Easter at the cabin

For Easter we went to a cabin in Island Park.  We loved this cabin it was called the Buffalo River cabin.  We loved the open kitchen and living area.  We all had a great time together.  It just happened to be conference weekend so that was great to get to watch conference as a family.  We played games, ate, watched TV, ate, played more games, ate, ate, and ate.

 Kandice was a little sleepy.

 Aint that a pretty face:)

 Kendall pondering on the mexican food he was making.

 Oh Matt looks real good.  It's a good thing he's engaged.

 Alli looking a little grouchy

 Posing for a picture.

 Oh real nice Alli.  I don't even want to know what she was eating.

 Rachel's like are you kidding me.

 I don't think Kandice wants to share the couch

 Matt is also a little sleepy I wonder what these two have been up to that makes them so tired.

 The funniest thing happened but it was a little scary too.  Brenan is always putting people in head locks.  Dave was sitting at the bar eating almonds and Brenan put him a head lock.  Dave immediately fell to the ground unconcious.  Rachel started screaming and everyone just stood there.  I wasn't paying attention and didn't see what had happened.  I ran over and started shaking him and saying his name.  I thought maybe he had had a heart attack.  He finally looked at me and said what are you doing.  We started to laugh.  Rachel was real shook up but Brenan was really nervous.  He said doesn't he know he is supposed to tap out.  Dave had never passed out before and thought it was pretty cool.  Brenan kept making me check on him through the night because he was afraid he had damaged him.  It scared all of us for a little while. 

 It was March madness and the TV didn't have the channel we needed to watch.  Kendall was a little torqued he had to watch it on his lap top.

 Matt and Kandice cooking breakfast

 Dave vacuuming we always want to get a picture of Dave doing housework.

 Easter morning everyone enjoying the Easter egg hunt.  When you put cash in the eggs everyone looks really hard.

 Brenan still hunting for eggs

 It snowed and snowed up there.  It was so pretty to watch it snow in the trees all day.  Dave and Kendall going out to ride.

We absolutely loved the cabin and had such a great time.

The bis proposal

The big proposal.  Matt asked Kandice to marry him tonight.  We had a great plan.  We had made up poems to direct her to different places.  It started with a note on her pillow that told her to shut off the lights and get in bed.  This is what she saw when she did that

 She was then told to go to her car and inside her car was a dozen roses that then directed her to the temple where Matt was waiting.  It was all done with really cute rhyming poems from their dating time. 

Here we are waiting for Kandice to come out to her car.  We wanted to get the whole thing on tape but we didn't do so good with that.  The funny part was she was so excited she didn't see the very nervous Matt standing on the sidewalk at the temple and drove right past him and out of the parking lot.  She had forgotten her cell phone.  She finally came back and leaped into his arms from the parking lot.  It's a good thing he is tough because she could have knocked him right over.  We then left and gave them a little privacy.  Oh by the way she said yes.

Brenan's chicks

Brenan decided he wanted to raise chickens.  He got the chicks but didn't get the warmer lamp to go with them so this is his ingenous way to keep them warm.  This is a light in his bedroom so he stacked everything up and set the tupperware, that he is keeping his chicks in, up under his light. 

He thinks he is going to have meat and eggs for us.  We'll see how this all turns out.

Fun at the Robison's

Well another week at the Robisons has passed.  Last Sunday night we were all sitting around and Allison said she had a fun new game to play called Ninja.  Well if you can tell by the picture it was quite funny.  They even got Dave up and in the game.  It looks like Alli is out of this round.

Its either Ninja or Dave is trying out for cheerleader.

Kandice might be doing the Village Peoples YMCA.

Rachel said HE"S SAAAFE!!

On Monday night Dave had invited the bishopric over for family home evening.  Dave has really missed the singles branch for this reason.  We had to have family home evening every Monday.  Dave couldn't wait to get the kareoke out and show off his singing skills.  Here's the Bishop and 1st counselor doing a little Bon Jovi

Dave's kind of a moving picture taker

Trying hard Byron and his daughter McKenna

Bishop singing with his girls Shaylee and Alexa

Brenan and Alli thinking our bishopric might be a little over the edge.  We had a fun night.  It was fun having people over for family home evening again.  I think Dave wants to make it a regular occurance.

Playing catch up!

Well I am going to play catch up so if you don't have hours to spend reading my blog you might want to  come back when you do j/k.  Well we will start with the Super Bowl.  After much deliberation I finally decided to have a party.  Here are the kids enjoying cinnamon rolls with poor Tosh looking in and wishing we would just let her in.  I think she would even eat a cinnamon roll if we would let her.

Heres Melanee cleaning the window after the cinnamon roll eating.  They made me take her picture because she was cleaning.

