Vacation

We took off last week for a small winter vacation to Idaho. The kids had a four day weekend for the holiday, so we took advantage of it. The kids had a blast!! We had gotten a few inches of snow the day we left, the kids were so bummed to leave the snow, and kept asking if there would be snow in Idaho. We got a good laugh out of that. On our way out of town we saw this:

Only in Arizona would you see a snow plow with it's plow down, plowing nothing.

We drove to Beaver, and stayed the night there. The next morning we took our time and got ready to drive the rest of the way. We stopped in Tremonton, and saw our good friend James, and meet his wife and 2 kids. We had a really good time, and hope to make it a usual pit stop. Then off to Blackfoot we went. 

The next day, Cris, his dad, and Kaden went ice fishing. They caught 12 fish, but let them all go. The next day they went again, but I went with them, and took the rest of the kids. Cole wouldn't even get out of the car, and Jocelyn went out for just a few minutes before she gave up to the cold. They only caught 1 fish that day, and they wished that they had kept the ones from the day before. I have decided that whoever thought that ice fishing was fun, is crazy!!! We also went and visited Cris' friend Jade, and my friend Tanae. 

After a few days at Cris' parents house we headed to my parents house. While there the kids played in all the snow and my dad helped them build a snow cave. He told them they had to sleep in it. :) On Presidents day, we all went up to Grand Targhee to go skiing. The kids went to the ski school in the morning, while us adults took turns watching Cole, and going skiing. Jocelyn was our star skier!! The instructor told us she was a natural. She even went up the big hill several times, while Kennedy and Kaden stayed on the little hill. The kids loved it!!! They keep talking about wanting to go again. We hope to take them to Snow Bowl soon. 

We also got to stop by and see Gram/Oma a few times. She even made us a yummy lunch the day we left. And Grandma Clark made us raspberry cheesecake, and gave us some of her yummy homemade raspberry jam. (which I left. :( thank goodness my mom will bring it with them when they come visit in April) 

We stayed the night at Cris' sisters house. They had gotten 2 feet of snow that day!!! We hot tubbed it that night. Those who were crazy enough did snow angels in the freshly fallen snow. 

On our way home we took a small detour through Hurricane Utah, and picked up our newest family member. 

Meet Chewie