Nevada Day

We had a 3 day weekend this week in celebration of Nevada Day.

Nevada entered the union on October 31st, 1864 via the longest telegraph ever sent.
And in Elko you know what that means...
Parade!!
We have a parade for everything.

The girls weere so excited this year to be in the parade. Courtney rode with her dance class.

Mallory walked with Girl Scouts.

Kevin picked up some easy overtime.

Lily was introduced to running into the street for candy and loved it.
George was so busy I didn't even get a picture of him!

Last year when I packed up things to move to Elko we had no idea that we would still be living with my parents a year later. All of the coats of varying sizes that we did not need ended up deep in storage, including the two coats that would have fit Lily this year. Grrrr. Thankfully Jana still had this one from George that I had passed along to her two boys and she passed back to me. Problem solved. Technically it is a boys coat, but I think it is super cute!

Sad thing? Yea, George wore this at 6 months old. Boy was a monster.

Happy Halloween!

This year Mallory was Nancy Drew, Courtney was Princess Wildflower, George was a police detective, and Lily wore the traditional kitty costume.

We attended the trunk or treat put on my the 3 youth groups in our building, carved pumpkins and had dinner/trick or treating/scary movie at a friends house.

We have all had too much candy, but cannot wait to do it again!

Tennis

Tennis is George's new obsession. Kevin and I took him over to the park one afternoon while the girls were in school.

Car washing

Summertime the kids will look for any excuse to play in the water. Aunt Izzy was washing her car one day and they jumped right in, then moved on to Dad's truck.

FHE Kickball

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