Henry's Lake 2015

Every Memorial Day weekend, Jorden and Krew go fishing at Henry's Lake in Idaho with Jorden's dad and brothers. Krew so looks forward to it every year.

Krew snagging a big one!

Krew in his element. I don't think there's anything else in the world that Krew enjoys more than fishing.

Despite the cold weather, Krew was happy all day!

It was a successful day!

Krew, Jorden, Blake, Chet

After the guys went fishing, Jorden and I had the chance to visit our good friends the Halls.

 Quinton holding Zane, Krew, Myla, Liam.

Krew and Quentin were good buddies when we lived in Idaho Falls. I love that they can pick up right where they left off every time we visit. I also love watching our families grow.

We got back to Grandma and Grandpa's and Jorden discovered a new look.

Myla thought the look, looked better on her.


Every time we go to Jorden's parents', Myla begs Grandma to show her the fun games on her iPad. Myla was being pulled between the iPad and sleep. Sleep ultimately won.


The next day it was time to head home. Harvey included (in the middle).

Until next time Idaho!

Memorial Day Weekend

One of Krew's favorite places to go is Cabela's. With it being right across from our house, we tend to go there often. He loves looking at the fish and then loves to look at the fishing poles. He always asks when he can go fishing. We took the perfect opportunity and took Krew fishing for the first time on Memorial Day weekend. The boys, Grandpa Backman, Jorden, and Krew, headed up to Henry's Lake with the trailer. While the girls, Grandma Backman, Myla, and I, stayed home and shopped, ate, and relaxed! The only condition I had was that Jorden send me lots of pictures of Krew's first fishing trip. He definitely did a good job of keeping me updated!

When they got up there it was pretty cold, so the first thing they did was make a fire and find the perfect "smarshmello" stick!

Staying warm.

This kid and his Cheetos! Pure bliss in his eyes!

Making the perfect mallow. Krew got lots of practice and became quite the pro at mallow roasting by the end of their trip!

 Beautiful Idaho Sunset.

The next morning they got out of bed at the crack of dawn to start their fishing day. They went out at 5:30 and were back in the trailer by 5:45. It was just too cold, so they started with breakfast instead. When it finally warmed up a little bit, it was down to business! They were very successful and could catch a fish at almost every cast. Jorden even said after the first 5 or so catches Krew was already bored. Ha! I guess that's better than being bored of NOT catching any fish!

 Right after the above picture was taken, the fish's tail wacked Krew in the cheek. Krew was so not happy about it. He kept an eye on it and when they got home and were preparing the fish to eat, Krew pointed to his fish and said, "I'm going to eat that one because he's mean and hit me in the face!" Oh such sweet revenge!

Krew catching a fish. Jorden was helping him out here but he did say that Krew actually caught one completely on his own. Not bad for a 4 year old!

A successful day!

And ya know it's certainly a successful day when you see this in the back seat not even 5 minutes on the road!

Back at home we didn't waste any time and got to roasting "smarshmellos" again.  

One of Jorden's sweet concoctions, which was actually quite good! The bottom was a chocolate chip cookie, center was an Oreo and a Reese's peanut butter cup, and it was topped with a crinkle cookie. Ya, I might have gained 10 pounds over the weekend!

 Over the weekend Myla went for her very first wagon ride.

I don't think she knew what was going on, but she sure seemed to enjoy it!

It didn't take long for Krew to want in on the action.

It took A LOT of convincing to get him to get in with her. I think it was mostly lack of sleep but he felt like the wagon was a perfect fit for JUST him! Oh boy! The first signs of jealousy are creeping up on us! 

 We had a perfect night of watching the Heat dominate the Pacers while,

 Grandma and Krew were on the ipad looking at all the fun things to do at Disneyland

We got a chance to catch up with our good friends the Halls. Man oh man we miss these guys!!! It was so good to see them! It's great that Quinton and Krew can just pick up where they left off!

October 2012, right before we moved:

May 2013:

Gotta love Leo's place!

