Summer vacation-Idaho

We arrived at my sister's house in St. Anthony, ID on Thursday evening. The kids had such a fun time playing with their cousins, Brynn and Jordan. It was so nice at my sister's house...the weather was perfect summer weather. Nice and cool in the mornings and evenings, and warm during the day, with no humidity! Also, the view of the Tetons was also beautiful to look at on a regular basis. We have no views in Kansas. I really do miss seeing the mountains.

Friday, we met my mom, grandma Avery, and my nephew Kellen for lunch at Bajio's in Rexburg.My sister and I popped over to DownEast Outfitters for a bit, and then my mom, grandma and Tony took all the kids (except Levi) back to my sister's house while my sister and I went grocery shopping for the food for my family's reunion at the cabin Saturday, and the food for the dinner after Levi's blessing on Sunday evening. My dad popped up to Kristy's house later on as well, and was able to meet his new grandson Levi for the first time. So sweet!



Saturday morning, rather early, I was coming out of my room and noticed my children, Logan and Avery, along with my niece Brynn, running down the hall from Brynn's room to the living room and back...all the while giggling and laughing and trying to be quiet. It was rather suspicious, so I asked them what they were doing. My nephew Kellen was sleeping on the couch, and the kids pointed to Kellen and said "look, look!" Again, while giggling and laughing and falling on the floor...while trying to be quiet. This is what I saw.



They were surrounding Kellen with naked Barbie dolls and My Little Ponies. They were quite proud of themselves and thought it was the funniest thing ever! My first instinct as a mother was to reprimand them and tell them that wasn't very appropriate. But then I thought about when I was little...and especially when I played with my cousins and brother and sister, and how funny we thought we were then too. And honestly it was hilarious that they had thought of playing this "trick" on Kellen. So I took a picture of it and waited for Kellen to wake up to see his reaction. I think it was just what the kids were waiting for. Hysterical. Apparently the night before, Kellen told them that naked Barbie's freaked him out.Funny kids.

Saturday morning, the kids went out to jump on the trampoline. Here is a great jumping picture!



Saturday afternoon we headed up to the cabin to spend the evening with my family. The kids had fun playing on the "merry-g-round". Here is Uncle Kris pushing them around and around.



We got a brief little spurt of rain in the afternoon, so Avery and my niece Cassidy decided to catch some raindrops on their tongues. Refreshing!




We had a little program Saturday night, and Avery and Logan were so cute sitting by each other watching. They had their arms around each other at one point, but when I tried to get a picture, my brother thought he would be funny and stick his hand in front of my camera. So, I missed the moment. This was what I did get though.So cute!


And I got lucky to get such a great shot of my grandma Avery holding her great grandson Levi. What a special moment.