I haven’t updated in awhile.  My life has been crazy around here.  I need to blog about:

Nolan B-day (May 3)

Daniel 30th B-day (May 14)

Drew 6 Month appt.

Flat Stanley

Mlynar wedding

Memorial day

Yard work(it never ends)

Hopefully by the end of May I will have all of the special events in our lives  blogged.  Wish me Luck!!!

Idaho Falls Temple

(Daniel is writing this post)

The Wedding took place Thursday April 16th at 10:30am, in the Idaho falls Temple, as seen above…and no I didn’t take that picture…but I could have

While waiting for Joey and Meagan the question was asked…”Do they plan on exchanging rings?”

For those of you that read our post, and are NOT Mormon, exchanging of rings is not something that is required for a marriage ceremony, and is something the couple may or may not chose to do doing the temple ceremony.

My mother answered ” I was told they are going to do it after” and the soon to be Mother-in-Law answered ” I was told to hold on to the ring at the temple…” On no Scoobie, we have a problem.  Just to play it safe my Mom ran to get the ring from Joe’s car only to figure out in the parking lot, that Joe had given the ring to Ben, our youngest brother, for safe keeping…a great plan, except Ben was running late.  It all turned out ok, as I said before the rings are not as important to a Mormon wedding, and they where able to exchange them after the ceremony. They did, however, share there first kiss…as Man and Wife, over the alter, a long kiss, a really long kiss, it was so long I thought we might miss our flight home.

After the wedding there was the normal group photos, family photos, and couple photos on the temple grounds and down by the World Famous Idaho Falls (actually I’m not sure if they are world famous, maybe just locally famous)

After the photos, we met up at one of the 300 church buildings in and around Idaho Falls for a family lunch, a place to eat and mingle with the two families that had just become related. Interestingly Sarah Managed to make her way into the photos..?  We got there a little late due to the 2 lasagnas that were in the oven and needed to be cooked before the lunch but after the wedding.

The next day was the open house..no it was a reception…no wait an open house…or was it a reception…?

No one could decide on exactly what to call it, for me it was an open house, a reception has an itinerary, a program of sorts, oh but wait…there was sort of a program at the end…I’m so confused.  What ever the “official” title was, it was a lot of fun, there was food, home-made root beer, cake, and music…just no dancing. The room was pretty, the lights didn’t fall down, and there was a nice slide show of Joe and Meagan growing up.  Sometime during the night a bunch of hulagins decided to decorate Joe’s car…they did a good job too.  As the night winded down, there was the cutting of the cake, catching of the bouquet (caught by Sam, my youngest sister), the throwing of the garter (not caught by any one), and the opening of the presents.  It was a lovely evening, and I wish Joe and Meagan the best…

One of the best parts of vacation for Nolan and Lucas was staying at Great Grandma and Grandpa Hills house. G-Gma owns a TON of Little People.  They have homes, airplanes, boats, cars and people out the wa-zoo. G-Gma Hill has a HUGE chest that she keeps all of them in and he (Nolan)  remembered from June 2007 exactly where they were.  Nolan and Lucas would spend every extra second they had playing with them while we were at their home.

Before we left to go to Idaho, Nolan asked if we were going to see “that lady with all the little people” (his exact words!) I told him not only were we going to see G-Gma Hill but that was the house we were staying at.  He got a HUGE smile on his face and immediatly began to talk about how he was going to play with them.

Thanks Gma Hill for holding onto these “special toys” for when my boys to come visit.

On a Monday we decided to head to the temple in Idaho Falls and walk around, go to DI with the kids (this is something they love to do while we are in ID), and go to Desseret Book (a place I wanted to go too).

After much shopping, we still had some time before we need to be back for the BBQ so we decided to go walk near and around the falls just across the street from the temple.  They are amazing.  The kids had so much fun walking along the trails and going down to the water.  The weather was perfect!  I could’ve stayed for hours walking around the whole thing but we need to get back to dinner. I was happy to eat but sad to cut it short.  It was so nice out walking with Daniel and the kids and not worrying about our everyday chores and such..

Have you heard of these?

Minneola Tangelos

I hadn’t until I was in the Idaho Falls Walmart the day we were getting our plane ride food.  We were in the fruit section saw these.  Neither Daniel or myself had ever seen these.  Has anyone ever had one?

The day before we came home from Idaho we went to Wal-mart to get some items for our sack lunches for the plane ride back to Detroit.  While walking down the snack isle looking for the CHEEZ-ITS I found this-

I said  “WHAT!?” right out loud.  In this 8ft section of nasty, I want to vomit, Cheese Nips was one little lousy box of Cheez-its! I looked at Daniel and said ” Are they for Real?” There had to have been at least 200 boxes of Cheese Nips and in the middle of all of these boxes,  was ONE box of Cheez-its.

I guess the great residents of Idaho keep Cheese Nips brand in business. There is no comparison at all for me.  Cheese Nips will never,  I say never,  be as good as Cheez-its-  NEVER!!!

I, of course, snatch that ONE little box, that was feeling lost and alone, right up for the our plane ride home.