The ride home was a little nightmarish. It felt like the four hour drive was a lifetime plus a couple of years. Myla literally cried for 2 hours. We would pull over, change her, feed her, burp her, play. When she was all smiles and giggles I'd put her back in her car seat and it was back to screaming. Like the hyperventilating kind. She finally wore herself out and went to sleep. Sigh...

Besides the drive home we had a fabulous get-away! Krew has talked about it ever since and already can't wait until next year!

What We're Going To Miss

I finally figured out how to post pictures from my phone. So beware of picture overload!And some poor quality pictures. Looking through these pictures on my phone, I realized how much we are going to miss from Idaho Falls. 

Such as:

Trips to Cal Ranch with Grandpa Backman

Krew age 2

The library.

 One of Krew's favorite things was going to the library. One of the reasons he loves it so much is because the library was under construction to expand, taking out a lot of the parking lot. The temporary parking lot was quite the walking distance and golf carts would give rides to and from the library. Krew thought it was the coolest thing!

 He also loves the headphones 

and the fish at the library.

 Our patio.
We loved just hanging out back there and Krew would ride his bike back and forth all day long! 

While we were packing up the house one day I heard the back door open. I peeked through the blinds and found Krew kicked back in my chair reading the Toys R Us magazine! Gotta start preparing for what to ask Santa for!

Picture taken through the blinds.

 Grandma and Grandpa's spa tub.
He thinks it's so fun. He sometimes asks me if he can go "swimming" at Grandma's house.

 Watching thunderstorms from our front porch. 

A couple of weeks before we moved we had a huge thunderstorm. Krew was astonished by the thunder and lightening and we decided to watch from our front porch for a better view. Harvey decided he didn't miss out on the excitement either.

Krew is laying on my lap on the left and Harvey is on the right.

 Great Grandma Losee.
She moved from Spanish Fork, Utah up to Idaho Falls a couple of months ago. Krew would love to go visit her. She always had candy for him and would give him the funnest wheelchair rides. We will miss visiting Grandma as often as we were able to!

Eating out with Grandma and Grandpa.
One night Jorden's parents told us to go to a movie one last time before we moved. We didn't hesitate and took them up on their offer! While we were gone, Krew went out to eat at ihop. Krew LOVES pancakes! And the whipped cream that comes on top!

"Helping" Grandpa rake his leaves.

Grandma and Grandpa's house is surrounded by big trees, and the leaves have to be raked up often. Krew loved to help grandpa rake them up. Mostly because Grandpa would give him rides in the tarp across the yard! 

Krew's friends.

Krew had some pretty good friends in nursery and in the neighborhood. But he will really miss his good friend Quinton. We went out one last time to Leo's Place before we moved and krew was so disappointed when I told him it will probably be a while before we meet up with them again.

Krew takes after me and gets really red-faced when he plays hard!

Patty and Ruby.

We love Gma and Gpa's dogs. Harvey and Patty have a love-hate relationship. But sure are cute when they love each other.

We will miss so much about Idaho. The first few days we moved in, Krew was so excited about our new house. But the past couple of days he keeps asking when we can go to Grandma and Grandpa's house. It's pretty sad. And now we are about 9 hours away from my parents. I guess that's part of relocating for a new, better job! Thank goodness for facetime!

The following picture are just cute pictures of Krew!

My favorite view from my rear-view mirror. Krew sleeping, in his famous pose! (Don't worry! I was at a stop light!)

This is one of my favorite pictures because Harvey usually stays away from Krew. But Krew had a bad flu about a month ago and Harvey didn't leave his side. So sweet!

 It's always so much better when Krew is back to his healthy, happy self!

For all the things we will miss, we are so excited for our new adventure in Utah! 

High-Tech Toddlers

 A couple of weeks ago Quinton came over to play. The boys had a blast and Krew loved wrestling with someone his own size! When they saw the ipad & iphone come out they immediately settled down and were in there own world. (Krew has the ipad and Quinton was playing with my iphone) It was amazing how these two could navigate these things! They can find exactly where the games are. I think they can work it better then I can!

After they got bored of that, they needed some more realistic fun. Like riding a horse! I wish I had their giggling recorded because they were both uncontrollably laughing. It was too cute!

What a good guy I have! He is full of entertainment!