Thanksgiving Trip To Idaho

Dave's brother, Jake, and his family moved to Moscow, Idaho in Aug. to attend Law School at the University of Idaho. They used to live only about an hour away from us and now are about 11 hours away. They also had a baby boy about 5 weeks ago so we decided a trip to see them for Thanksgiving was a perfect idea. Even though the trip was long, we are both glad that we got to spend 3 days with them!

We even had the pleasure of seeing Dave's sister, Ann, and her family for a day. They used to live about an hour and a half away from us, but about two months ago moved to Vancouver, Washington. They made the 6 1/2 hour trip to Moscow from Vancouver for the weekend.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day filled with GREAT food and good conversation. Jake and Megan were great hosts and made sure we were well fed! They had just purchased their own Wii so "the boys" were entertained pretty much the entire weekend. They invited some of their friends over for Thanksgiving as well and these friends brought their Guitar Hero game to play on the Wii. I have to admit that I did have a good time playing that!

Uncle Dave & Gwen


Aunt Holly & New Baby Ira


Holly, Gwen & Ira


Guitar Hero Stud

Concentrating hard

This video is really dark, but if you look closely you can see Gwen dancing in front of the television. She is dancing to the music on Guitar Hero.

On Black Friday, Jake and Dave made two trips to Shopko and two trips to Wal-Mart, but didn't really buy anything. They were just window shopping. I had to work a little bit that day so Dave was able to spend some alone time with his brother. The second trip to both of those stores included me so they could show me what they found. We also wanted to get a present for Gwen since her birthday party was on Saturday.

Saturday morning the entire crew decided to venture out for breakfast at Shari's. The food took so long to finally come out to us that the children had long since moved on to other forms of entertainment...running around the restaurant! It was fun to have everyone together and to watch the cousins playing together. You could tell they all missed each other!!!

The rest of the day was filled with Wii entertainment, more shopping and Gwen's 2nd birthday party. Everyone was worn out by the end of the day, but it was a good day!

Gwen opening presents

We left yesterday morning and made the 11 hour trip back home. I absolutely love going on road trips especially to brand new places, but I always love to come home as well. We made this trip without our dogs (our neighbors kindly watched them for us) so by Sunday I was ready to see them again as well. On the trip home I took some pictures of the scenery. I thought the drive would be much more interesting, but really there was only one part of the entire trip that was absolutely beautiful, the Payette National Forest. These are pictures from that part of the trip.

Thanks again Jake and Megan for letting us come visit you! We know your lives are busy right now and we appreciate your taking time out of your busy schedules for us! You guys were great hosts. Also, thanks Ann and Justin for coming over to see us as well although we know Ira was more of the reason for the trip than us (wink wink)!