A weekend worth waiting for....

I think that we have been planning this weekend (Memorial Day weekend) for probably about 3 months. Since Mitch and Mike are such avid fisherman they needed a weekend of just fishing. Opening day at Henry's Lake is the Saturday before Memorial Day so why not make a weekend of it. That's just what we did. We took up Mitch's parents' "cruisin condo" - motorhome and went camping. We took our boat and had a great time crusin the lake, fishing, and eating. I think that Nat and Justin had the best luck fishing. I am sure that Mitch will have plenty of great days ahead. I still can't beleive how amazing the weather was, it was beautiful. Mitch kept saying, "opening day is never this nice." I think it was because I was there." I don't think I would have lasted in nasty weather. Here are a few fun pictures. They are a little out of order, but that's ok.

Tanner being cheesy. Yes, you'll notice his girly pj's. We left his bag at home and luckily I had a pack of diapers and wipes in the car until Tiffany brought us his bag on Sunday. Thanks Tiff. He wore the same clothes and Lexi's Pj's.

Justin and Tanner with the fish Justin caught.

Lexie and cousin Conner enjoying the wild boat ride.

Sleepy fisherman (Brett and Mitch). 5am fishing kicks in 9 hours later. I think we (everyone, I was off and on with the kids) were on the lake from 5 am - 9pm with a 2 hour break for dinner and rain.

Lexie fishing with her Barbie fishing pole.

Cousin Whitney and Tanner. Whitney was such a trooper; helping with the kids and going without the luxury of a shower for 3 days.

Tanner being silly with Whit's help.

I told Mitch if we went up for the whole weekend we were not taking the boat out on Sunday. We thought it would be fun to go to Yellowstone on Sunday. The rest of Mike and Brett's families came up and joined us for a great adventure. Mitch and Tanner on our hike near Old Faithful.

Mitch and me with Old Faithful erupting.

Our little family watching and waitng for Old Faithful.

All of us on the backside of Old Faithful doing a little hike. Mitch and family, Nat and Justin, Mike and family, & Brett and Family. We love having family so close to hang out with. Thanks for all the fun everyone. Thanks for coming to Idaho Nat. We love it when you come.

After our little hiking adventure we found a little spot for a quick picnic. Thanks for lunch Mike.

Yeah, it was a lot of work to get ready to go but well worth it. Camping is fun! Yipee! Thanks for the party Johnson's and Crumps! We love you all! Who else could fit 11 people into a car...only the Johnson's. Brett and Tiff''s van broke down on the way back from Yellowstone. We were ahead of them so Mike and Laurie picked them up in there Avalon. It was funny to watch them pile out. :)

It's about Time...(May Flashback)

Yes...it's about time that I updated this blog. I don't know which months is busier May or December.

It's about time...that we finally got to take the boat out again. Oh, how I love our boat. I think it's the best purchase we have ever made. Even though I tease Mitch sometimes, I really don't mind going fishing with him on it (well as long as we catch fish and the weather's not too bad.) I get a little crancky when we've been out for hours and NO FISH. Best of all...I love wakeboarding but that doesn't come 'til late June-Julyish.

The Saturday before Mother's Day was gorgeous and Mitch's brother Mike called and asked if I had something planned for Mitch...I said, "No, DO YOU?" Yep, we need to go fishing. Mitch asked if it was okay and I knew that I would either have to go or stay home and do Saturday chores by myself, so of course I decided to go. We went to Palisades Reservoir and had a great time. It's so beautiful and we did catch some fish.

This is the first fish we caught. It's not to big..but somethings better than nothing and it tasted good at our fish fry.

Here are the kids. Poor Tanner got to wear a pink life jacket cause the one he normally wears is snug with a sweatshirt under it and has one of those head bobber things on the back. We were just trolling around so it worked.

It's about that time of year for dance recitals.

Kallie and Lexie Johnson. These 2 little girls are so cute; they are best friends and cousins too. This whole year after dance they would take turns at each others house playing and would just have a blast. I can't believe how fast they are growing up. They did so good at their recital. Mitch said, "Lex does really good, she's a count ahead of the teacher" (who is down in front of the stage kind of doing the dance so the little girls don't forget what to do). I noticed that too. We were so proud of her. Great Job Lexi and Kallie!

Well this isn't the greatest film job it was actually done on my camera not on a video camera. But my camera will record digital and our video camera is a little out of date. I hope we get a new one in the sometime future. In case you noticed the arm leaning on the stage and the people talking it's because we take pictures and film at the reherseal instead of the actual recital, which makes it nice cause the recital gets very hectic with all the people.

It's about time we had nice weather. Go figure in the middle of May we had a very cold week and the next week it was in the high 80's. Every morning Lexi askes if it's summer yet and if we could get the sprinkler out. YEAH! We finally could. It was really HOT. It's not that hot now, just in the 70's. That's okay.

It's about, time....that we share the great news, that our third baby is on the way. Yep that's right we'll have three little monkey's running around. My due date is December 6. I am just over 12 weeks. Lexi and Tanner are so excited. Every day Lex asks, "How big's the baby?" Tanner says, " Baby in your bummy (tummy)?" Tanner wants a baby boy and Lex wants a baby girl. I guess we'll see:)