Catch - up post number 9, Week in Idaho

After the wedding in Denver, I headed to Rigby, ID to spend a week with my sister and her sweet family. This wasn't necessarily a week of "vacation" as it involved a lot of work! But, we managed to have a lot of fun while I was there!

Every year Rexburg hosts an International Music and Dance festival. This involves a parade of the countries that participated in the festival. Here's a few pictures of the parade:

China

Japan:

Mexico:

Three of the four nephews with one of the guys from the Mexico group:

We made a trip to the famous Rigby, Lake. Here's a few pics of the fun we had!

Notice the whoppers - I think Brendon ate most of that container of whoppers! That's what aunts are good for, right? (letting you eat what you want?!)

We buried the boys in the sand. This is Carson:

This is Aidan. Notice the floaties... I thought that was pretty funny, just in case he downs in the sand :)

Of course, Uncle Winston had to be buried too!

Playing in the water:

Carson and Aidan played in their last soccer game while we were there. Carson did great - he played forward (the best position, right?!) to start the game and then finished in the goal and had some great saves!

Here's some pics of Carson in action:

Aidan was another story... The below pictures are a little misleading as I think they were the most action he had in the game! He was busy laying on the ground, twirling in circles and hugging the other team players! It was pretty funny to watch :) But, I have hope for him as I'm pretty sure I turned some cartwheels on the soccer field when I was his age!

Here's Aidan:

Here's precious baby Devon - the 4th John boy!

On Thursday night we made it to the sand dunes where we went to a "hidden lake". On the way to the lake, we of course had to stop to let Aaron and Winston do a little bridge jumping!

Here's a video of their 10.0 dives :)

While at the sand dunes, we managed to loose the key to their van (the only key to their van!) so it made for an adventurous night!

We were able to use this guy's phone at the sand dunes... (since all of our phones and purses were locked in the van)...

This is Thomas Taylor, apparently he is a world famous "pro-paintballer" ?? Yeah, well when we used his phone he offered my 2 year old nephew some of his stickers "hey dude, want some stickers??" pretty funny. The stickers were of the above picture.

We ended up getting a ride from a stranger in a mini van - all 8 of us plus their 3 kids and the driver!! (thank goodness Idahoans are friendly!) and made it to Aaron's parents house not too far away.

We managed to get a key made for the van by 9:00a.m. the next morning which was great because Winston and I were driving the four nephews to Salt Lake City to pick up my dad from the airport that afternoon!

Dad's flight ended up being delayed so we spent some quality couple of hours at the Layton park.

Here we are feeding the duckies:

We managed to pick up dad from the airport after which we stopped in Park City for some delicious dinner from McDonalds and then headed to Denver! We stayed the night with Brad and Carena after which Dad and the boys continued driving to Arkansas and then I caught a flight home to Reno!

Thanks John family for such a fun visit!