Friday, July 31, 2009

Summer '09 Road Trip-Stop #11

Stop #11

Lava Hot Springs, Idaho

Grandpa Kay & Grandma Beth Allred were staying at a timeshare in Lava, which is 1.5 hrs from my brothers place, so I decided to jet up there to see them. We only went for a few hours, but it was nice to see them. Trent's Mom, Joy, sister Tawnya and her kids Tucker & Hailey came down to see us too. It was fun to hang out and let the kids play for a bit.

The park had a lot of puddles that we tried to keep the kids out of at first....I'm sure you can see where this is headed. Kids and mud puddles have a mysterious magnetic attraction to one another. It's like an invisible life force is attached to both of them and slowly retracts until the child, or mud puddle can no longer resist the temptation and one or the other gets the other dirty...did you follow that? I hope so b/c if you talk to any child who's been caught playing in a mud puddle, it's NEVER their fault...so logically, one can conclude that mud puddles must have a mind of their own.

As you can see the merry go round couldn't be used b/c it was surrounded by a moat of dirty, mucky mud. And as you can also see, the kids are having a great time.

Even Carley & Hailey got in on the action. They just ran circles laughing and giggling. It was cute, until the inevitable happened.

Even after Carley fell, it was pretty cute. She was so distraught, I couldn't help but laugh.
She'd been warned. Hailey was very concerned about her and ran to comfort her.
Which was fine...until she fell too.

Here I am with the fam. Trent's mom, Joy and Grandparents Kay & Beth

1 comment:

Alissa Nicolau said...

I love how tho Emry is already wearing short shorts, she still felt the need to pull them up while in the mud puddle! Such a girl.

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