Idaho-day 3- Silverwood

Getting ready to head in to the park.

1st Carousal ride

Grayson and Ty

Lex and Dada

We got "robbed" for charity on our train ride.

Practicing her wave

Checking out some anamials along the way.

The wedding took place in Silverwood Theme Park, so we had free tickets for all day Saturday and Sunday. We got to park early to try out some of the rides, before the wedding. We met up with Tyrel, Susan, and Grayson and found some toddler friendly rides for the kiddos. The train ride, around the park was my favorite...it was really scenic and you got to see all of the rides and some surprises along the way. Lexie and Grayson thought they were on an episode of Thomas the Train.

Wish we would of had more time, but once again, I couldn't go on many rides. The roller coasters here looked really unique- so more of an excuse to come back again soon : )

Idaho-Day 3- water park

View of the wave pool



Getting ready to go down the slide...

Splash!

Toddler heaven

Okay- so I finally found a circuit city and got a battery charger, so at least I have pics from this point on!

Woke up and met up with some Brock cousins down at the continental breakfast. They were telling us how awesome the water park is (which is inside the hotel.) We figured we better check it out and got on our suits right away.

I was so surprised how Lexie went right for it. They had a huge toddler area, with smaller slides (just right for my preggo self) and random sprays. I have to say, I can't wait to go back when I don't have a bun in the oven because the huge water slides looked amazing. Travis and his cousin Tyrel played around on those and taunted me with how much fun they were. There was also a huge wave pool. I pretty much had to yank her out around lunch time because she was a raisin.

Idaho- Day 2

We woke up in Ellensburg and packed up. Then we headed to breakfast at our favorite place in town, Cattins. Lexie ate a ton of food and charmed all of the staff. They even sent her out with some free cookies, got to love the perks of having a cute kid.


Her full belly must of helped me out at nap time, because she slept the whole way from Ellensburg to Coeur d'Alene...well over 3 hours! It was such a nice, peaceful drive for us to be able to chat with one another.


We arrived at our hotel in Coeur d'Alene around 3pm, you got to check this place out if you are in town. Perfect place for kiddos or adults that play like kids. We got all of our stuff unpacked and headed back West on I-90 to Spokane to see our dear friends, The Oords.


The Oords just bought an amazing house near Gonzaga U in Spokane. They cooked up some BBQ for us and it was so nice to visit. Their son, Keith, was our ringbearer in 2004 : ) He is pretty much a little man now. Lexie enjoyed climbing up and down all 3 stories of their house.


We headed back to our hotel pretty late...just in time for bath and bed, knowing the next day would be jam packed.

Our fun trip to Idaho- Day 1

We headed to Idaho to attend a wedding and made it in to a 4 day mini-road trip. We left on Thursday, during nap time, so Lexie slept in the car from our house to Northbend (about 1hr20mins.) Once there we explored the outlet malls and got her a new pair of shoes at the Stride-rite outlet. If you know our girl, you know she LOVES shoes and when we were in the store she kept running through aisles, tearing through the boxes, screaming "shoes!" Yes, I think they were happy to see us leave.

After lunch and shopping, we headed to Ellensburg. The home of our prestigious CWU. Travis and I were so excited to bum around the same town we met and fell in love in. The weather was gorgeous and we lucked out on a great deal in a nice hotel. We took Lexie to the University and bookstore and bought some CWU gear. We had a great dinner at a yummy restaurant and enjoyed the sights of the little city we love.

You will notice there is no pictures of Day 1 or 2 of our trip. I forgot to charge up my camera before I left and was asking every store in town if the sold the USB for it...with no luck! However, we found a solution and made up for it on day 3 and 4.

Day at the park

Travis kicked us out of the house one weekend to finish some home improvement projects. Thankfully we sought refuge at Casa de Garwood's. There was a cute little park down the road, where we attempted to wear out the toddler. Here are more great pics that Pops took.

Proudly picking her nose on the way home...great way to top off a day : )

And while we played Travis worked hard. He finished putting in new laundry cabinets, white molding downstairs, painted the family room and put in 2 ceiling fans. All by himself. Super Dada!

Perfect day at the zoo

Trouble makers in the shark's mouth

We were racing a smart-mouthed 4 yr old in the pic. We won.

Fun!

Our friends, Amy and Ephraim, invited us to join them at the Pt. Defiance Zoo today. It was literally the perfect day for the zoo...the weather was sunny, the kids were happy, and the mama's enjoyed getting out of the house.

Lexie was great at naming the animals and she said to each one. "Hi, fishy." "Hi, monkey." "Hi, sheep." You get the picture : )

There is also a kids play area, that Lexie and Ephraim loved. The slides were awesome!

Early Easter Pics

"Me" one of her new favorite words.
Here she comes...

Watch out...She's looking for cholocate.

Pops Garwood took some more amazing photos, this time with the Easter theme. It was too funny watching her go out on the golf course, hunting for eggs. I think these will go down as some of my favorite pictures ever, I just love them.