Friends Reunited.

 My good friend Shelly, back in Minnesota happens to be from Idaho Falls.

She gave me some good insider info when I moved here.

Shelly and her kiddos came to visit for the holidays and we were able to meet up and have some fun!

She has twins, Kylee and Brandon's age, they were also in the same kindergarten class.

Two sets of twins in the same place is quite the combination!

Thanks for the fun reunion.

A Visit with the Browns.

 Our good friends, the Browns were out from Minnesota visiting their family, so we were able to spend a day with them. It was so much fun to get together with friends from "back home".

The girls had so much fun. It was like time hadn't passed at all.

A dog pile of friends.

The boys! Gotta love little rough and rowdy boys.

I am so glad they took some time out of their trip to spend some time with us.

Now we are praying that they come and move here too! :)

Camping outside is scary...

 
(My title is sort of an inside joke... I can't help thinking about that saying when I hear the word camping. It's a Joeyism from our childhood days. pretty much an awesome song he made up..hehe!)
We are back from our camping in the wilderness! Well, that is the beauty of Minnesota, cause we were only miles from town, but it felt like we were 100 miles away from the hustle and bustle of a metropolis! And thankfully so, we did not have enough bug spray, so Bonnie volunteered to go get more. Man those mosquitoes were bad!
We spent a lot of time doing this:

 Here are all the ladies! Aren't we just the most beautiful bunch of camping ladies you ever did see!?

This is not how I envisioned these pictures, but alas with my nice camera out of commission, I didn't get as many as I wanted, cause my old one doesn't do so well at night:

The next morning we were up bright and early for breakfast! It was a warm day, so Annie and I took off as soon as we could for a good run. Good thing we had our water belts, cause the sun was blazing!

The kids enjoyed the wonderful breakfast that the Dad's so graciously cooked!

Can't wait to do it again next year!