0 Coeur D' Alene: Day 2

Woke up early-ish and went on a nice and sweaty bike ride around the loop that goes by my grandparent's house!  Of course the morning wouldn't be complete with out a zip line ride.

 

Finally, after boat prepping and packing lunch we made it out on the lake! 

This is the view of my grandparent's house from our boat.  Just kidding, I wish!  It's ridiculously huge.  Mark promised we'd buy it as soon as we get rich.

The day was spent wakeboarding, kneeboarding, tubing, and skiing.

Pretty stoked about tubing

"I just want to go a little bit faster..."

  

  

  

Ended the night by sneaking out with dad and jamie to get the famous 'gooey' from the resort.  Mark was skeptical about all of us sharing "just one".  The four of us could barely finish it.

0 annnnndd....i'm home :(

I was definitely more sad than I thought I would be coming home from Coeur D' Alene.  But you really can't blame me.  Who would trade all-day boating, sun, and beach for being stuck in an office all day?  Nobody.

We left late Friday night after Mark got off work.  Threw the bikes and a little brother in the car and we were off!

Sadly, our boating plans were ruined when we woke up the next morning to pouring rain.  Instead we saw Men in Black 3.  As soon as we got to the theater, it was way hot outside and we were regretting our choice to see a movie.  It turned out to be okay though cause post movie it was a down pour again! It was still raining come dinner time so we took our grilling party inside to the garage.

The next morning we went to church and started the drive.  Half hour into it we look in our rearview mirror and see that Mark's mountain bike is hanging halfway off the bike rack.  Luckily we had some bungee cords so we were able to fix it. Then came the rain. Again.  I've never seen so much rain in my life at one time!  It was literally a white out on the freeway from rain.  We were going about 10 mph and were scared to death a semi would hit us from behind since you couldn't see anything in front of or behind you. But all turned out fine and we got to my grandparent's house Sunday night!  

Probably not what you picture when you think of Idaho huh?

The world's longest floating boardwalk

We went for a much needed walk around the lake by city beach and the resort.  Then we ended up playing this awesome {weird?} old fashioned game my mom bought at colonial days.

You just stomp on that little wooden board thing to pop up the ball so you can hit it with your paddle.  Whoever gets your ball is up next IF they can roll the ball through the grass and hit the wooden board.  It's a lot harden then it looks, trust me.  The grass was soggy and bumpy and muddy and I missed the target from like two feet away.  Maybe multiple times.  

And that about wraps up day 1!  

0 Drumroll....

I get to be here

and here

{after a 12 hour drive}

I can NOT wait!  Only an hour and half more left at work before I get to leave to start packing.  We leave tonight. The best part is that Mark is just as excited as I am about spending a week and half with my WHOLE family!  Extended and all.  Get ready for raspberry pancakes, mountain biking, boating, wave runners, smoothies, ice cream, horse back riding, games, hiking, swimming, you name it we've got it.  Including the premier of the new bat man, "gooeys" at the resort, and a possible trip to Silverwood theme park.  

p.s. Lilly- remember this?!

0 Chocolate Peanut Butter Shake

Smoothie or Shake?  To me a smoothie has more fruit and a shake has more milk and chocolate-y treat things.  So, this qualifies as a shake.

Recipe:

1 cup milk (I use vanilla soy milk)
1 frozen banana
1 scoop of vanilla protein powder (or chocolate if you want, I've yet to try it this way)
1 Tbs cocoa powder
1 Tbs peanut butter
3 ice cubes

The first time I tried this I was honestly surprised at how good it was! Chocolate craving satisfied.  In Mark's words "It tastes like a Reese's peanut butter cup!"  Sounds like success to me.

0 While I was at work...

Mark happened to have the day off.
He.... sheesh.

Washed and Folded All the Laundry

Did the Dishes

Paid our Rent

Took my Car in to Get Fixed

AND

Made Dinner for me when I got Home!  

      How did I get so lucky?  Also, I think I should go to work and he can stay home more often:)

0 Square One.

How we began

It was easy, even at the beginning.  We had dates before the first 'official' date.  But this one was to the midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean.  I was both sure that I would marry him one day sure that he didn't like me at the same time.  But he stuck around and surprised me by accepting an invitation to make cookies with me the next Sunday.  I guess the rest is history!  [to be detailed later]


*If you look really closely you can see the band aid covering up my stitches on my chin in the picture on the top right.  Also, the apron I'm wearing is my dad's.  Nice way to attract the boy you're trying to impress.