Brian and Pam invited us to join them for a few days in Island Park, ID. Wow, was it great weather and beautiful scenery. We had a mad rush to fit this mini vacation into the plan, but it was very enjoyable. We headed up Sunday afternoon with trailers full of motorcycles, bicycles, fishing rods and golf clubs.
Monday, the boys went to "Two Top" on the motorcycles while Pam and Linda stayed at the house.
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| Jason playing with Nathan's new iPad |
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| Keeping connected via electronic devices |
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| Michael and Jason at the top of "Two Top" |
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| 2nd Peak behind Jason and Nathan |
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Snow and play at the top
Michael and Jason |
The girls didn't want to slow down the race to the top and we crafted a couple of key chains and did some prep work for Pam's girl camp crafts. Linda took a minute to watercolor a sunflower from a photo she took in Italy last summer.
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| Pam getting ready for girl's camp 2012 |
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| Sunflower -- rough draft |
After completely filling our bellies with watermelon and sandwiches, we headed for our tee time at the golf course. Luckily, "best ball" worked on some of the holes. Keeping ahead of the mosquitos worked for a minute, but by the end of the course, those biting, buzzing critters were ahead of the game. Pam and I ditched out early to fix dinner...
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| Jason and Nathan...yes, a picture please! |
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| Peace Man! |
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| Brian and Pam |
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| Following his swing... |
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| Michael with his new Oakleys...sweet! |
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| Jason making his putt! |
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| Nathan pulling the pin |
Tuesday morning brought blue skies and a breeze. The motos headed up Sawtelle Mtn and found a great spot to do some fishing. I'm sure Brian will be here on Wednesday.
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| Upper Coffeepot Falls--Beautiful place to fish |
Pam and I found a couple of Adirondack chairs by the river and we did a little "people watching" and book reading. At the local groc store, they had books for a $1.00 to benefit the new library. My purchase was a winner: Double Image by David Morrell. (warning: a few shades of grey parts at the end) It was a thriller suspence mystery and for randomly picking a book to read at the last minute...it ended up being a page turner...and finished in one day!
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| Pam at Henry's Fork |
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| Children at the river playing -- so fun to watch... |
Lunch and load and we were back to Logan in record time to attend the 4th of July cookout at the Merrill's and watch the fireworks with Trevor, Arica & Jordan and Celeste & Erik. Of course, Kate and Garrett and Ali Jane were the "show" for everyone. They ran after each other in a game of chase with glow stick bracelets around their ankles and clapped for all the beautiful explosions in the sky.
Happy 4th of July!
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