sister sneak 2008

amber, kaylin, emily, me
melissa holding izzy, elena, my mom, natalie, and katie

it's still hard to believe that we were able to pull off our annual sister sneak with all nine of us in attendance (plus baby izzy)! elena (my sister-in-law) was brave enough to put it all together this year and we did it at a bed & breakfast in victor, id that elena knew about because her hubby (jarom) does their website. we were able to have the entire place to ourselves and had a WONDERFUL time!

friday after the men returned from the work force all the ladies met at my mom's, we situated the vehicles and we were off to victor, id without a care in the world! the weather was fabulous and we arrived at the fox creek inn bed & breakfast a little before 7pm (it's about 1.5 hours from idaho falls). the owner, julie, and her...david...came out to greet us and help us in. julie has a fabulous inn that she runs mostly on her own. she is from new orleans but had lived in london for the last 15 or so years and decided she wanted to do a b&b somewhere in the west and fell in love with victor, id (about a 40 minute drive from jackson hole, wy). her man still lives in london and comes and goes. he is a music composer and producer and is working with julienne irwin (who was on america's got talent last season...click here to hear the new single he composed and produced for her which they are trying to get released). we could have chatted with them both all weekend long because they are very fascinating people but we had our own agenda. they were kind enough to show us around and then they actually took off for most of the evening and let us run WILD in their place.


david and julie...our fabulous hosts...cooking our amazing breakfast

we brought some papa murphy's pizza and threw it in the oven for dinner. we were all reveling during our very quiet, undisturbed dinner. we enjoyed it immensely! then we spent the rest of the evening relaxing, soaking, chatting, laughing, and pampering.


it really wouldn't be a sister sneak without biore strips (THANKS NAT)!

natalie, emily, melissa, and me taking a soak under the clear sky with LOTS of stars and OHH so quiet. i even saw a shooting star! beautiful!

we were up until 2am just enjoying each other. it was so great! and then we were able to sleep-in until nearly 10am. after david and julie served us an incredible breakfast we packed up and took a very beautiful scenic drive to jackson hole, wy. we had a good time walking around and "shopping" for a couple hours and then started the drive home.

we all went to dinner at johnny carino's in idaho falls and then ended our sister sneak by going to the General Relief Society Broadcast at my mom's stake center. this is a satelite broadcast that the leaders of our church do for the women once a year and it's always packed full of inspired messages. i really enjoyed julie b. beck's message about the purpose of relief society and reminding us allow ourselves to be still enough and quiet enough to hear personal revelation. and i also enjoyed president uchtdorf"s message on finding peace, hope, and joy through our talents and service. if you missed it click here and you can listen to it!

what a fabulous weekend! when i walked through the door last night kevin said "you look like a new woman!" and i really felt like one.

thanks elena for putting this together and thank you kevin for allowing me to leave. kevin took such good care of the boys and i came home to a clean house and the boys in the tub. i really didn't have to lift a finger all night and he even let me sleep in sunday morning! LOVE YOU ALL!