Weekend in Rexburg

Well this weekend we went over to Rexburg for Memorial Day weekend. We stayed with Jake's brother Clay and his family. There were a total of 11 people in Clay and Madeline's house. 5 couples and Clay's son Landon. Speaking of Landon, he is so cute! He likes to take my cell phone a flip through the pictures and also turn it on and off and watch the Verizon Wireless logo go on and off. He thought that was so much fun and it was so fun to watch him play with it!

Jake and I left Friday night around 5 from Boise and we made it in almost exactly 4 hours. We got to Clay's house around 9 and we were the first ones there. Kristin and her boyfriend were next followed by Mike and his wife Elena. (Something really cool about Elena is that she is from Russia! She and Mike met online and she moved here when they got married in December! Pretty cool huh?) After Mike and Elena got there, Bryce and his wife Audrey came and they brought Clay and Madeline's new Siberian Husky puppy with them. It was a full house! 

All weekend we were trying to come up with a good name for the new puppy. She came with the name Coda but Clay felt like that was too much of a boys name. We eventually came up with Kya. She is the most gorgeous dog I have ever seen. Clay breeds Huskies so Kya is the new "puppy machine". He has a pure white Siberian named Duke and a Malamute Husky named Angel. He just sold his last two puppies from the Angel/Duke litter and they were way cute. The mix is called an Alusky and they were the most adorable puppies. I am excited to see what the pure Siberians look like as puppies. Kya is only 5 months old so it will be a while before she will be able to have puppies but she will and they will be adorable just like their mommy :)

Kya is black and white and has the most gorgeous bright blue eyes. Here's a picture isn't she cute!?

So now that my schpeel about Kya is done I will continue with the weekend festivities. 

Saturday morning everyone but Madeline and I went to the Ice Caves. They said they had a blast! I should have probably gone with them but I really really do not like tight enclosed spaces. Jake said he will take me sometime so I will be able to go but I didn't want to have a panic attack in front of all those people so I stayed home with Madeline and Landon. While we were there it started raining really hard and the window started to leak. Madeline and I put cups on the window sill to catch the water and we probably emptied the 4 cups at least 5 times each. We were using the little styrofoam cups but still, there was a lot of water coming in! After that excitement, Madeline went a laid down to take a nap. She's having a baby in September so I told her she should go lay down and not to worry about me because I had a book that I have been working on reading for almost a year now. She went to sleep and I read my book and then everyone came back.

We went to Big Juds for dinner that night and it was YUMMY!!!! Jake and I split the Big Jud Special which is a 1 lb. hamburger the size of a plate! It was so delicious but I could only finish 1/4 of it. We took the rest home and shared it after church on Sunday. Even the left overs were yummy! Anyway after Big Juds we all came home and then Jake and I went to get a couple of movies for us all to watch. We got the new Muppets movie which was.....interesting to say the least. It was good but it was more of a laugh at it movie than a laugh with it movie. We also got We Bought A Zoo which is such a great movie! I highly recommend it! We watched the Muppet movie and then determined it was time for bed.

Sunday we went to church and afterwards came back to the house. Bryce and Audrey had to leave right after sacrament meeting to go see his sister who lives in Victor, Idaho (the same place as my wonderful Aunt Karen :) ) and Mike and Elena had to leave around 5 to get back to Utah in time to pick up their daughter from the in-law's. That left Kristin and her boyfriend Jonathan and Jake and I. Monday morning we all got up and went out to kayak in the slew by Clay's house. It was fun to just kind of meander around in the kayaks. Kristin and Jonathan wanted to kayak to the river with Clay so while they were doing that Jake and I went into town in his trusty dirt bike (i love that thing). We picked up a few things from the storage unit, went to see where our new apartment is going to be and had lunch with some friends that are still there. It was very fun and much needed. We both miss Rexburg so much which is totally weird to say. It feels so good to go back and it will be nice when we get to have our own apartment again :)

We got back to Jake's house and roasted hotdogs and marshmallows in the fire pit in the back yard and then packed up to come back to Boise. It was a great weekend and I am so glad we were able to get out of town and do something fun!


Btw, here is a little video for your viewing pleasure of our adorable nephew Landon. He was having so much fun flipping over Clay's leg that I had to get a video of it!

See ya next time!