Sunday, April 24, 2011

Spring Break!!!! (Part 1)

We headed east of the mountains for Spring Break this year.
It was going to be a TRI-STATE Spring Break!!! :) 
Our first destination....Hope, Idaho.
The girls did AMAZINGLY well in the car the entire way there!!!  A whopping 460 miles!!!

We were super excited to see Grams and Gramps...it'd been since Christmas!  (Too long!)
We made it just in time for dinner!


It had been a LOOOONNNNNGGGGGGG time since I'd been at Pend Orielle Shores.  It is so beautiful!
Right on the shores of Lake Pend Orielle.


We had a blast playing at the condo.  The weather was sort of a mixed bag.  Rain, snow, SUN!
(But mostly rain.)  We had to take advantage of the sunny day while we had it!!!





Lori and Mallory came up for the day on Sunday.  It was nice spending time together as a family.





We did some crafting and LOTS of swimming in the WARM indoor pool!
Remember those nasty smelling plastic balloons we used to make as kids?  They still sell that stuff!  Mallory brought some and showed the girls how it was done! :)

We spent a LOOOOOTTTTTTTT of time in the pool.  Loved the pool.

There was an activities coordinator who planned great crafting and other fun events.
Avery made a BEAUTIFUL butterfly planter!  She painted meticulously!!!!! (No surprise!)


We took a little drive over to Montana....making it to our 3rd state! :)

We had lots of time to hang out and relax.  It was a much needed break.

And although it was a little colder than our last year's trip to Hawaii, Grams and Gramps kept the ALOHA alive with some new dresses from their trip in February!

Thanks for a memorable trip Grams and Gramps!!!!!  We love it when we get to spend time together!!!!

2 comments:

sarahmarie0730 said...

I love that picture of your girls sitting together on the chair looking at eachother...they seem like BFFs:) What is their age difference?

Joelle said...

4 years and 1 week! :)
Thanks! They are actually pretty good together! Avery has the patience of a saint! :)