Trip to Idaho

A few weeks ago, we got news that Rob's dad had gotten hit by a car while riding his bike.  He was life flighted to a hospital in Boise (he lives in La Grande Oregon) and has been there since then.  Rob went up to Boise to see his dad right after it happened with two of our kids and two of his brothers.  Then a couple of weeks later, we packed up all of the kids and headed up to Idaho.

The trip started off great with three out of the four kids sleeping for a couple of hours.  Sadie just worked hard on her sticker book.  :) Notice the red spots on Emery's face...On our way out the door, she tripped and face planted down our three cement stairs in the front.  I think I was on the phone with Scott at the time.  I can't remember.  But the poor girl had three bruises on her face. 

We got there around 8:30 pm and stayed with Rob's friend Liz from high school.  Her and her family were such awesome hosts!  We felt so welcome and comfortable...I don't think we can thank them enough for all they did for us! The next day we headed over to the hospital to see Rob's dad.

Zac got to wear this face mask because he had a little bit of a cough.  Let's see how thrilled he was about that...

...not so much.

We went for a walk with Grandma.  There is a path that has symbols on the ground that you follow to different garden areas.  It was pretty fun.  The kids loved finding all of the symbols on the ground.

At one point we heard the helicopter on the roof of the hospital getting ready to take off.  We waited and waited for it to go, then we stood on the bench to see if we could see it.  No such luck.  And then right when we started walking away...

It took off!  It was pretty cool to see, although kinda sad because it means that someone else was hurt and needed a ride in it to the hospital.

We found this lovely waterfall thing and the kids threw pennies in it.  Then we went to eat lunch in the hospital.  Rob had been with his dad the whole time we were walking.  We got all of our food ready and sat down to eat.  And that is when we discovered this:

Oh boy...

Even worse than we thought!

Ew.  Good thing I had another onesie in my purse!  ha ha  Rob was nice and changed this diaper for me.  :)  He is the best.

He was very helpful at naptime as well.  ha ha.

One day while Rob was at the hospital, Liz took us to a fun park.  It was really nice and had lots of fun stuff for the kids to play on!  Here is Emery the pirate.  

Our kids really enjoyed playing with their kids.  They were very good about sharing all of their toys with us.  Can't wait to see them again sometime. 

Before we headed home, we had a picnic with grandma.  Then we took off back home to Utah.

This was one of our rest stops.  The kids are looking longingly at the pool.  ha ha

And this girl got some of her wiggles out.

The kids did pretty well in the car.  There were quite a few tears from Riley, but other than that we made it home in one piece.  We are still praying for Rob's dad as he has a long road to recovery, and we can't wait to drive up there and see him again!