our {LONG} trip to Idaho

We just got back from a 10 day trip to Burley last night. Jared actually had to come to Provo for a couple classes, then came back. We are moving there in about a month and needed to get some things in order...like where we are going to live...and we {hopefully} got it all figured out.

We also got to spend Easter, General Conference, my 25th birthday, and my Mom's birthday in Burley, along with lots of other fun little family events (like the family stomach flu! We each took a turn getting it...ugh.) The Saturday after we got to Burley was the day before Easter. Jared's Mom is in charge of her ward activities and invited us to a delicious Easter breakfast and Easter egg hunt, which had to be re-located indoors because of the freezing icy weather.

Here's Gracie finding her first eggs of the season:

They had a special room for little kids, which was a good idea, Gracie and Claire found a few eggs all by themselves:

The day of the ice snow storm also happened to be my 25th birthday. For some reason, I really don't love 25...it sounds old. I told Jared the icy bleak weather was symbolism of how I feel about turning 25. :) It ended up being such a fun, special birthday though...everyone was very nice and did lots of thoughtful things for me, so that helped.

Jared and his parents got me something that has been on my wishlist for a LONG time!

a KitchenAid! Yippee!

He also surprised me with a good book (I've been kind of a book-a-holic lately, so he knew I'd love it).

My parents got me some nice things and my mom made a delicious coconut cake!

It was a lovely day...made even better by General Conference. What better birthday present could I ask for then to be able to hear all of the wonderful talks? I loved it.

The next day, Easter, we had a delicious Easter feast between sessions with the Jones' and my parents. Then after conference we had our annual Easter Scavenger Hunt, that was EXTRA tricky this year :), put on by these two:

Jared and I got pretty confused by the clues, they were just too good.

Here's Jared after we figured out (with some help), "A tisket a tasket a green and yellow basket"...the green and yellow tractor mailbox at his Grandma's house!

"Two peas in a pod" led us to the garden...

The final clue led us to the perfect Easter surprise...we love the Jones Easter traditions. After the adults were done, the kids had a little easter egg hunt with candy and money inside the eggs, they loved it!

Aunt Kristi was helping out her nieces and nephew.

Gracie had the problem of finding one egg, sitting down, opening it and eating all the candy inside before she'd find another one. It was pretty cute.

This is the best picture I got of all the kids...I think they were a little too excited about their eggs to pay attention to cameras.

Gracie loved Easter this year, but we hope someday Easter in Idaho will be warm :)

My sister Jenny and her kids, and my sister Melinda's kids came for a few days while we were there. Gracie loved having all the kids to play with. She'd follow them around all day long...We loved being there for my Mom's birthday! We love you Mom!

Like I said, we were in Idaho for a LONG time! Sorry the post is soooo long :)