Our side trip to Grace Idaho, and Afton Wyoming

We took a day and traveled from Twin Falls to see more family. Adam's Grandpa spent about an hour with us. Adam was glad to see him.

Adam's sister, Emily with her husband Paul and their brand new baby, Theodore.

Finley found a chip clip and thought it made a great beak.

He didn't like the feel of grass on his knees so he spent all his time in this position.

twin falls

Our trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house was very fun. I loved watching Fisher with his cousins. He loves to have other kids to play with. I also got to see my good friend Allison who just had her second baby. We got to spend a few hours together. It's never enough. We took a little trip to see Emily, Adam's sister, and his Grandpa who lives in Star valley in Wyoming. It was an all day event but worth it. I'll do a separate blog about that trip. Here's a peek at our stay in Twin Falls.

Adam's twin sister Shannon came to stay for a couple days since we were there. This is her daughter, Caitlyn with Fisher. They had their own little table. They were so cute together.

This is is some of us eating dinner on the covered patio. Shawn (yellow shirt, Shannon's husband), Grandma Hamman, Adam, Dylan, Shannon, DeAnna, and Jim who unfortunately has his back to us.

The cousins with their icecream. Dylan, Justin, Fisher, Caitlyn

My ice cream sandwich

I made these corndog muffins for lunch one day.

The kids loved them. There were none left.

Grandma and Grandpa (Adam's parents) with Fisher and Finley

Fisher wasn't too sure about running through the sprinkler. But he sure loved running WITH the sprinkler.

I decided to take my own picture because I'm never in any because I'm the one taking them!

Gramps and Grammie

I love my Gramps and Grammie. Fisher did too. Grammie was great fun. She played with Fisher a lot. She gave him this little drinking glass and he just loves it. He still says, "I want da glass dat gammie give me." The drive there was so pretty. It was stinkin hot though. My gramps is so sweet. He kept staring at me and would come put his arm around me and say, "thanks for coming. it means a lot" He would just stare at me with a smile and a twinkle in his eyes. I feel like there's a special bond with us, even though i don't know him that well. My Grammie cracks me up. I don't know if she knows how funny she is. The kids put a million hand prints on her coffee table and she says, "I won't wash that table for a month!" She didn't trust Gramps to watch the kids at all because "He just doesn't pay attention!" My Gramps can't hear so she is constantly yelling at him, "BOB!" Their sliding glass door, which is their front door, doesn't work very well so going in and out is a challenge. My poor Gramps pretty much had door duty the whole time we were there. My Grammie got locked out because she couldn't open it and she yelled for him several times before he came because he's deaf. They make a wonderfully comical couple. I miss them as I write this. We'll have to go back soon.

This is the view from their front door.

Wild horses we saw on the way to their house. There was even a wild horse caution sign like you would normally see for deer.

Grammie having fun with Fisher. She exclaimed, "I haven't done this in years!"

These are yo yo's Deanna taught me how to make. I sewed a ton of them on the road trip back home. They just need some buttons in the middle and a hair clip to put them on.

What a fantastic memory.

our drive through lassen park

On our way home from my Gramps and Grammies house we detoured through Lassen National park.

The only time we got out of the car was to go into the visiter center. Fisher liked the tunnel a lot. The drive through Lassen National Park was beautiful and when the kids are older perhaps we'll go again to hike some trails. But for now we just stuck to the road and stayed in the car :)

Our lunch time in the parking lot of the visitor center. Fisher thought it was way cool that he got to sit on a rock.

Lassen volcano.

Finley and I enjoying some cheerios.

my new jewelry tree i got at tj max when I was in idaho. I love it.

I am happy about my lamp that i decided to paint. It's a beautiful coral orange red color now with a new lampshade. I'm getting pretty jazzed about all this painting stuff. I have big plans to paint a lot of stuff white. Adam says, " Now, you don't have to paint EVERYthing white." But I've got it in my head that white is clean and open feeling. Especially in our living room where it's a little dim. The light paint just seems to brighten it a little. And when you're as tired as I am, you need it to be nice and bright to keep you awake! My next items to paint white are my headboard in my bedroom, and my table in my living room. Adam has been extremely supportive in my new decorative adventures. He is actually the one who spray painted my lamp. I am terrible at it. I leave these horrific drips all over the place. So I just ask Adam to "help" me, which really means that he did the whole dang job. I just sat and watched! I love my handy husband. I'm learning to embrace the fact that he can pretty much do everything better than me!

cutting french toast

Fisher has been learning how to cut his food with his fork. So the other day I made french toast and just cut it into strips so he could practice this skill. He's doing pretty good.

Fisher growing up

This is fisher's "little glass frum grammie's house!"

Fisher came running out of the bathroom where I had heard water running. As water was splashing out of his measuring cup everywhere he exclaimed, " mom! I'm having a tea party!"
Oh so cute. My little man is growing up so fast and my heart is overwhelmed with amazement and love and bittersweet feelings. But he is also growing very independent and lets me know when he is not happy about something he is asked to do. Usually this ends with a scream of protest and a loving swat to his behind for screaming at me. He also thinks that he is big enough to pick Finley up. Yesterday he came into his room, where I was folding clothes, "holding" Finley. The problem was he was "holding" him by his neck. Poor Finley was gasping for air. I lost it and screamed at him to "put him down, put him down!" It scared me pretty bad. The look on Finley's face was one of terror. Anyway, i love him so much, but we definitely have our moments where our wills clash.