fun in boise

After we spent a couple weeks in the nation's capital, Ty skipped the last couple days of his conference (Shhh! Don't tell!!) and we flew from D.C. to Boise for Spring Break, Easter, and General Conference.  We began the Boise adventure taking group pictures:

While we were there, we took time out to celebrate a group birthday party, since Andrea turned 29 while we were there and Lyndsey, Nate, Lindsey, and Tyler all have March-ish Birthdays and we only get together every so often!  Everyone in the family had also written a very sweet note to us for Beckett's Birthday and my mom had bought a beautiful cake "birthday" platter that will help us remember him as we celebrate each family member on their birthday and rejoice that we are sealed forever.  It was nice to celebrate/remember our little man, since his is a March Birthday also.

The kids especially loved spending time with Uncle Logan, Aunt Lyndsey & Uncle Nate (above) and Aunt Chantelle & Uncle Jason and Aunt Lindsey & Uncle Ben, it's been too long since they've had THAT much Aunt and Uncle attention!  Plus, time with Nana and Papa is always a treat. 

We all had a super fun time.  The kids, Nana, Chantelle, and Jason all worked together to make everyone a crown, since we are rather royal.

When the wind was strong enough, the kids convinced Papa to take them to the school field nearby to have fun flying kites.  It only took us (and by us, I mean Aunt Lindsey) 6 hours to untangle kite strings afterward, so we'll call it an overall success.

Ty heard Coleson screaming across the field while squatting down to the ground.  Come to find out he was a scared that the wind and kite would team up to carry him away.  He is such a light-hearted soul, after all. Needless to say, he wouldn't let Dad wander too far for a while.

Two favorites from the kite flying experience:  1) Looking across the field to see Papa teaching Nate the intricacies of professional kite flying.  I'm pretty sure I heard him saying, "It's all in the hips."  They just don't get enough quality time together anymore!

 2) Seeing Lyndsey running full speed across the field to catch up with her kite after the handle fell off her string winder.  That whole story about a kite immediately falling if you let go of the string?  Yeah, that's not quite true.  It ended up a good quarter mile away in some guys back yard with the string all up in his trees.  Nice!