Birthday

Happy Birthday Randal! On his birthday we had a delicious dinner and I made a peanut butter chocolate cake for dessert.

Happy Birthday Randal!

I planned a surprise birthday trip for Randal to Twin Falls. He had no idea where we were going and for how long until an hour and a half into the trip. Then about 1/2 hour later, he saw our pillows in the back and realized we were staying overnight at Kurt and Katrina's. Kiel was our chauffeur and Charisse and Logan came along for the adventure. Here are some pictures of our birthday weekend.
(Thanks Kurt and Kat for the balloons)

1st stop: Kurt's ham radio club Boy scout fest.

Watching BASE jumpers off the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls.We took a hike at Shoshone Falls.



Beautiful girls!

Racing up for the hike at Shoshone Falls.
We saw a snake.




We stopped at Twin Falls, now only one Fall. Randal is super excited to be there.
Our photo shoot.... at the Twin Falls Temple.





The Corn Maze in Twin Falls at the college.

Birthday dessert (thanks Kurt and Katrina for making delicious brownies!)
Having fun with Kurt's glasses.



Making caramel apples.




Thanks for having a birthday Randal! I love you! Thank you Kurt, Katrina, Kiel, Charisse, and Logan for making memories with us!

Sand Dunes

Randal and I brought my sisters to the sand dunes last weekend. We had a great time playing in the sand. We did get our exercise from running up and down the dunes. The weather was perfect. The sand was cool and the sunset was colorful!

Utah trip and baby blessing

We went camping this weekend for a baby blessing. EJ and Ken had their son blessed on Sunday. We left Saturday morning and headed to SLC. We went to the Church History Museum, toured the top of the Conference Center, toured Rich's new dentist office, and went camping. While waiting for everyone to get done with the museum Randal was waiting outside since it was a nice day. He saw his cousin David and his daughter Lisa. I walked outside at that time too. We haven't seen them in a few years and it happened to be that they were walking by the museum the same time we were outside of the museum. It was fun to talk with them.

We went to the Utah Foster Care Chalk Art Festival in SLC. There were many people who shared their talent of art. We enjoyed seeing all the different pieces.

In the afternoon we went swimming at our campground. They had a nice heated pool. Saturday evening we EJ, Ken, Benjamin, and Ken's family came to our campsite and we had tin foil dinners and s'mores. We had a great time visiting and enjoying the beautiful weather together.

We had a nice walk in the later evening and then went to bed. We woke up early in the morning to pouring rain. Kurt and Katrina are the only ones who had rain gear so they ran all our stuff from the tents to the van. Thank you! We quickly packed up and brought everything over to a covered pavilion where we rolled everything up and packed the van. We had planned the night before with EJ and Ken to get to church a little early so we could all sit together – sure enough, we could all sit together because we (the campers) got to church 2 hours early due to the rain and we had no other place to stay dry than the church.

After the baby blessing at church we all went to EJ and Ken’s house and enjoyed a delicious meal. Then we hit the road back home. We had a fun weekend and enjoyed the company.

When we got back to Rexburg there was a double rainbow! Here are some photos of the weekend. Enjoy!