We had so much fun Memorial Day weekend! We enjoyed camping with family and friends. We took our motor home up, we sold the travel trailer and bought the motor home and it was nice to have more space. I have nothing against tent camping, but it is nice to have the motor home for the girls. We had a heater and air conditioning, so I wasn't having to worry if they were ok! Plus it was just nice! We had an eventful time getting up there though. Just past Horseshoe Bend we had one of our tires blow in the back, if you haven't ever had a tire pop on you...it is super loud. I thought someone had shot a gun! Well luckily we have double tires in the back, so we still had one on that side. We pulled over and it took around 2 hours to change tire, finally a Good Samaritan stopped and helped us out, I really am not the best to have around for something like this, I can do what I am told, but not really all that mechanical. We finally got back on the road and then we got pulled over past Donnely for speeding...our speedometer isn't working very good! Luckily the officer was really nice and just gave us a warning. We finally pulled into our camp site around midnight, to the relief of some worried parents! Brian's mom and dad helped us get the girls to bed. So a 2 hour trip turned into around a 5 hour one! Brian went into town and got the whole tire situation taken care of, luckily the prices weren't that different from Boise's. After that though we had a very fun weekend playing at the lake, and just spending time together. Andrea and Abbie were up the last 2 weeks from California, it was so fun to have them there, we did miss having Mike! Sunday everyone went to church at the 9 am time. Our girls were still asleep so we decided to let them sleep and go at 1 that afternoon. To show what a small world we have, who was there but none other than my best friend Melanie Bird and her family! I was sooo happy to see her, it has been too long! Here are some pictures of our weekend, it was a fun time!
It was nice having electricity at the campsite, while their cousins took naps, they got to watch an afternoon movie, or play at the beach with mom and dad.
"look girls it's a bug" And Lily took care of the bug... with her shoe!
All the cousins sitting in a tree...how fun is that?
Autumn is so social, she really loves playing with everyone! She was having fun with Grandma here!
Grandma and Autumn...so cute!
Grandma and Andrea helping the kids on their train.... Choo Choo
Grandpa was in high demand for digging and building in the sand!
Grandpa had fun burying the grand kids!
Autumn just chillin!
Amanda and Lily making "buttprints" in the sand! Lily thought it was so funny!
Such good sisters, and good friends!
Cloey was having a fun time I promise!
Both the girls had fun pointing all the different sights out to us!
Lily with her roasting stick, she had fun roasting her marshmallows!
Cloey and Brian around the fire getting ready to roast marshmallows!
4 of the 5 granddaughters playing in the sand. They had so much fun!
Brian building castles for the girls.
Autumn hanging out at the beach, she got a little burned under the eyes, the only place I missed with the sunblock. I am proud to say that her little head is not burned!
This is the pool that Grandpa mad for the kids.
This is the sunset on Sunday night, it was so gorgeous to watch it on the beach!
Yikes, so now I am officially old, at least that is how I feel. Now that I have to say that I am 25. I mean when I said I am 24 I still felt pretty young. But now that I am 25 and have no more age related restrictions I am old. ( I am talking about having to be 25 to rent a car, at least that is what I heard.) I had a fun birthday. My sister Melisa and I went to lunch and had some fun shopping and cruising the mall. I am soooo glad to have her as my sister and that we are so close (literally, we are 2 years and 1 day apart, her birthday is the day after mine). We had so much fun. Then Brian and I went out to Tucanos for dinner while my awesome mom watched the kids. Tucanos was so great! We enjoyed the food, and I thought that they had a fantastic salad bar. Brian got me the coolest present, he got me the new ipod shuffle. It is so great it is so small and clips onto you, and you control everything with some buttons that are built in to your headphones. Not to mention it talks to you telling the song you are listening to or letting you choose playlists. Anyway, I really like it, it will be great to use while working out, or on these duathlons/triathlons I am going to be doing! Then we got the girls home and they sang to me, and helped me blow out the candles on my brownies that they made with daddy that day! Very yummy! I had to include an image of the shuffle, because I really think it is so cool! Thanks to my great hubby, I love music and this was a great gift!