Weekend in Idaho

 Okay, it's been a couple weeks ago now...(I have been in such a funk lately and having a hard time figuring out how to do everything that needs to be done and still be a good mom.) but we took little Kassi to Idaho to meet Jeremy's family there!  She loved GG and GP!  She was full of smiles for them!  She also met Uncle Brent, Aunt Jill, and (below) Aunt Betty. 

Something funny about this visit: we always go to church with GG and GP before heading back home on the Sundays we are there.  This time, though, I forgot the girls' Sunday dresses.  I had them laid out but they didn't make it into the car.  So we had to borrow dresses from Jeremy's youngest cousin, Tanisha, who lives next door to his grandparents.  She had one for Sami (who is the same size as her) and some old ones for Ally and Emmy.  But she no longer had a size to fit Kassi.  For some reason, when I was packing, I had just thrown in the little outfit that Kassi is wearing in these pictures.  It's actually one that I wore when I was a baby.  It's not a dress but I figured it worked for an infant.  I didn't know why I was packing it at the time but it came in useful and I got so many compliments on how cute it was on her!

 While we were there, we went to their final day of the county fair.  The 4H was having their livestock auction.  I had never seen anything like it before in real life.  I may have grown up in an agricultural area, but I was a "small town city girl" and never even ventured into the that portion of our county fairs except to look at the rabbits once.  It was always the shopping booths and carnival rides for me.  Anyway, it was fun to watch a bit of the auction.  I love visiting the place where Jeremy spent his childhood and taking walks down his memory lane.  And I love that the girls get so into it, too.

The highlight of the weekend for Ally was hanging with the cats.  She spent every moment she could outside with a cat and a bunch of kittens.  Her favorite was one named Twilight who looks astonishing like my cat from my childhood, Mittens.  He kept disappearing, though, when we would try to get a picture.  So the above is Ally with Tanisha and Crystals, the kitten.