Idaho Trip - Dec 26

Date: 12/26
Location: Blackfoot

December 26th.
The last day of the trip.

It hung over us like a dark cloud that we pretended didn't exist.

The Murrays were still here and we were determined to

make the most of every minute!

The boys were all outside with their guns bright and early.

Within seconds Max shot a bird.

They were so stinking excited!

(picture stolen from Lacie's blog!)

Ryan, Arron and Luke had gone hunting that morning.

So the women and children...and Justin hung out!

Eventually we went down and bombarded Grandma Norma with our chaos!

This remote control chair always seems to be the hit.

Which clearly it's not supposed to be a jungle gym.

But who can resist a chair that lifts up and dumps you out of it?!

Before we left I snapped a pic of my fave cousin and fave grandma!

Love you both!

When we got back to Papa Nolie's house it was time for the Murrays to leave.

It was quite the feat to try to get my kids out of their car!

As little as they see each other they still have so much fun together!

So we waved goodbyes and off they set to West Yellowstone.

Which meant that inevitably we were the next family to have to leave as well! :(

The kids begged and begged to stay in Idaho as long as possible.

I wished it was longer too.

But we had commitments back at home to get back for.

So we decided that we would stay until after dinner and then pull an all nighter drive again.

That night we went out to eat at the only sit down restaurant in Blackfoot!

(ok maybe there's 3 now)

It truly was the Last Supper.

From there we headed to the freeway and on to Arizona.

We made a last minute stop outside Salt Lake to meet up with the 

missionary friend that baptized Ryan.

That was really cool!

Then we figured since the kids hadn't fallen asleep yet that we would pull off 

and drive around Temple Square.

They got the 5 minute bus tour version of all the Church highlights.

Maybe next year we'll have time to actually walk around there!

The kids crashed asleep before we were even back on the freeway.

And the next 10 hours were a blur!

We safely pulled into our house in Anthem at 8am.

The kids woke up in our driveway and were TICKED that we weren't in Idaho.

Me too kiddos. Me too.

They said they were staying in the car until we drove back.

Needless to say we literally had to pry them out of their car seats.

I guess that's the the affirmation that they had a

WONDERFUL IDAHO TRIP!!!

Thanks to all that made it such a great time for us.

We love you forever!!

And P.S. 

it's 77 degrees here is you wanna escape winter and come visit!! :)