Having Fun with Family

Joe's Sister Melissa came to visit us for a few days this week, so we came up with some fun things to do while she was here. On Wednesday we took her disc golfing at Freeman Park. Thursday we went to the zoo and the the Idaho Falls temple visitors center. We were really lucky, because the visitors center had the original Arnold Friberg paintings on display. They are the pictures that are inside the Book Of Mormon and in the gospel art kit. It was a really awesome display and I am glad we were able to see it. The display leaves for New York on June 1st so we are lucky we went the day we did or we would have missed it! I didn't take any pictures on Thursday because we already have a bunch from the zoo, and I wasn't sure if you could take pictures inside the visitors center (you can lucky for us Melissa had her camera with her so I will try and remember to post the picture from there after she emails it to me).

Friday after the boys got out of school we went to hike Cave Falls. This was a really beautiful hike. Joe's parents and his other little sister Madison and her friend Shawnee came up Friday evening, so Saturdays adventure was Craters of the Moon. This is one of our favorite places to take people when the come to visit. We had a really good time, and we hope that Melissa did too!

This picture was taken inside of the Indian tunnel, which is a lava tube at Craters of the Moon.

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Joe has the CD Flood by They Might Be Giants. The boys love the song Istanbul (Not Constantinople). This is a video clip of them trying to sing it. Enjoy!

Free and Fun

Joe has been home from work for the last week using up some personal time so that he won't loose it, so I wanted to do something fun over the weekend that wouldn't cost a lot of money. I got on the Internet and searched out things to do in south east Idaho and found a National Landmark that we have never been to. Hell's Half Acre National Landmark. It is at the rest stop between Blackfoot and Idaho Falls. (You can do the hike at either the northbound or the southbound rest stop) It was a really easy hike (More of a walk than a hike) and the kids had a good time. The best part of all was that it was free! We did end up spending a little money but that was because we decided to stop at subway on the way and have a picnic when we got there.

We also stopped in Blackfoot to take a picture of the kids in front of the giant potato at the potato museum!

Joe is off the rest of this week so stay tuned, we may have more exciting adventures this weekend!

A Fantastic DI Find!!!

On Friday Joe and I went to the DI in search of a hiking back pack that we could put Jena in when we are hiking, we didn't find one but, Joe did make a fantastic find. He found a ping pong table top for our pool table for $6! We looked at getting one at Christmas last year but found that they were way out of our price range. When we got home we looked it up online to see how much it would have cost new and they run about $400. We were very excited about this find! Now if we could find that back pack that we are looking for!

Weekend in Utah

We went down to Utah over the weekend for Samantha and Nick's baptisms. (They are Joe's Niece and Nephew). We were also able to attend my brother Rex's ward on Sunday, he was made the Elders Quorum president in his ward.
The one bad thing about going down to Utah is we always come home with twice as much stuff as we take with us. Sammy decided that she is tired of her Barbie's and her Polly pockets so she gave them to Jacey. This included 2 barbie houses, a couple barbie cars, about 20 barbies a bag full of barbie clothes, some doll clothes and a whole bunch of Polly pocket dolls, clothes and other Polly pocket stuff. As you can guess Jacey is in barbie heaven! Joe did tell her yesterday as he was loading it all in the car that she better not ask for any toys whenever we go to the store because she has all she is going to get until she is twelve (because it would have taken that many birthdays & Christmases or more for us to buy what she was given).
All in all we had a fun weekend!

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Jena has discovered her voice this week, she has also learned how to wave. Here is a video of these two new accomplishments!

Still feeling the effects of our flood

I decided today that I would go through all of the baby clothes, (because I can't find any shorts or Capri's that fit Jena.) and while going through them I found a box of clothes that were wet from when the kitchen and basement flooded. I guess I'm glad I found them today because at this point they only stink and aren't growing mold yet. There was one pair of pink cowboy boots that were growing mold, I guess I will probably have to throw them away which makes me kind of sad because they are so cute. Unless someone knows a way that they can be saved! Needless to say because I was feeling so ambitious today I now have twice as much laundry to do!
I did find a couple pair of shorts and some dresses that should fit her! I guess I did have some success in that regard.