Summer In One Week

We had a jam-packed week in Idaho. I think we got to do everything that we wanted to do there and more.  It was a little crazy going from one thing to the next, but oh so fun!  We loved every second of it, even if our kids were exhausted the whole time we were there.  They also had fun, so sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do, right? 

We got family pictures with both sides of Hadley's family.  I forgot my camera when we got them taken with Blayne and Leslie, but here's a few I snapped at John and Melissa's.  (Yes, the whole family got pictures taken in Oregon Ducks clothing.  That's for a different post.  Gotta love it!)

As I was saying, we basically crammed everything we missed doing in Idaho, in one week.  We went four wheeling, waterskiing, swimming, to the sand dunes, razor rides, had a big volleyball tournament, visited with friends, rode horses, went on a Harley ride, and cruised up the river for a steak dinner, and a little fishin. Ahh!  We love to play! 

Weston and Mandi's horse that Jerzi was in love with

Here's Had showin us he hasn't lost his skills.  He got up his first try in the air chair.  He's still got it in slolem skiing too!  He makes everything look easy.  I heard his brother say as Had was skiing, "Gosh dang it, why does he have to be good at everything he does?"  It's true folks, everything he tries or does, he's good at it.  All of his siblings didn't care about anything else except Hadley not winning the volleyball tournament.  That could tell ya a little somethin about Had and his family.  HAHA  

I got up on the air chair too, and I slolem skiied.  I was so happy!  I'm not good, and I definitely don't make it look easy, but I was happy that I could still do it, and it was so much fun.  That air chair thing is so cool!  I loved it.   

Jeter didn't want to do anything in the water.  He's a little afraid....of everything.  And he doesn't like cold.  But those excuses just won't fly with Had around.  We're all about forcing them into having fun. :)  It took a little bit for him to go from being mad, to being ok with it, to having fun.

Good times with the fam!

We went on a Harley ride all through West Yellowstone, then looped around to Jackson Hole, met up with the rest of the family and went swimming, ate dinner, and over the Jackson Pass back to Rexburg.  Such a pretty ride!  I took a ton of pictures.  I forgot how pretty everything is here!  I loved it.  Had didn't get to enjoy it as much as I did (we may have been going a little too fast for him to take his eyes off the road), but it was so beautiful and peaceful.

Look at those Tetons!!!  Man, what a site!  I can't get over the mountains.  Oh how I miss them.

Boating down the Snake River, with a beautiful sunset like this, I reminded Had of a song we learned in 4th grade about Idaho.   It goes like this:

Celebrate Idaho, it's a century old. 

 Look around and enjoy what you see. 

We've built a beautiful home

 where are children can grow, 

Celebrate Idaho.

Celebrate Idaho.

We sang it together on the boat.  (I hope John and Melissa didn't hear us. HAHA)

We weren't cheesey singing it, I promise.

But I thought about how we were celebrating Idaho, and all the things we love to do there, and how much I enjoyed everything I saw.

I couldn't get over how beautiful this place is. And so I had to force my thoughts and songs on Had.  :)

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(Don't worry, we don't have an influx of creepy flying things in Idaho, those are just bugs on the windshield of the boat.)

And having this cute boy by my side the whole time we were in Idaho made it all that much better, cold sores and all.  :)   I love him.  I love Idaho.  I love family.  And I love playing.

Great Summer!!!

(p.s. it's not over yet.)