Summer Vacation 2011

This year Scott and got away from the Memphis heat and spent about 10 days with family in Coeur d'Alene, ID. We met my family at my grandparents house and enjoyed a week of boating, goofing around, shopping and great company. Besides the concussion that Jared got one day at the lake, there were no injuries :)

The boys did lost of golfing, and we spend lots of time laying out and playing on the boat. One day we spent just a day with the Biggs' family and went into Spokane. We ate lunch at this old diner "Wolfy's" and then did some shopping. Shelbie came downtown later in the afternoon and took some family pictures for us. It has been years (summer before my grade 12 year) since we had family photos taken, so it was nice to get some updated ones. As soon as I get them from Shelbie I'll post them. I know there were some great ones! We ended our family day at PF Changs. It was DELICIOUS! We polished off 2 apps, 7 entrees and rice....and they had to roll us out of there. It was so worth it though!

One day was also designated as our Silverwood day. I LOVE amusement parks, and this is a good one. We got there before it opened so we could be the first in line. It was important because there is a water park as well as a roller coaster park and we wanted to get good lounge chairs in the water park portion. Dad cut in line and we ran like fools and got great lounge chairs for all 15 of us right in front of the wave pool! We looked (and felt) ridiculous, but having lounge chairs to come back to when the place is packed makes the running worth it! (Not to mention lots of other people ran too...)

The boys and I spent all morning riding the roller coasters. We even got Sam on all of the same rides that we did! We were so proud of him! We ate lunch and then spent the afternoon at the water park on all the water slides, tube slides and in the wave pool. We vowed to stay there until it closed, so after Kathy, Kris, Kylie, Kira, Shelbie and Gma/Gpa left the rest of us (mum, dad, Scott, Jordan, Jared, Spencer, Sam, me) went back to our favorite rides of the day and did them again. We got mum on all the coasters....even the worst of them all (aka, the best!). She was a trooper and we even bought the photo they take of you because all of our faces were hilarious!

It was such a fun trip, but as always, way too short. We can't wait to get home for Christmas!

Jared fell asleep in Grandpa's chair with sparky.  We all laughed because he looked like an old man!

Sam and Kira on the tube.

The family all relaxing on the beach.

Dad getting ready for a boat ride.