Spring Break

Last year for Spring Break we traveled to Seattle and had a great time.  This year we stayed home and many people traveled to see us instead!  It was a lot of fun to have most of my family here from Idaho Falls.  We missed Scott, Traci, & Enoch – who are expecting a baby any day – and, of course, Jackson who is in Peru.  Otherwise, everyone else (all 21 of us) was in Coeur d’Alene this past week!  We had a full house and enjoyed having everyone here to celebrate Kanyon’s baptism.  

The fun started on Tuesday, March 20.  Mom and Courtney came in one car with Courtney’s kids and Jake and Jana came in another car with their kids.  My kids were so happy to see them all here! We had a fun evening and settled everyone in to their sleeping quarters for the week (Jake and Jana stayed with Neil and Kay – Thank you!!)  On Wednesday, Leonard had to work and I had a class in the morning that I had to go to so it was nice to have in-house babysitters.  It rained most of the day that day but the kids didn’t care.

Riley, Miranda, Tarek

They were all outside in the rain/hail/snow and had a good, wet time. 

Markell, Andre, and Archimedes made it up Wednesday from Moscow.  On Thursday we all headed to Triple Play.  We planned to spend the day there and we had a great time.  This is where the picture overload will start – thanks to Courtney and her new camera which I now covet  

First up was bowling!

Miranda

Archimedes

Mom/Grandma Fuller

Riley and Jana

Kanyon – in action

Timberlyn – right before she fell asleep!

Sweet Miranda girl

Miranda and MomTarek

Kaydra – my lefty

After about an hour of bowling – my mom beat us all the first game – we headed to Rock climbing.

Tarek

Kanyon

Kaydra

Kalli

Riley

Miranda

Jake

Brooke – I totally could not climb the wall – a little embarrassing!

After a little climbing we played laser tag – no pictures of that – and also a little mini-golf on a pretty boring course.  At least it was a quick round!

About this time we were all starving and luckily it was time for lunch!  We had reserved a room and had planned to have pizza.  It was actually pretty good pizza and was a nice break from the constant noise that is Triple Play.

Sage (Jake’s baby) and Timberlyn

the kids – waiting for pizza!

After we were all satisfied from lunch we changed our clothes and headed to Raptor Reef – the indoor water park at Triple Play. I don’t have any pictures of that but it was lots of fun.  We played there for about three hours.  It was a busy day but the kids had a blast and since it rained all day AGAIN it was good to have something to do with them indoors. 

Paul, Dad, Dan, and Dreyken were able to come to Coeur d’Alene that night.  By then we had 21 people at my house most of the time.  It reminded me of the days we used to have at the cabin with all the cousins.  I have many memories of those days and I hope my kids think of this spring break as fondly as I do of those days at the cabin. We were glad everyone could come. 

On Friday, Grandpa, Jake and Dan took the kids to the movie while Leonard and Paul stayed home with Sage and Timberlyn and the girls went to town with Archimedes.  It was fun to window shop and have a little time without all the kids.  Thanks guys!

Satuday was another day at home and getting ready for the baptism.  I think I’ll do a separate post about that.   We did find time to dye some Easter Eggs.

Jake and Riley

Kalli

Kaydra and Kalli – these two get along so well

Kaydra

Miranda

Brooke and Miranda

Dreyken and Courtney

Kanyon

Tarek and Kanyon

Dreyken and Tarek

Grandma and Timberlyn

Archimedes and Andre

The final product!

All in all we had a really good time and are so thankful for the wonderful family that we are tied together with.  Thank you all for coming and spending some time with us in Coeur d’Alene.  Come again soon!!