A week in Rexburg

After a few days home to unpack and recuperate from Bear Lake, Lydia and I packed up again and headed up to Rexburg. My sister, Melissa, and her three girls were visiting from Hawaii, so we wanted to go visit with them. Jen (another sister) and her baby were also staying in Rexburg (her husband is currently in Jordan), so we had the three of us and our girls together for most of a week. Rhonda (and most of her family) and Spencer (and all of his family) came up for the weekend as well. Before Rhonda arrived, there were 11 little girls in the house (13 after she came, and only 3 boys!) The granddaughters in the family greatly outnumber the grandsons. :) It was so fun to be with family and enjoy each other! We enjoyed visiting, watching the kids, playing outside, going to the splash park, and riding the carousel.  Going through the pictures on my camera, I realized I just had lots of pictures of the 3 babies (trying again and again to get a good one with them all looking and smiling) and not of anything or anyone else. They did play together (or at least keep each other entertained) better then Christmas (last time they were all together). I wish we all lived closer so we could get together more often!

Take 1. Kaitlin and Lydia took off as soon as we put them down. They were off to explore grandma's yard. Poor Sadie was left sitting all by herself. When they did come back to look at the pretty flowers, Sadie was not a fan of being patted on the head by the others. :) 

The first one here we at least caught them all looking at the camera before Lydia decided to take off again.

My parents took us all to the Teton Flood Museum one of the day we were there. It is not a huge exibit, but is pretty interesting to see and learn more about. Unfortunately Lydia was not the least bit interested in any of that, but luckily they also had a toy/activity room for the kids. This fun activity table was a big hit, they were fascinated by all the different things to do.

Cute cousins hanging out at the park!

Lydia's first carousel ride. She liked it for the first 5 minutes or so, but wanted to get off before the ride ended.

We had so much fun visiting with family but definitely missed Neal, as he stayed home to work. A few days after arriving in Rexburg, he sent me this beautiful bouquet of flowers and a sweet note! I loved it, it was a nice surprise from my wonderful husband.

We loved picking all of Grandma's fresh produce. Lydia saw the rhubarb and really wanted to have some, so I let her have a stalk. I didn't think she would like it, but she loved chewing on it!

Before we knew it, a week had almost passed and it was time to pack up and head back home. We had a great time and were a bit sad to leave, but so excited to go home and see Neal!