Here we are a couple Sundays ago.  We were evidently bored because Kaden and Kendall decided to see if they could eat 7 saltine crackers in 2 minutes.  I challenge you all to try this.  Kendall is giving it his all Dave is such a proud father-in-law

Here they are showing off what was left after their two minutes were up.  They tried it again with cheese between them and they could do that.  If your bored at home try this exciting challengeWe decided we would go to Boise to watch Hailey play in the State Tournament.  Me, Kendall, Rachel, Kandice (Matt's girlfriend), Brenan, Alli (Brenan's girlfriend) and Kaden went.  We had a great time Here we are waiting to have dinner with Melanee, Marcy and grandma.  Kaden is a little tired and Kandice smiling as usualBrenan looks a little tired too I would wonder what they had been up to but they were in my room so I know they were sleeping ha haMarcy, Mel and grandma were heading home  but we were staying another day.  We decided to do Mexican before they leftMe and Mel

 Brenan, Allie and Kaden after eating all you can eat enchiladas (except Alli) they didnt even come close to the recordKendall looks thrilled doesn't he.  He had the all you can eat also maybe he's in pain

Allie pulling a face or maybe trying to kiss BrenanMarcy and Kandice.  Marcy I put the good picture on but still have the other for blackmail.  I think Kandice must be thinking about how much she misses Matt!!The car after doing some shopping.  We didn't have room when we left Rigby let alone after shoppingHere we are on our way home doesn't Kendall look thrilled I think he was holding my new crockpot.On to the next adenture in our lives was Alli's birthday.  Her parents were out of town so we adopted her for the night.  We went to Bajio's and then to play laser tag.  This is her, Kaden and Rachel trying to be all gangsta.  Here we all are after our laser tag.  It was pretty fun.  It was my first time and I got the most accurate.  Brenan won overall and Dave was the loser.  He said everyone just followed him around shooting him. 

We then went to Alli's house to do the cake.  I made her brownies and figured she could take the rest to her apartment.  Here's Rachel and I putting 19 candles in the brownies

 

19 years oldI hope this picture doesn't mean the brownies are yucky.  Of course they arent.  Alli showing us how good the really are

OK you are probably definetely wondering what this picture is about.  When we were in Boise I bought these pants for Kendall for a penny and told him he had to wear them to breakfast the next day.  We forgot and left them in the car so when they came out on Sunday this was what we got to see.  Rachel doesn't look to sure about the whole deal.  I think deep down he really liked the pants.  He is definetely sparkling.  They are all sequins in case you are wondering.  So there is our life for the last little while. 

Pictures from Jerusalem

Well we'll see if this works.  I took over 500 pictures so here's about half of them.  They probably won't mean a lot without description but you can at least look.

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Back from the Holy Land

What an amazing experience I had.  I loved Jerusalem.  I would love to go back in a few years.  I think it will take that long to recover from the plane ride.  We seen so much stuff that it was very tiring.  We would go from 7:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. most days. I had 5 favorites.  The Garden of Gethsemane was awesome.  There is a church that is in part of the place now.  They build Cathedrals everywhere that something good happened.  These tend to take away from the spiritual aspect but at the Garden of Gethsemane there is part of it that is locked up that not everyone gets to go in.  We got to got in it and it was amazing.  The spirit was definitely there.  We had a little devotional and then we had time to find somewhere to sit on our own and either read scriptures or just sit and enjoy.  It is a beautiful little garden.  After going there we went straight to Sacrament Meeting at the Jerusalem Center.  It has huge windows that overlook the whole city of Jerusalem.  That is their chapel so you look over the city while listening to the speakers.  We sang There Is a Green Hill Far Away but we had just been there.  It was quite the experience.  Another of my favorites was the Garden Tomb.  The Catholics believe this all happened somewhere else and built a cathedral over it but our prophets have said that the Garden Tomb is the place.  I got to go inside the tomb and see where Jesus was laid.  It was a beautiful peaceful place to be.  The wailing wall was another of my favorites.  Just to see how devoted the Jewish people are to their religion was very interesting.  It was so interesting to watch them pray and think they needed to be by the wall.  Another of my favorites was Nazareth.  They have made a place called Nazareth Village that they have recreated a huge area that is just like it would have been in Jesus day.  I learned so much here that I couldn't believe it.  My last favorite was Galilee.  We were here for two days and it was a great experience to see all the places that Jesus performed miracles and to go out on the Sea of Galilee.  We seen so much more but these were my favorite spots.  John and Kim Bytheway were on our tour so each night as we got back to the hotel we had a fireside given by him or Jim Gee our leader.  I really learned a lot about the scriptures at each of these.  I am a visual learner so seeing all the places that Jesus was has really opened the scriptures for me.  I suggest this trip to everyone.  I never felt nervous or felt unsafe.  It was great.  I would post pictures if I could figure out how to do a slideshow of them but I don't know how to do that.