Memorial Day in Idaho

Saturday morning we woke up to a moose (baby or yearling) trying to cross the Snake River.

Cruz and I drove up to Idaho with my mom on Wednesday May 20th for the long weekend. We had a lot to do to get the summer home in Swan Valley ready for company this summer. Cruz did great on the drive up! On Thursday we spent the whole day cleaning, weeding, raking, putting the swing set up, etc. We worked really hard and Cruz was such a trooper. He played really well right along side of me or tried to help in his own cute way. On Friday the 3 of us drove up to Jackson Hole to get a few things at the hardware store and Kmart for the cabin. Grandma R took us to a nice lunch before we headed back to Swan Valley. We continued to work hard cleaning the deck and patio and cooking. Daddy arrived at about 5 on Friday evening. Cruz was very excited to see daddy, since for 2 days he would ask, "where's daddy?". Rebecca came up with some friends late Friday night and Cruz had fun the rest of the weekend trying to get his "new friends" to laugh at him. Really, Cruz is such a little ham! On Saturday we again worked in the yard, put the trampoline up, got the boat summer ready, and worked. It seems like fun work though....it is so pretty up there and it was such a beautiful temperature! Saturday afternoon the mountain clouds rolled in though, and we got some rain showers and the temperature cooled about 15 degrees. Sunday was not great weather, gray, cool, and rainy. We went to church in the morning and then drove over to Jackson Hole for something to do. We found a nice park for Cruz to play at and luckily the rain stayed a way for a little. On Monday the skies cleared and we had some nice weather again. We decided to take the boat out to make sure everything was working well. It was fun to get out on the lake. I wasn't crazy enough to get in the water, but leave it up to Shawn, he was!! The water was literally freezing!!! On Sunday night, Shawn also did a beautiful hike up close to baldy peak. I thought he was crazy for going because ti was getting dark, but he had a fabulous time. Overall, it was a very productive weekend.

My mom went back to SLC on Sunday night so she could leave flowers at my dads grave on Monday. I still really can't believe he isn't with us. Going up to Swan Valley sometimes makes me really sad because I know how much he loved it there, but then sometimes I just get this sense that my dad definitely checks in on Swan Valley and how we are doing there....I do feel close to him when I am up there!


Before Shawn started his hike up Baldy Mountain Sunday night, he took these pictures of this beautiful rainbow.

We saw lots of moms and babys-cows, horses, geese, birds, it was so fun to watch them!

After lots of play and work Cruz was pretty tired on the way home. This is the only picture I got of him this weekend, I was bad about getting my camera out!!