! Hearing about it, when we’re SO far away is surprisingly hard. Love.charades. Kris hung up from talking with his brother and said, “We’re going to Idaho for Thanksgiving!” We hadn’t been to Idaho since the summer and we were a little desperate to meet the new girlfriend, so we were VERY excited to go!
We left on a Sunday night. We were supposed to leave around midnight. Kris got home from work and went straight to bed. I got the kids to bed and cleaned up and finished the packing, and when I got in bed, Kris was totally wide awake! He said, “Let’s just go.” So we did. You know, we don’t get a lot of spontaneous moments now that we have munchkins, so its fun when we get to do something spur of the moment (sort of)! We left around 9:30 p.m. The kids slept until Mesa and then stayed awake until just outside of Phoenix. I finally had to get in the back with them (poor Kris had to drive alone in the front seat most of the trip!) and then they slept until Kanab. And wouldn’t you know it, just outside Kanab…Annie puked. Girl isn’t allowed to eat on trips anymore.
The kids actually did really awesome the whole trip. I can’t complain AT ALL about our drive there. They finally got grumpy around Snowville, UT (about two hours to Twin Falls). When we pulled off the freeway to head into Twin, we gave in and let the kids play “Fish Farts” on our phones. That gave us a few moments from the whining and crying and got us to Grandma and Grandpa’s house!
We stayed in Twin from Monday until Sunday afternoon. While we were there, Grandma watched the munchkins one day and Kris and I went to Miracle Hot Springs. “Hot springs in the winter?” you ask. FREAKING AMAZING. Loved it. And loved the break from the kiddos, especially after that long car ride.
The kids had so much fun playing with their cousins. We stayed with Kris’s brother, Eric and his family, so the kids always had someone to play with them. For part of the week we got to play with Hadley, Nicki’s daughter. And then we got to play with Sophie, David’s daughter! Annie and Emily loved having little girls their size to play with.
The day before Thanksgiving, Mr. Jack turned 1! We had a little birthday party for Emily and Jack at Grandma’s house. I made a spaghetti dinner and a Fish (Cup)Cake (chocolate cake with marshmallow buttercream…YUM!). Grandma and I had done A LOT of Thanksgiving cooking that day, so I’m pretty proud at how my cake turned out. I was exhausted!!
Jack and Emily didn’t care how it turned out…they thought it was delicious!:)
It’s like a potato chip…can’t eat just one!:)
Everyone was at Grandma & Grandpa’s for Thanksgiving dinner except Uncle Brian. We sure missed seeing him on our trip! We had quite the feast, and when it was done, all the boys (and some of us girls) went and shot Grandpa’s new BB gun.
Cousins! Annie, Jack, Sophie, Emily, Anthony & Lianna
We were supposed to leave Saturday afternoon to get home Sunday (Kris had to work Monday night) but when Saturday rolled around we weren’t quite ready to leave. We stayed one more night. We got to go to Lianna’s 8th birthday party and I even got experience my first Filipino feast. Leah is an AWESOME cook…it was delicious!!
Sunday afternoon was a little rough. Bawled like a baby. It was SO hard to leave. We had such a fun time playing with our family…love them, so much!!
