Trip to Idaho

My Little Sister Rebecca got married on the Friday before Labor Day. We went up to Idaho for the wedding. I swear we took pictures at the wedding, but they are not to be found, so If I do find them I will post them later.
Anyway, Devon stayed with us in Idaho for the weekend. On Saturday we celebrated my Dad's birthday. He doesn't want presents, so my sister Emilee planned this scavenger hunt of all of the things that he loves. We played tennis



Went to Reed's Dairy to see the cows and eat ice cream

Went to the airport to see airplanes
We ended in a park where the kids had boat races and played in the water.



It was a really fun day.
All of my sisters and their kids were there. It was fun to be with family, and Spencer loved playing with all of his cousins. Here is Kate reading the comics to him on Sunday morning.

Devon left on Sunday, but the kids and I stayed to have fun with Grandma and Grandpa.
On Sunday night Spencer and Grandpa had a rousing game of tinker toy "ice hockey." My dad set up goals and everything, so when Spencer got more goals he said he needed a golden medal. Grandpa is a great golden medal maker.

One reason that I stayed was to make applesauce. My boys love homemade applesauce, and my parents tree had a ton of apples this year. We made 40+ bottles. James helped by eating all of the apples.


Spencer was "the smasher." Now he loves to tell people how he made the applesauce when we eat it.

After 2 days of applesauce we decided to have some fun. We fed the ducks (and the crazy seagulls)


We went to my sister Natalie's soccer game. We had to practice saying "Go Tigers" since my kids always say "Go Cougars." Actually James still said "Go Coug!"


We also went to the zoo. It was a pretty cold and misty day, so no one was there, but the animals were quite active. This monkey came right up to the glass to check Spencer out, it was pretty cool.


Here are some other pictures from the zoo





I have never heard a lion roar before, but it must have been the weather or something, this lion was definitely roaring.


Here is Spencer being Spencer

Dinning tables and chairs were half off at Shopko, I have been wanting to get one, so it was perfect timing. My parents van was quite packed on the trip home. We only had one little seat up in the back for Spencer and he was totally packed in. I forgot to take a picture, but he called it his castle. He actually said he was a princess in a castle. We tried to convince him to be a prince in a castle, but you never hear much about the prince.
On the way back we stayed at my sister's house in Salt Lake overnight. Spencer loves to play with his cousins and dress up in the Superhero costumes. I couldn't stop laughing at him the Hulk costume.



Anyway, it was a great trip. We had a lot of fun. Just the other night Spencer said "Remember when we went to Grandma's?" He loves visiting people, which is good since we travel a lot.
I figured out that in less than a year's time we have been to California twice (10 hours one way) to Texas twice (16 hours one way) and to Idaho Falls twice (also 10 hours one was) not to mention trips to Salt Lake, Albuquerque and Walmart in Farmington (2.5 hours one way). It is really good that our boys are good travelers, they have a lot of practice!