Alright, I’m back with another post in my long string of posts leading up to…..I guess the present day :)  I’m not feeling very witty or creative lately.  As far as writing blogs go I suppose.  I really want to catch you all up on everything though, so here it goes!

We left Colorado the day before Thanksgiving to give us plenty of time to make it to Burley, Idaho to be with Tyler’s mom for the holiday.  The drive was super easy, thank goodness the weather cooperated with us.  All I can say about that is this…..I’m so grateful that at the last minute I decided to keep our winter jackets instead of packing them away.  It was so dang cold out there!  So anyway, Guylia reserved the church building to hold all of the people that would be joining us for Thanksgiving.  We were able to visit with Tyler’s grandpa, his Aunt Janet’s family, his younger brother, all sorts of fun people!  The day after we were able to spend time with his Dad’s side of the family in Rupert.  We hung out, ate tons of leftovers (mostly desserts!) and then took a little trip out to the middle of no where to go shooting.  Apparently that’s very popular out there!  Heather and Tiffany, Tyler’s cousins, own TONS of guns.  And we had a “blast” out there :)

After freezing our rear ends’ off out there, we decided we  just weren’t cold enough, so we ran back into town to meet up with Tyler’s mom and her husband to go see the Square lighting.  Seriously, talk about small town!  Santa comes in on a fire truck and there’s chili and hot chocolate.  Good times, and the kids loved it!  We didn’t have any that cried when the fire works went off!

Saturday we took a tour of the Post Office in Rupert.  Tyler’s mom is a Postal Worker so she gave us the inside scoop on how mail gets sorted and ends up where it belongs.  The kids got a huge kick out of that and seeing her mail truck too!  I didn’t get any pictures of that though, so just use your imagination!  We took a trip up to Firth, ID to visit with one of Tyler’s cousins, Amber.  Well, Amber’s husband, Loren, is actually Tyler’s cousin, but whatever!  We were all at Fort Gordon together a few years back and we haven’t seen them in too long!  No pictures there either, but we had a great time!  THEN….we headed up to Idaho Falls to grab dinner and catch a performance of The Forgotten Carols.  I highly recommend seeing that if you ever have a chance, and bring lots of tissues!

And that does it for Idaho!  Monday morning we left for Washington!  Alas, that is for the next post!