Laney's First Concert

A delayed birthday present! We had bought Laney tickets, on the floor, to see the Jonas Brothers (A Disney Channel Boy Band and stars of "Camp Rock") for her birthday last month. The big finally arrived last Friday and Laney was attending her first concert!

She was completely blown away when the concert started, the opening act was Jordan Sparks - an American Idol winner and then the big show began - she was totally star struck! She screamed, clapped, jumped up and down and sang along the entire time! It was so much fun to be able to see her so happy!

Dinner $18, Jonas Brother's tickets $180, Hearing Laney say it was the "best day of her life"...PRICELESS!

I love Idaho!

I'm blessed to not only have amazing friends, but generous friends. Some family friends loaned me their cabin in Sun Valley for a night... maybe they just did not want me sleeping in a tent in the rain again :) We (my friend Jodi and her two kids, and Laney and Grady) enjoyed the relaxing sounds of the river without a clock! The river was running so high that the hot springs were freezing cold, but it was beautiful scenery none the less - definitely recharged me for the week! It was a great time to reflect on why I love Idaho so much - all that our state has to offer - next time instead of the Camas Prairie route, we'll doing Galena Summit!

Father's Day

We've been helping Michael's parents with the latest adventure in their lives... a move to Boise! After 50 years of looking at the beautiful Snake River, they bought a home just 2 miles from us. This was the first Father's Day we had to drive less than 10 minutes to see them! Laney decided to snap a picture of the men in our life: Dale, Michael, Cody (Kayla's husband) and Grady. Michael got a new Weber grill and he fixed up a fabulous dinner of Flat Iron steak, shrimp and aspargus on the grill!

Summer Fun

Well, as predicted, I'm not very good at blogging. The final part of the school year just flew by - Grady graduated from pre-school, it has been a wonderful 2 years at TumbleTime Preschool and he is so ready and excited for kindergarten. Laney turned 8 and wrapped up 2nd grade, she had a fabulous teacher this year, Miss Hutchinson and is also excited about next school year - it will be fun to have both kids in school!

Summer officially begins on Sunday (Father's Day)... we've been pretty busy since school got out. Both kids are finally old enough, and certainly big enough, to not be carried and actually walk for more than 1 block - we took a walking tour of art in downtown Boise with our friends - we live in a great city and it was fun to explore!

We took our first family camping trip of the summer to Silver Creek Plunge - less than 50 miles from Boise - but it took 2 hours, 1 hour of that on a dirt road. The kids got to fish, but did not catch anything, maybe because they were bored after about 15 minutes! Our trip kind of got rained out and bugged out before the thunderstorm got too bad on Saturday night -getting home about 12:30am!