Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our Visit to CDA

The Boys and I had the opportunity to go to CDA for a week. Clayton was turning 9 on Monday. He wanted 2 things for his birthday:

#1 A Football (Easy Enough)

#2 Spend his birthday in Coeur d' Alene with family and friends!!

That 2nd wish was a little hard to make happen but we packed up and took off for a week.

On the Menu for his birthday dinner-(Homemade)

Pizza

Bread sticks

Root Beer Floats

Birthday Cake (Of Course)

He had a GREAT BIRTHDAY!!

We had all the family except JoAnn and her family she just had her 2nd gall bladder surgery and was a little under the weather. They wanted to make it up to Clayton so they invited us to the Croc Center with they a few nights later. I was getting sick so chose to stay out of the water but the boys had a blast. Uncle Jake, Casen, Sam, Cody and Jessica floating the lazy river. They couldn't get enough of it. Cody went down the big slide after I coached him a bit. Thomas went first! Then it was Cody's turn and down the stairs he came "Mom it's just to high" I would tell him again "just set up and you wont go very fast, then it's just long and FUN!!" Up he would go again this happened 3 or so times then to my surprise down he came, with a grin bigger than life!

Casen could go if Uncle Jake Caught him at the bottom. He jumped all over that! Jake went down then Sam then Casen.......We waited and waited for him to reach the bottom....and waited.........finally we saw him come around the last corner nudging himself forward to make it to the end. Cody scared to go, Casen not afraid until he was on the actual slide, he kept stopping and nudging forward a little then stop again. Not sure what would be around each corner.

Mom and Sarah brought all the kids to the park one day.

They played on the structure, swang, ran around and played football. They enjoyed themselves. It was so nice to be with cousins.

We had a Surprise Pamper Night for Sarah. (She will have her baby the 24th of November. We had a lady from Mom's ward wax our hands and pamper all the girls and niece's! It was a nice and relaxing evening!!

Thank You to all our family and friends who made our visit so nice!!