a recap of today and a few low quality iPhone pictures.

After a few hits of the snooze button, the day started off right with a bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats and some puppy-wrestling in our room, which soon turned to puppy-tossing...which was followed by a few minutes of human-shunning because Dexter was not having it. 

 
Typically church starts at nine in the morning for us, but this week was a bit of a different schedule and while I do not condone church-skipping by any means, it was my wonderful mother-in-law's birthday. So we jumped in the car, picked up Rachel and Aaron, and headed down the road to Andy's parents' house to go celebrate. Driggs has grown to be of my favorite places. Andy grew up with probably one of the greatest views of the Grand Tetons there is and every time I step out the back door and look at them I feel so small. But in a good way. I don't think I'll ever "get used" to living in the mountains. I think they'll always amaze me. 

Does not even do this view one bit of justice. One day I'll have a grown-up camera…Also I don't think I'll ever be able to take an even panorama picture on my phone. Ugh.

When we got there, we decided to adventure on down to the river, where Andy and Aaron spent a few minutes doing some fly fishing. Meanwhile, Rach and I sat on the bank sharing secrets and laughs like good sisters do. Dexter chased the wind as fast as his little legs could carry him.

   

^^That teeny tiny little speck in the water is Andy. 

^^This is happiness.

Forty-five minutes later we were back in the car with the score coming in at Fish-1 Andy and Aaron: 0. Too muddy...too windy, apparently. But spirits were not low! We headed back to the house for a birthday dinner. The rest of the night was spent eating good food and hanging out with the greatest people. We drank Coke and root beer from glass bottles and looked through Grandma and Grandpa's high school yearbooks. It was just one of those nights filled with warm feelings. The best kind! Being so far away from my own family in Arkansas, it's nice to have Andy's side of the family close by. I love those people. After drawing out our mini-escape from everyday craziness as long as we could, we finally made our way back to Rexburg. One very exhausted pup dozed on my lap the whole way there. Raise your hand if you think that weekends need to be longer. I sure do.

^^ Faves.

^^Because who doesn't love a fun pair of socks?