Here's Ginger and Brianna having a drink from the hose.

When she wasn't spraying down the dogs, Bree was getting her Grammy Dee-Dee sopping wet or making her try the concoctions she'd "cooked" from the pool water.

Taste-testing the "soup."

Here's Bree, with cousing Julia, filling up the pool with the sprayer. Since it was so hot while we were there Bree loved all activities involving water but she especially liked using the sprayer because of the sense of power it gave her.

Zoo Boise

Grammy Dee-Dee took Brianna, Great Grandma Barbara and I to the zoo while we were there. We all had fun..Bree especially liked the monkeys and the butterfly garden.

One of Bree's favorite parts of the zoo was getting to "ride" this baby tiger.

Ah yes, the wonder of childhood. Check out this priceless look of "wow" as Bree finds a butterfly in the butterfly garden.

This is Brianna and me sitting in a huge "nest" in the children's section.

Quality Time With the Fam

Amongst all our other running around we did manage to spend a lot of good quality time with all our family in Idaho as well.

Brianna grinning at her Great Grandpa Jerry as they enjoy an ice-cream cone together.

These are the "high heel" dress-up shoes that Brianna got from Grammy Dee-Dee. Bree insisted on wearing them all the time for several days in a row.

Of course, Bree managed to work in a game of chess as well...I think she won too.

A couple of my rocker cousins (James and Dan) playing guitar for Bree. She was so fascinated by them and would listen to them play for long stretches at a time.

Here's me (on the right) with my two baby sisters, Melissa and Emily.

Great Grandma Barbara with Bree as she pretends to hose down everyone else in the room. (That little black line is actually a tiny rubber tube from a toy fire truck.) For a while Brianna was calling her great grandma "different Grammy" but by the time we left for home she was calling her "Grape (great) Grammy." :)

Here's Bree enjoying a tomato that Poppa had just picked for her. She ate a lot of fresh fruit and veggies right off the plant or tree there. Seems like everyone had a garden of some sort.

Hanging with Poppa Roger on one of many expeditions out to see the pond, the dogs, or the horses out back.

Feeding the horses with Poppa Roger.

Brianna waving from the driver's side window of her "teeny house," (my grandparents little motor home.) Bree was actually quite enthralled with the novelty of it and insisted on playing in there quite a bit.

Looking adorable by the fish pond.