"If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will -- to your surprise -- miss them profoundly."

--Thomas S. Monson, 2009







Sunday, August 29, 2010

Hayden Lake, Idaho

So we took a week long trip to Hayden Lake, Idaho the last week of August. It was great! It was the first time we have been to the USA as a family, and the first time in many years for me and Ben. We went with 5 of my brothers and sisters and their families. We stayed in a nice 4 bedroom cabin with lots of extra floor space to accommodate everyone! We rented a boat from Calgary and brought it down with us. We went tubing wake boarding every day. Our cabin had a nice hot tub on the second level balcony and so it was so nice to go in that and have a beautiful view of the lake.

The shopping was great too! I had never been to Target before, but had heard all of the awesome things about it, and needless to say, I was not disappointed! I love the Carter's brand and the Circo brand of stuff that is sold there. It was the perfect timing as we were preparing for the girls to go to school. I also loved shopping at Kohl's. They were having a huge sale, and I saved 70-90% on everything I bought there, no joke! Everything seemed a lot cheaper. We could fill our van with gas for only $40! A gallon of milk was under $2. They had 2.5 L of pop for $1.00. Anyway, a lot of money was saved!

It was fun to go in the grocery store and see all of the "new" products of food they had. We saw Strawberry Milkshake Oreos, white chocolate Kit Kat bars, vanilla A+W Root beer, Chocolate Cheerios, graham cracker Goldfish, and Cherry 7 Up. We only bought and tried the Oreos and the 7 Up, and they were both very delicious!

We took SO many pictures, and since it is such a pain to upload photos on a blog, I have only added a few. Uploading photos to Facebook is so much easier and so if you want, you can go onto facebook to look at all of them. But here are a few of our memories of our trip to Idaho!

Family photo on the boat:



The whole group except Mike at dinner on the last night:


Picturesque sunsets every night:



Brayden, Robbie, and Izzy going for a tube ride:



Jodi kayaking with Braxton and Chloe:




Ben kayaking with the three older girls: