Showing posts with label Family outings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family outings. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Nat-Soo-Pah/Twin Falls

With Kevin off work due to his surgury we decided to hit the road and do something fun as a family. Of course Kevin had just had surgery so low impact activities were the name of the game. We headed up the road to Nat-Soo-Pah. We had so much fun camping and swimming in the hot springs.





The kids really loved the diving boards. they jumped off over and over and OVER again. I had to be there though to help George swim to the side and by the end of the evening courtney was getting pretty tired and needed and guiding had as well. Kevin's knee couldn't take treading water so it was my job 100% of the time. I was as tired as the kids by the end!



Mallory got brave and did some back flips.








Me going to George to help him to the side.





The next morning.


Yup... still tired. :)

for what ever reason the lighting inside the car that morning was perfect Of course George still had breakfast all over his face but I had to snap a few pictures anyways.

After packing up we headed into Twin Falls. Twin is the home of the Perine Bridge. The bridge was the highest in the nation at the time it was built and spans a masive canyon. there are 2 or 3 glof courses at the bottom. It is popular with BASE jumpers. We were ucky enough that while were were there there were several people getting ready to go.


READY, SET

GO!



We also drove over to Shoshone Falls


This is going to become a yearly tradition for us, especially Nat-Soo-Pah

Monday, July 06, 2009

4th of July at the park

If my post only had one picture this one would be it... Relaxing, family, yummy food.
But, this is me so of course there are more. :)


Kevin had knee surgery on Wednesday so by Saturday he still wasn't up to much, but he hobbled to the food table a few times and did lots of snuggling with the kids.

Grandma had a craft table set up for the kids





WATER FIGHT!!



This year ended up a little cooler than years past, so everybody ended up changing afterwards instead of just drying out. Thankfully we got it going fairly early because we ended up with about 1/2 hour of rain mid afternoon.


4th of July has turned into our unofficial family reunion each year. We had spectacular plans for an official family portrait on Friday evening, we all dressed-up and everything. I actually wore makeup! Unfortunately just as we arrived at the designated location the heavens decided to empty... along with one little boys stomach. :( We did take a snapshot on Saturday.

We are a crazy bunch!

I am not entirely sure these are my children.... Willingly playing with dogs?


The sun is starting to set and the card games are winding up.

Glow sticks make the perfect disraction between sunset and the fireworks.

More to come... Mallory's first paintball game and fireworks.
We'll see how those turned out, I'm not optimistic.

Thursday, July 02, 2009