Family Vacation ID Springs 2017

What a great time we had over Memorial Day weekend with John's family. We started by Exploring the creek, the yard and the treehouse...and by playing some football in the grassy area.

Next we moved on to other fun things: Ellie explored the grassy field and Andy went sloshing in the River

We ate some supper for the night and got cozy in the house.

The next day we spent some time in the house playing, and went on a short hike/walk up the road. We played more football and treehouse fun.

I may be getting the days confused...but we had a ton of fun. Happy hour started early and the kids reading in bed was adorable.

We played more outside:

On the nicest weather day, we went for a short hike, and had lunch on some picnic tables. We had a blast!

After a quick bathroom break, we drove up the road a bit further and found a place to go sliding on the side of a parking spot by Mayflower Gulch.

Most of the time Jay and Andy ended up going down with no sled:

Ellie's 1st Twinkle Twinkle Birthday Party

Ellie Turned 1! Here are some fun pictures. I will start with the best part...the smash cake!

Here is one of the videos: More of the party: Food: I hadn't even made any sort of cake at 8pm the night before the party, but my mom convinced me it was important (I did have a back up plan...but the real cake turned out great!). I couldn't find my small round pan, but I found a heart shaped one in the basement. We had Funfetti cake with buttercream frosting, edible gold glitter dust and an edible sugar paper strip. Jay did all of the work on the cupcakes and the pink balls around the outside of the cake- super helpful as I did all the decorating the morning of the party. We got a cookie cutter and poured some gold glitter dust on the inside. We also had star shaped sugar cookies for "make your own fruit pizza". I used the rest of the glitter dust on the sugar wafers with white chocolate. We also had "build your own taco/nachos" and chips and guac/salsa.

Some more of the decorations:

We had a "Star" photo booth area:

Ellie loved opening present:

We are so thankful that Family could celebrate this occasion with us.

Singing: And just for fun...Ellie says "Touchdown"