You’d think that I’d be able to rest after Cole’s birthday party…..but no. Thursday following the party, we left for Idaho! Before Dave and I met he lived in Idaho for about a year and worked with his Uncle Dan. During that time Dave became very close with Dan and Karie (Dan’s wife). This past weekend they were celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary and were throwing a big party, so we made the trip out there……
We left on Thursday around 3pm, Dave and I took turns driving and pulled an all-nighter! We got to Idaho Falls at 4:30am (that’s eastern Idaho, 1 hour ahead of Oregon). Luckily Cole was pretty amazing during the drive. So we get there, we have to wake up Cole to take him inside, Dave gets his pac’n’play (portable crib) set up and we lay him down…..of course, he’s too awake at this point and doesn’t want to go back to sleep! UGH! So by 5am, as to not wake up everyone (some other Oregon family members) in the house I decided to take Cole outside and walk around. I walked him up and down the street for AN HOUR! Without a stroller! OMGosh, my arms were DEAD. Poor Dave felt bad so he walked a little with me, then by 6am we decided since Cole was STILL awake that we’d go to McDonald’s since we were starving! So we load back up into the car and we’re not even half way there and Cole falls asleep! UGH! So we get the food anyway, eat it, then head back to the house. Cole’s still asleep by the time we get to the house, so Dave and I say screw it, we’ll sleep in the car. So I turn the engine off, and Cole WAKES UP! DAMNIT! We sit there for about 10 minutes while Cole’s screaming in the backseat, by this time is 7am…..and I say screw it! I need some sleep, so we take Cole inside. Luckily Aunt Karie had to go to cheerleading at 8am so she took Cole with her while we slept for a few hours. Karie said he had such a good time! I heard there were pictures, but I haven’t seen them yet. Dave and I sleep until about 11am, we didn’t want to waste the day sleeping, but we needed at least a cat nap. After our nap everyone goes to the shooting range.
I thought that we were just trap shooting (you know, clay pigeons and all), but we actually did a course! So we did 10 out of 15 stations. And you have someone operating the throwers, so when its your turn the you get up there and when you’re ready you say ‘pull’ (like normal) and A will be released, as soon as you take your (single) shot, B is released, then after you reload you get ready again say ‘pull’ and they do BOTH A & B at the same time! Talk about quick! Each of the stations are different and increase in difficulty. Even a couple rolled across the ground to imitate rabbits! Those were pretty tough since they’d hit bumps and bounce! We didn’t keep score, but I know that out of 10 stations, I hit at least 1 target (4 total per station) and 8 of the stations! And 2 of the stations I hit 2! Dave was so proud of me!
I got SUPER sunburned though! It even blistered on my back! OUCH! I still had a ton of fun! We went back to the house and had dinner, and hung out (Dave and I were exhausted and weren’t really up for anything amazing not to mention a storm was rolling in. I think it may have sprinkled, but that was about it). Dave told me that they had TWO drive-in movie theatres there, so we thought about doing that, but we were way too tired. So, Saturday morning we did a little shopping to get make sure we were ready for the anniversary dinner that night. There was also a ‘Kid Jam’ (I think that’s what it was called), kind of a festival with vendors, food, music, etc….by the time we got there it was almost 3pm. It took us about 30 minutes to find Dan & Karie. Since Cole hadn’t napped all morning he was REALLY cranky, so Dave and I decided to get keys to the house from Dan so we could take Cole back to the house before everyone else got there and started making a bunch of noise.
We take off back to the house, despite the fact that Dave used to live there, his directional skills were 100% (maybe 90%, but not 100%)……everyone else had made it back to the house before us! Dang it! So Cole goes down for a nap, and he got MAYBE 30 minutes to sleep before we had to get going for the dinner (Aunt Karie had arranged for family pictures prior to dinner). The whole way to the park Cole was HORRIBLE! OMG! Just horrible! I felt so bad that we were going to ruin their dinner! So we get there and the photographers (husband/wife team, also Karie’s neighbors) were GREAT! The husband, Nate, was taking the pictures while Emily, his wife, was making Cole laugh! She’d hid behind Nate and then pop out saying “Boo” in the highest pitched voice possible! EVERYONE was laughing! It was so funny! Every time we’d stop for a moment and take a break, Cole would go looking for her! Thankfully she put him in a good mood. So directly following pictures, we had dinner. Salad was good, Dave didn’t like it as much, I think it was a bit too fancy for him….but Cole thought it was great, he had half of my salad and half of Karie’s! So the options for dinner were Salmon, Prime Rib or Ravioli’s, Dave and I decided on the Prime Rib………HOLY CRAP was it the BIGGEST, THICKET, most Tender piece of prime rib I’d EVER seen! You could seriously cut this with a butter knife! The dumb part was, I have Cole sitting next to me and out of 17 people, I was served LAST! Are you kidding me? Do you not hear the yelling child next to me??? Luckily the people sitting across from us had children of their own so they understood, and even shared some of their dinner with Cole until I got mine. Cole loved every bit of dinner, he ate at LEAST half of mine, some of Dave’s, and some more of the couple’s across from us! I couldn’t believe it! We joked that we should have ordered him a plate! He even ate more that half of my dessert! By the time dinner was over everyone was stuffed and I was still hungry! Lol. We made the drive back on Sunday so Dave would be ready for work on Monday morning...
