Shoshone Falls

For spring break this year the kids and I decided to drive over to Oregon so that we could see more of Shawn.  Shawn and I also planned to show them the house we were buying for the first time.  This was a very memorable trip! ( and let's remember that memorable things are not always so pleasant when we are in the present experiencing them):D

First of all we decided to take the Kami and Caden's car, which we fondly refer to as "Granny" since she is actually really roomy and very comfortable to drive in.  We took her, because it was either drive her over or not go at all.  Shawn had taken the Suburban back for some reason or other.  I think he hauled a load of our stuff over or something like that.  Anyways, Granny was short one seat so a couple of the kids had to double buckle, making four kids riding in the back and three people in the front.

It worked out great, but the kids had it all arranged about what they would quickly do should anyone suddenly see a policeman!  Abram was the designated person to hurriedly cover himself with a blanket so that he would just look like "an extra pile of pillows" thrown into the car:

We heard that Shoshone Falls was really flowing great, so we decided to stop there on the way.  We had to stop on the way in to pay a fee and we really got the giggles with this going on in the back!:

So very inconspicuous!

We never received the memo about how being down by the falls was like standing in a heavy rainstorm... we all looked completely like drowned muskrats in no time; it was really roaring!  Dripping wet hair and everything.  But the falls really were beautiful!!

I don't remember everything we did on this trip because it's been too long since I wrote.  But I DO remember this Saturday evening after conference.  We had shown the kids the new house and taken them to the park right by it for a picnic lunch right after. After lunch the kids discovered the  dizzying yellow merry-go-round and played on it for quite some time.  Then we took them to the local fitness facility and signed up and went swimming.  Before we knew it, it was time for dinner and Nolan said he still felt dizzy from the merry-go-round...  see that unhappy little face?:

He couldn't bring himself to eat much of anything.  The rest of us finished eating and then we got into the Suburban for the 1 1/2 hour drive back to my parents house.  About half way between Pendleton and LaGrande, Nolan sat up and said, "stop the car!"  Then he proceeded to vomit up and down Isabelle.  She was covered from head to toe. Isabelle was livid, Nolan felt bad, and the rest of us had to laugh because what else could we do? It has become a whole lot funnier with time to ALL of us.  Oh, the adventures we had during this move.