Trip to Idaho

Man, am I behind on blogging!  Hopefully I will get caught up today! : )

Let’s see.  So the last week in August, Austin had a break for school AND his brother was getting married—perfect time for a trip to Idaho!

We flew to Salt Lake on Tuesday and spent the night there.  We drove past the temple.  Makenna was very excited to see the temple and called it a “sand castle.”  She also kept talking about “Cody getting married in the temple!”  I love that my sweet little girl loves the temple so much!

We drove to Burley bright and early on Wednesday morning.   Makenna and Max had a blast helping Grandma in the garden!  (We forgot our camera, so the only pictures we have were taken on my phone!)

On Thursday we spent the ENTIRE day outdoors!  It was BEAUTIFUL weather in Idaho! : )  We headed to the park to play, then had a picnic lunch, then went swimming—lots of outdoor playing!  The kids (including the BIG kid, Austin) had a blast—so nice to be outside after being stuck indoors during the hot Arizona summer!

         

That evening we drove to Rexburg and met up with Cody and his bride-to-be for dinner at Winger’s.  Yum!  I’ve missed that place!  It was crazy to see how different Rexburg is in just the short time we have been away!  After dinner, they took us to the fire station (both were firefighters/paramedics in Rexburg before they moved to Oklahoma) and let the kids play on the fire trucks.  They loved it!

  

On Friday we drove to Idaho Falls for the wedding.  It was beautiful!  I haven't been to a wedding since we got married almost 3 1/2 years ago.  It was so nice to hear the ceremony.  I had tears in my eyes as I looked over and saw my handsome husband and remembered the covenants we had made.  I love the temple!

Afterwards we had a luncheon, then wondered around the mall, and then finally had the reception.  Neither one of my kids had a nap the entire day and Max was a MONSTER!  Thanks to everyone who looked after Makenna while I was trying to take care of that crazy guy!  Finally, we drove back to Burley for the night.  It was LATE when we got back and we all fell into our bed exhausted!

On Saturday we headed to the hotel for the Open House.  Once again Max wasn’t very happy, but luckily we were able to walk around outside for a while. 

Then it was flying back to Phoenix.  We got home at like 10 pm and Austin had to be at work at 11pm!  Whew!

It was a very exhausting trip but so much fun!