Cabin Getaway

Caleb and I were able to put work aside and take a much needed vacation to spend a few days and create new memories with our greatest friends. Lucky for us, Emily's parents were kind enough to let us crash at their cabin for a few nights. Each night was spent playing games of ticket to ride, developing even more game hate towards each other, story telling, and of course laughing until our stomachs hurt and tears were coming out of our eyes.

Here's a picture of pretty much the coolest people in the world.
Danny McKinley and his cute pregno wife Jessie, Braden who will only be womanless for a few more weeks, Elliot and Emily Hales, us, and Dave Wangsgard and his cute girl Sarah.

Boys will be boys and find joy in...
Shooting paintballs at each other, hot pink ones I must say.

Jumping off the dock to test how cold the water in the lake is. I guess there's nothing exciting about simply putting your hand in the water to see how cold the water is... great photo opp taken by Jessie

Showing off for the ladies. See the tennis ball?! Awesome photo thanks to Jessie again.

Taking their wives out to dinner at Chili's. Funny side not. I asked our waitress to take this picture. After the picture she turned to me and asked, "Are you two together?" And I guess I looked at her with a confused look and said "What, am I with him?" as I point to Caleb. Obviously she meant Caleb considering he was the only person I was sitting by. But the question caught me so off guard because we're married, and I thought maybe the rings, the arm around the shoulder and us paying together on the same ticket pointed towards a theme. Maybe not? She probably thinks I don't want to even claim my own husband as mine. Hello, I love to show my man off any chance I get. Kind of funny though. We laughed.

So she took this picture of us, because "we're together." :) Like Caleb's shirt? It says smoking is toxic, I've taught him well.

Kissing snakes, but more importantly finding an opportunity to show
off their muscles.

Showing off some more. Yep, that's a kneeboard, hence the word knee, Dave didn't understand. He turned the thing into a feet board.

Caleb also found time to show off. He was trying to be all cool by standing in the canoe. His friends like to say he does that because it sinks or tips over when he sits down. I'm beginning to think they are all right.
Here's the before...
And this is always what the after picture looked like. Just kidding, Caleb was fine standing in the canoe, it was when people came by on the waverunner to create big waves, that the thing would tip over.

When walking downtown in Jackson, Caleb found the perfect snack for himself.

Other highlights of the trip included the float down the Snake. I stayed back with Jessie and Emily to have some much needed girl talk. I think there's a reason why most people sit in a fishing boat or float in a raft to go down that thing, they came back with blue lips, goose bumps, and shaky knees. This picture made me laugh, they were all trying SOOO hard to get the air out of the tubes. They kept finding new ways to sit on the tubes to push the air out, but their methods just weren't working too well.

As you can see, we didn't have fun at all. Totally kidding. This was one of those trips where you couldn't wait for it to come, and then it came, and went away way too fast. Driggs is a beautiful place. Palasades, the lake we went to, could be called Paradise. That was the lake my dad grew up by and is the lake where he spent is boyscout days learning how to ski. I told him he is in so much trouble for never taking his children there, and he better take us all there soon. Living in a one stoplight town would be so hard, and I could never do it, but having places like Victor, Idaho that you can visit to get away from life with some of the people you love most is so nice. Who ever knew that people in smalltowns serve icecream with square scoopers rather that circular shaped scoopers?! Now we know. Despite the bees, my ultimate fear, and mice, my other ultimate fear, the cabin was great. Yep that's right, mice. Caleb, Jes and I saw a mouse in the cabin. Danny heard a scream and thought it was a girl, but nope it was Caleb. Caleb grabbed the fire sword thing to stab the mouse, but Danny beat him to the punch. He hit the thing with a box, looked at it, and the mouse went into seizure mode, feet in the air, body shaking, and it died. Suddenly the mouse that grossed Jes and I out, made us feel sad that it died like that. It must be a girl thing and being able to kill a mouse simply by looking at it must be a guy thing. :) The boys cooked the entire vacation. And by using the word cook I'm talking, pancakes, waffles, hasbrowns, eggs, barbecued chicken, steak, potatoes and the list goes on. We ate better meals on the trip then we have all summer.
Palasades, a.k.a. Paradise
She loves him, he loves her.
Thanks for the memories babe!