After 11 months and 3 weeks of counting down by the kids, it was here once again! Our trip to Idaho to see the Robinsons! The kids were so excited. And I am not joking when I say that they (especially Kellen) have been asking when we were going again since we got home from our last trip. The drive up there went incredibly smooth. The kids were great. Traffic was not too bad. We were in St. George for the 4th of July overnight on our way up to Rexburg. We ate dinner at Cafe Rio, went to see the St George temple,  swam at the hotel, ate yummy ice cream and then drove as close as we could to see fireworks. It was a pretty long day and the kids handled it like champs!

 The next day we met Sarah and her family a little bit outside of Salt Lake at this AMAZING water park. The kids were in Heaven! All of them. It was such a great way to break up the day. We played for hours and the kids couldn't get enough of it. It made the last 4 hours of the drive so much easier for us. And it gave us even more time with the cousins.

 Ding and Korah met us there too! The kids love to pester them and made them go in the lazy river with them over and over and over agin.

 One of our first days in we decided to take inner tubes and floated down the river. The kids LOVED this last year and had been really hoping we could do it again. Todd and Kip scoped it out and decided it was doable for our group. It was a first experience for Todd which made it really fun. And Makenna was big enough to use her own inner tube, which was a bit crazy for Mom to take in. The water was freezing (by California standards). But we had a blast. All expect Conner. He say quiet during most of it and I couldn't figure out what was going on with him. Finally I got him to explain that the gross water (not being able to see to the bottom) was just too unsettling for him. 

Our river float ended at a small pond in a friends backyard that has an awesome rope swing and platform that you can jump/swing off of. To everyones surprise Kellen was an animal! That boy was up and off that platform over and over and over again. Conner did it a few times, but then he had enough. Makenna was finally convinced to jump, only with her Uncle Bickey holding her hand. It was sweet. I of course was a natural on the swing. Sarah was much less graceful. Kip beat us all with his ballerina twirl at the end. 

 Down the river we go!

 What do sisters do when they get together? They take turns throwing babies into foam pits!

 Idaho has an awesome place called ijump that the kids loved. It is a huge trampoline park. The kids jumped for hours and still didn't have enough. But there is something just so sweet getting to just watch the kids play and laugh and have fun together. 

 Though Sarah was TRULY on the verge of a mental breakdown, this was one of the funniest moments of the trip for me. Todd and Kip had gone on a man trip for the day and Sarah and I had the kids to ourselves all day. After ijump the kids were dying to go to a pizza buffet up there that my kids had loved. So Sarah and I decided yeah, we have 7 over tired, hyper kids. Why not take them all to a late dinner at 7:30 to a buffet all by ourselves?! I honestly didn't think it was all that bad. We were lucky enough to score our own closed off party room. But I went to take a couple kids to the bathroom and when I came back I came back to this! It was so good I had to make her re pose so I could take a pic and remember forever!

 Since most of the cousins have summer birthdays we have a tradition of exchanging birthday gifts during the summer so that all the cousins can watch each other open their gifts up. The kids love it. The mommies love it. And I love our little traditions we are making, even if Sarah and her family left us and are making us all suffer living far apart. We love our cousins!