Linda's Legacy

Another Fun Weekend: Destination Pocatello - Logan - Jerome

On Friday, August 31st, Collette and I once again embarked on another road trip. A friend of Collette's and a dear young single adult from our Branch was getting married in the Logan Temple Saturday morning, so that gave us a good reason to travel to Pocatello and stay with Jeremy and Sarah. We could make the sealing session at 8am Saturday morning in the Logan Temple much easier from there. And because Dale and Chad were selling our sauce at the market in Idaho Falls on Saturday, we drove the pick-up full of Habby Too sauce, supplies, and equipment. We had to stop three times to secure the tarp but finally made it to Pokey with all safe and sound. Dale came up late Friday night after helping announce the Jerome High School football game.

I had my camera, but didn't take pictures, so I borrowed some from Collette. (can you tell?) It was fun to play with Isaak, he is really growing up fast and on the verge of walking. Jeremy is enjoying his grad work and being a TA for one of his professors and Sarah is doing well with her new CNA job.
We met up with Chad and his roommate, Matt, at McDonald's (love those student recommended dollar menu places) before we headed to the ISU Cinema (also love those student discounted movie theaters). We watched Pirates of the Caribbean III, which I hadn't seen yet. It was a kick to see Keith Richards as a pirate, probably didn't need very much make-up for that role! It was tons of fun and Isaak was a good boy at the movies.
Chad is settled in at school and way busy, joining a major-related club (he wants to be an Optometrist) and serving as Elder's Quorum President in his student ward. We got up way early on Saturday morning, around 5am, not completely knowing how long it would take to get to Logan. We found out that it only took about an hour and a half. It was a beautiful ceremony and we enjoyed a luncheon afterward with Aaron and Matt's family and friends.

This is a fun picture of Collette and friends, they are so "uplifting" to each other! (Collette is 3rd from the left)

We headed back to Jerome and were anxious to see Alisa and her family, they came the night before for the weekend. For those of you that have made that trip to Idaho, you know how hot and "scenic" it is, but we had our pop and music to get us through!

We were glad to see Grant, Alisa, and the kids and Zadyn kept telling everyone that there was Grandma...finally... as they stayed at our place the night before without us. After supper, we headed in for the wedding reception where Collette sang two songs and sounded beautiful. Later on, we all enjoyed root beer floats and taking crazy pictures with Grandpa!

Alisa and family spent most of the day on Sunday with the Orrs but we had fun again before bed with chocolate chip cookies (yes, I hit the gym pretty hard on Tuesday) and stories.After the kids were in bed, we played Encore, the game where you get a word or category and then come up with as many songs as you can think of. That is tons of fun and makes you realize just how many songs your brain can store. I think Collette was the ultimate winner (Uncle Dennis would be proud!).

Alisa and family headed home for Montana Monday morning. We will miss them and look forward to seeing them when they come back for Thanksgiving, weather permitting. We packed up and left for the traditional Labor Day trip to the Bruneu Sand Dunes which will be the next upcoming blog.