Sun Valley Trip

For the past 3 years our Simplot field man has invited us to the Simplot cabin for a few days of skiing and spa!  It is one of my favorite trips of the year.  Kids under 18 cant go, but nursing babies can.  I like this policy because it is fun to hang out with the siblings and spouses with out too many children.  Although we had 5 babies go this year!  We have had a baby boom in the Telford family!

Wynn liked sitting up in Presely’s bumbo.  He isnt quite ready for sitting up yet!

Jake is competing at the worlds greatest horseman competition.  It was fun to tune into it and watch him together.

This year all of the families on the farm went along with Tyler and Lain.  Bob and Sara just came up for the ski/spa day, her baby is brand new and she didn’t want to be away from home.  We stayed up way too late and had a great time!

Quick Trip to WYO

The kids and I drove to Wyoming for Renton’s baptism.  It was fun to play with cousins!

We swam and swam at the hotel in the desert.

One of the McDonalds had saddles for chairs!  That was pretty neat!

Claire packed the lipstick!

It was good to get back home too! 

Coeur d’Alene Trip

We made our way to Spokane for our annual Northwest Farm Credit meetings.  This year the meetings were at the Coeur d'Alene resort.  We have stayed there once before, it is a great place. 

In the streets they have these giant feathers, by the time I got the camera out to take the picture we got to the last one and it had been knocked over, but they are giant feathers!

At the resort there is a huge fish tank with big ol fish in it.  We were like kids watching those monsters!  They were quite fascinating!

The morning view out to the lake, a snow storm came in which was good, the fog cleared off and we had a beautiful view!

This time Ryan upgraded us to a corner room with a fireplace!  It was fun until we couldn’t get the fire to turn off!  It wasn’t too hot, it was just to bright to try and sleep with.  Being the MacGyver that he is, he got a hanger out of the closet and reached into the fire to turn the valve off!?  Crazy man!

The kids are getting really anxious to fly so I tried to take a few pictures in flight, and of the plane.  It made them want to fly even more!  I am not a real fan of flying….  maybe we just don’t do it enough?   But it makes me nervous, and annoyed every time!

It was a great trip as always!  They wine and dine us and Ryan really enjoyed the meetings.  I really enjoyed the shopping!  Until next year!

Ag Show Pocatello

We really like walking around at the Ag show.  The kids love the big tractors, and Holt Arena.  Ashley took some pictures way up at the top!

Pretty big “tractor show”  that’s what we call it!  We had a great little trip, cant wait to do it again next year!

Pocatello Winter Trip

The kids LOVE going to Pocatello every winter.  We tried really hard to not go this year and they were NOT going to have that!  We luckily could still get a room at our favorite hotel.  The kids swim and swim, Ryan brings pizza and we go to the Ag show at ISU.  It is a fun little tradition.  We even get cousins to go with us sometimes!

The girls are great help with all the little kids.  I didn’t even have to get in the frigid water!  We love this tradition!

HOME!

We were glad to be home from our trip to San Antonio.  We spent HOURS in the airport on the way home.  It was quite torturous!  After we recouped for a few days we were happy to be home doing laundry and playing.  All the good things!

I don’t know how many times the kids told me I was a good track builder.  It was pretty cute!

Touring The City

We pretty much covered all the ground we could and saw everything we could with in walking distance on Friday.  We watched the Alamo and went on the tour of it, we saw all of the historical sites we could.  The weather warmed up and it was nice to walk around.  It was a good day.

Remember the ALAMO!

This was a cool church, they wanted to tear it down to build the mall, the owner wouldn’t sell so the mall went up around it!  I was glad they left it standing.

The rainforest café.

Lunch on the river.

We were sad to see the day and trip end.  It was nice to be together for a few days alone.  I liked SA quite a bit!  We were there in the slow season, and during the week, two things that are a must for visiting there! 

Day 2 San Antonio

We spent most of the day in meetings and then took a boat ride on the river.  It is THE THING to do when you go to San Antonio.  Everyone who had been there before told us to do it.  The whole down town area is on top of it, so we really couldn’t avoid it if we tried.  It was fun to walk along every day, we enjoyed it. 

This was the tunnel where we got on our little boat.

some of the scenery.

We spent the rest of the night at the party from our meetings.  They had an extremely loud band and too many people for the small space, but the food was good, once we got some….  We were happy to have it end! HA!