This is driving around in Rexburg. Which wasn't very safe-my Dad and I soon found out-on Mon. night when we were "slip slidding away" to go to the post office and almost slid down into the potatoe field. It was scary when I'm telling Dad to brake-and he was-and we just kept slidding!!!
My parents' backyard. Mon. and Tues. the wind was going crazy. Holly and Carson were excited about the snow on Mon. and were outside for 5 min. After that, Carson was crying and they were both complaining that it was too cold! So-we didn't get to make a snowman, have a snowball fight, or go sledding because it was just freezing!
Looks like the beach-NO that was how windy it was and its SNOW!!!
So- the kids had lots of fun playing inside at Grandma and Grandpa Jones'. All the cousins got together and played ALL day long down in the basement and kids playroom (where they are in this picture).
Even the bigger kids had fun. Here we are playing Just Dance 2 Wii game. It is so fun and a workout!
Wed. night Nicole, Jason, and Katie came to visit and had to leave early Thurs. I'm so glad we got to see them too.
Thanksgiving day-I got the kids dressed all nice and wanted to take pictures. They were so goofy!
We took maybe 30 pictures-after Shelby stopped crying and trying to get all 3 of them to look good in the pictures! Here's what we got.
I really like this one!
Shelby was starting to get fussy again-so got Chris with the kids.
Thanksgiving dinner-the kids' table
the adult table
Shelby-hanging out after dinner. She did so great this trip! Her first trip away from home. The longest car ride ever-and she did really good considering.
FRI. morning-lazy day. Black Friday-Denise went out shopping all morning and slept all afternoon-along with Shelby.
The kids played all day. Kim made sugar cookies and the kids got to frost a bunch of cookies. 
Chris drew on all of the kids' hands and arms. The kids colored, played hide-n-go-seek, etc.
Here you go-showing off their "arm art" (not Tattoos!)Friday was our last full day there. We left Sat. morning for home!
We stopped in Boise at Donnie Mac's Trailer Park Cuisine. This place was featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. We searched it out and I am so glad we did. It was the neatest place! Great food, great atmosphere, and friendly/good service. 
This is out front. 
The owner took our picture. They let us eat in the car they have inside. It was a '4os Chevy sedan that had a table in it. You could write on the inside. Carson liked that because he got to color on the car!
Trying the frozen custard called "open road". They call them Muds-so I kept telling Carson he was eating mud! 
The front of the place-they have tires as flower pots. I bet this guy really enjoyed decorating the joint.
SEE-the food network-Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives was here!
This is on the side wall in the parking lot! Ok-so after our fun in Boise then it was back on the road. After Boise we hit bad weather! We had snowy weather all the way to Pendleton. We drove 12 hours on Sat. and stayed in La Grande. We tried putting on snow chains Sat. night and realized we had the wrong size. Poor Chris was out in the freezing snow, along the side of the freeway, trying to put on snow chains. Since they didn't fit we just drove on and went 20-30 mph.
This is what it looked like Sat. night. Then Sun. morning it was all snowy. We went to Wal-Mart, bought chains, and spent 3 hours putting them on and trying to get them to fit. We also helped another couple put chains on their sedan, which-they slid into a guard rail earlier and munched the front end of their rental. Then Chris just took the chains off our car and we drove over Deadman's Pass and went 20-30 mph again. We got on the road at 11 am Sun. and got home at 10:30pm. Two full days of driving home. We had a nice relaxing time with my family. Holly and Carson really enjoyed playing with all their cousins there. I hated driving in the snow and don't think I want to do that again. The snow storm seemed to follow us to Idaho and back to Oregon. But once we got passed Pendleton the road was clear and the view along the Columbia River was beautiful! I'm grateful we made it home safe!
