At Grandma Chicken's house

 Next stop, Western Idaho for a week at Grandma Chicken's house. 

We did a belated birthday party for Evelyn, a proper tea party actually. Just minus the tea. But all the accompanying treats were authentic, cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches, scones, and cracker-like cookies. Evelyn wouldn't touch most of the treats of course (picky as she is), but the mini-chocolate cupcakes and lemonade (tea substitute) went over fine. Gordon felt like giving me a great big smooch in this picture, it's one of the things he likes to do right now. 

 This kid is such a cute stinker. I could pinch his cheeks all day long. Except when he starts beating on his sisters. Unfortunately, he is already really good at it. Especially with Jillian. She needs to put on some weight and muscle so she can hold her own against him. 

 Grandma and Grandpa Chickens thought it would be fun if we rented a cabin for a few days in McCall, Idaho. It was fun to sit around, and do anything we wanted. We played a lot of speed Rummikub and Canasta, ate too much food, fished, and mostly avoided being eaten by mosquitoes. We also discovered that YouTube carries a lot of old Disney cartoons, and spent some time looking up favorite ones from when we were kids and watched them. Our kids loved them. 

We visited the local fish hatchery. 

 Evelyn figured out how to work this chair, but Jilly doesn't have the weight to keep it open by herself and it tried to eat her. She has the same problem at movie theaters. 

 Grandma bought magnetic "paper" dolls for the girls to play with. 

And Gordon loved his truck and trailer combo, complete with horses. He uses it to stow cars and tractors though.  

We visited some of Ben's other relatives, Tom and Patricia before we left Idaho. They have chickens too, this was a half-grown one the girls were brave enough to pet. Tom has a good-sized train room, and Gordon wanted to stay there and stare at the trains and play with them. These ones were not for touching though. On the way out of town, we spent the night at Auntie Chelle and Uncle Nate's new house while waiting for Daddy to come back from Salt Lake City on the airplane. The kids all loved the two little chihuahuas they have, although I am sure the poor dogs were happy to have the kids leave.

Thank you Idaho, we love you!