My Adventrous Week In Idaho

My dad is in California for 3 weeks with the Reserves and Jeff went to Oregon for the week So, we all know what that means...Mommy/Daughty time. We had so much fun. My grandma recently moved in with my parents for a while to recover from surgery and it was nice to be able to spend lots of time with her too.

My mom got Kamden a stick horse and was demonstrating how to ride it.

Kam about got bucked off a few times but he loves it.

At the surprise party, Kamden was walking down the stairs with a puzzle and fell. It was the first time he's really bled when he got hurt. I was freaking out a little cause his mouth was bloody. His tooth went through his lip and I was checking his teeth to make sure they didn't wiggle. He only cried for about 30 seconds.

He is one tough cookie.

Kamden and Paisley had so much fun together. Kamden plays pretty rough compared to her and she'd squint and shy away when he got too close but for the most part they had so much fun. Lots of hugs and kisses to each other.

She loved her new pink flip flops and Kam thought they were pretty great too.

I wanted to make a blanket for the new baby. It was my first quilt and it was SO fun! We were experimenting so we had to keep backtracking but we had a great time.

Yes, I posed for this picture. I really was sewing though. :)

Kam loved it. He wanted to wrap up in it and he kept calling it "B". It's the babies "B".

I had enough left over to make a pillow too.

Finished product!

My second night there, I had just gotten out of the shower and was talking to Jeff on the phone. I heard way loud screeching and **BANG**BANG**POW**. You get the point, lots of noise. I looked out the window and saw bouncing red lights. Someone had just wrecked in my parents horse corral. My mom had just gotten in the shower and I yelled for her to hurry and come out. I called my brother and he was in bed. Andrea's parents were visiting so she came with her dad who used to be an EMT. (He's also about 6'6" so that makes ya feel a little safer.)

I didn't dare get any pics of the front of the truck cause I didn't want to make the guy mad. Sorry Brooks.

Before Andrea and her dad got there, my mom and I walked out to see if they were hurt. Their radio was blaring so we thought they must be hurt too bad to turn it off. A man leaned out of the drivers side window and he was fine. He was so drunk he couldn't turn it off. He kept trying to start his truck and drive off. He was going from Lava to Preston. (About an hour drive.) His truck is totalled by the way. He was repeating himself and saying "Okay mom, you can go now." We called 911 and the police came.

The guy was calling Andrea's dad "Boss" and when the cops came the drunk guy said that Dave, Andrea's dad was standing in the middle of the road so he had to swerve to miss him. He must have forgotten that Dave was down at Brooks and Andrea's when he wrecked.

Once they got him out of the truck he was getting really belligerent. He punched on of the cops and they had to tackle him to the ground and put him in handcuffs. This is not something you see in Grace, Idaho.

Now for the really sad part. They had just moved the horses to a different corral so that was good. But, it has taken my dad years to get this corral just how he wanted it. On Father's Day 4 years ago, all the kids/grandkids came up and painted panels for the fence around the corral. The panels were all custom made and it right in the front part of my parents house. (I'm standing in the driveway for this pic.)

What a mess. Don't drink and drive!