our anniversary+ birthday's+Easter=busy weekend Part one

I'll begin by writing that last week all 3 kids got "the crud" from somewhere. Not too bad, just not fun at all. Well, Barrett took Friday off from teaching and UPS so that we could go somewhere to celebrate our 7th anniversary(march 23, easter sunday this year), seeing as how last year we spent our day recuperating from giving birth to Bo the previous day...So Friday after Anson got home from school and over to therapy we loaded up Eden and Bo and took them over to Gma Wood's. Neither of them were feeling very good, but we knew they'd be well taken care of for the next 24 hours so we took off up to Idaho City. It's true, I felt a little bit guilty leaving them, but was so very excited to spend some quality time with Barrett that I got over it pretty quick. We drove to More's creek summit, about 20 minutes past IC. Just as we were pulling into a parking area several snowmobiller's were loading up to leave. They said we'd basically have the mountain to ourselves and they were right. It was a gorgeous day to be in the mountains! We slipped into our snowshoes and Barrett had a small pack with our water, camera and sleds(given to us from the new year baby), and we were off...We snowshoed quite a ways up and then we sled most of the way back down. I'll share some pictures and try a video clip...just know that it was some much needed fun for both of us. It's been a while since just the two of us had a good time like this. Of course I thought several times that the kids would be loving the sledding part of it, but probably not the hiking up the mountain part-and honestly I was happy not to be hauling them!

After we wore ourselves out we headed back into town for a great meal at a place called the Goldmine. After dinner we checked into our room at the Idaho City Hotel-not exactly the most romantic place, but it had a lot of character and we had a lot of fun. We (I) switched back and forth between the BSU men's bball game and the Sound of Music, it was great! Only too bad BSU lost...oh well. The only thing that could've capped off this night woulda been a dip in the old warm springs. Do you(Munson's) remember that sign in the bathroom that said:

Welcome to our OOL

Notice there's no P in it

Let's keep it that way

Gosh, I miss that place...

Next morning we had breakfast at a little place called Calamity Janes. The food was pretty good, but our fellow patrons really made the experience. All locals. Enough said. And then we headed back to life and reality in Boise. Barrett and I both hope to make this a tradition, we had so much fun!