Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sister King

Justin's youngest sister Hollie got her mission call earlier this year to Salvador, Brazil.  We are all so excited for her choice to serve a mission!  She left at the end of August.  Hollie went straight to the Brazil MTC, so we got to say goodbye to her at the airport.  We sure do miss her, but glad that she is teaching the good people of Brazil about Christ and his gospel.


Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Bye Blazer

We bought this Blazer from Justin's Aunt Ruth a couple months before Charlie was born.  I'm pretty sure she bought it brand new.  It was a nice change to have a car with room in it, especially for when we traveled.  As we know, all good things must come to an end.  It died on us, but it was the perfect excuse for us to buy...


...a 2006 Honda Odyssey!  Yeah!!!  I'm probably way more excited than Justin.  It's been awesome.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Ice Cream

We stopped for ice cream on the way home from taking pictures with the family.  Emme and Charlie LOVED it!  I think the pictures speak for themselves.


I love this face!


Ice cream everywhere!

Here we go!

This is good!

Wait!  It's really cold!

It's so good, but it's so cold!  Yikes!!!

Family Photoshoot

We decided to take some family pictures since we were mostly all together during the trip.  We went to Blaine's grandma's farm.  It was such a fun place to take the pictures.  Here is one of the whole group.

I brought our camera and thought I would snap some pictures of the kids while we were waiting for the shots to be set up.  A couple of them turned out really cute, and some others are just fun!

They sure love their daddy!

Best Friends

Typical Emme!

I love this one!


Sweet big sister

Rexburg

Justin's sister Kristin and her husband Blaine live in Rexburg.  They were nice enough to let everyone crash at their place for a couple nights during all the King family fun.  Their son Hyrum is just a month and a half older than Charlie.  Charlie was actually born on Hyrum's blessing day.  They are so cute!


We spent one afternoon at a splash pad near their house.  It was a lot of fun for the kids.  The best part was that there was a carousel there too!  How awesome is that?!


We also had a movie night one night after the kids went to sleep.  Thanks Kristin and Blaine for being such awesome hosts!

Friday, August 17, 2012

Yellowstone

I was so excited when we planned to go to Yellowstone on this trip.  I have only been there once before when I was 11 on a family road trip.  First we visited paintpots.  There was a nice boardwalk, which was great for the kids.

Emme and her cousin Hyrum.  (By the way, Emme picked out that hat all by herself when we were in Aberdeen for Grandpa King's funeral.  She begged us to buy it for her.)



Aunt Sarah and Charlie.  She had just returned from her mission in Tucson, AZ.  We were so excited to be on a family trip with her!

Next we went to see some hot springs.  They were beautiful!

I love this picture!

The colors were amazing!

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Next we stopped to eat lunch by Old Faithful.  The kids had a lot of fun playing in the dirt, as you can see!


There she blows!



We had a great time at the park.  After we left, we stopped at a pizza place for dinner in West Yellowstone. It was a great end to a busy day.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

King Family Vacation 2012

We were so lucky to be able to get almost all of Justin's siblings together this year for a fun King family vacation.  Everyone was there except his brother Michael who is on a mission in Brazil and his brother-in-law Kyle who couldn't slip away from work.

We all met up in Rexburg, then stayed in Island Park, visited Yellowstone, then stayed another night in Rexburg on the way home.  I seriously married into the best family ever!  We had a lot of fun.  These next few posts are of our trip with the fam to Idaho.

I will start with Island Park.  We stayed at a fun place right on a river called Mack's Inn.  The kids had fun playing on a little playground they had there.


I looked over and saw Emme climbing the "rock" wall.  She had never done it before and was impressed with how well she did.

Charlie hoarding rocks :)


While we were there we visited Big Springs.  There is a bridge where you can stand and see and feed the trout swimming in the water.


The landscape was beautiful!

 Not to mention, we saw some moose!  Justin got a little too brave and went up the trail to get this great shot.

We also had a lot of fun in our cabin, as you can see.  Emme zipped up in Aunt Hollie's jacket.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

A Few Extras

These are just a few more pictures that I wanted to remember from our trip to Wisconsin.

This was taken at a back yard wedding reception.  Emme and Charlie loved the balloons they got to take home.

Fun morning at the park with Grandma


We had a family party at my Uncle Jeff's house.  He loves music and guitars.  I looks like Emme might too!