I mentioned months ago that we would be going to Idaho at the end of August for a fun getaway with some very fun people. Well, it was a blast!!! My dear friend Mandy invited us up along with another of our good friend, Julia and her family. Where do I even begin. Hmmmm.... we got there late Wednesday night.
Mandy's cute house. Loved it!Julia's family got there Friday morning. On Thursday we drove to Rexburg to see my old campus of Ricks college (now it's BYU-Idaho). It was so fun for me to show my kiddos and hubby my old stomping ground. OH the memories I have of that wonderful school. I haven't been back since I graduated 10 years ago! Honestly, it is the most wonderful school on earth! Mandy was my roommate and Julia and I took a cross crounty ski class together. It sure has changed in the last 10 years, but there is still such an AMAZING spirit on that campus.
Mandy infront of our old dorm building.
Rexburg's new Temple.
kind of a neat thing that they used a "wheat" theme for this temple and in some of the stain glass windows is stalks of wheat.
School doesn't start for another week or so, so the dorms were locked. I climbed up on the fence of the dorm to get a picture of my old apartment, #232. After our little walk through memory lane we drove up to Mesa Falls. Gorgeous!!!! Idaho has such beautiful mountains and falls. The kids were wiped out, so it was off to Mandy and James' house for a yummy garden dinner. Did I fail to mention that they live out in the country on 2 acres? So fun! I forgot to get a picture of their most impressive garden (shared between them, James' dad and sister). Behind their house is a giant barley field of which is used to make Budweiser beer. Unfortunately, no beer for us folks though! :o) It was neat to see the huge tractors harvesting all that barley while we were there.
The barley fields behind Mandy's house. 
The rest of the time together was spent going water skiing,
Nathan's first time on a tube.
If you click on the picture you can see that Nathan didn't enjoy this experience.
Hannah LOVES the water nomatter what she's doing in it. Just like her daddy.
Aaron did awesome water skiing and for those waterski bums out there, look at that gorgeous water!
Me knee boarding. I don't know how you crazy people ski, but I cannot seem to figure it out for the life of me! BBQ/Zipline
Me harnessing up for the zipline
Here goes Hannah
Loved it!
Aaron was too fast that this is the best shot I got. Nathan was all good to go until we put him on the actual line and then he wanted nothing to do with it. Funny kid. hiking around an old lava field
Julia, Adam, Brooklyn, and Jacob
Mandy, James, Corbin, and Grant
Going into a huge lava cave. Super fun!
Corbin, Hannah, Jake 
Me and my bud!Then we hiked up this mountain and the views were incredible!
Nathan, Brooklyn, Corbin ages 2, 3, 2
playing games,
lots of laughing, and yes, more visits to Ricks. We had so much fun. Good friends are rare to find these days, so we are all the more grateful to have them in our lives.
3 comments:
How fun! That looks like such a fun weekend! I am glad you got to go. I only wish we were a little closer so we could have snuck over and given you a squeeze! :)
Your little Nathan is about the cutest little mug I have ever seen!
too cool! It makes me think about going back to Provo someday with Jennah and Andy... but then that drive makes me think "not sometime soon" :)
Hm. We missed you all by a couple of weeks. Next time though. Next time.
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