Lesson learned.

When everybody wants to go to Fiesta Ole for lunch and Andrew says, "No! Let's go to Taco John's!" we need to listen. Emily, Ethan and I got so sick we were throwing up for almost two days! So much for Fiesta Ole. I don't think we'll be able to eat there again! Next time Andrew suggests a restaurant, we'll listen!

Adorable pictures.

I'll post more pictures from our Idaho trip later, but for now, I'll post a few from the first 5 minutes at Ethan's house. We arrived in their driveway and right away Andrew and Mikaela were climbing all over us and the car! These two are the most adorable kids!

And the best for last. :)

Pictures for Ethan.

This post is for Ethan. He's trying to pick pictures to frame in his bedroom.

Ethan -- just leave a comment on this post and tell me which ones you want me to upload on Scrapbook Pictures.com.

:)

Baby Kayden.

We went to Idaho for a few days this week. We got to see Philip and Kaylee's new baby. He is so beautiful, we could just stare at him all day!

Woo Hoo!

Philip and Kaylee had their baby boy today! Kayden Scott was born this afternoon weighing in at 6 lbs., 1 oz. and 17 inches long! We can't wait to see you Kayden!

The last of England.

We went on a little walk the last evening we were in London. You can't leave London without seeing Big Ben. The confusing this is getting off at the Big Ben tube station! There are like 7 different exits that take you to 7 different parts of Parliament Square! We seem to always take a different one every time we go! This time, we ended up on the wrong side of Big Ben. The cool part was we realized the London Eye was so close, when we used to think it was too far of a walk! We decided to ride it for the first time. There were so many awesome views of downtown London. If I knew we were riding it, I would have brought my telescopic lens so we could get some really cool close up shots, but I wasn't prepared. We did get TONS of pictures, though!

It was well worth the trip! If we ever go again, we'll definitely make time for a ride on the London Eye!

We for sure couldn't leave until we got 50,000 pictures of Big Ben. (Okay, maybe not 50,000. We got more like 50.) Here are a few of our favorites.

Now that we're done with our England posts, we will go back to inconsistent blogging. Hopefully something exciting happens around here. The weather forecast calls for thunder storms over the next couple of days. Maybe the other half of our tree will get struck by lightning and fill our backyard with debris! (Just like the last thunderstorm!)

How is this okay?

It's so hot here our candles are melting.

Heading to London.

After York, we left for London and had to turn in our car. We took the tube (London's underground system) to our hotel. There was a central tube station right across the street from the hotel.

We stayed in this hotel during our last trip and it was a Holiday Inn, but they upgraded in April to a Crowne Plaza. We still got the same rate for a better room! It was so fun!

We went to some of our favorite stores.

Marks & Spencer

Laura Ashley

Cath Kidston

We discovered Cath Kidston in York and found that they have more stores in London. We couldn't quit visiting this store! It's adorable! We thought we loved Laura Ashley, but we love Cath Kidston just as much (and we'd hate to say we might love it more!)

York Minster.

After Edinburgh, we traveled back to England to stay in Leeds. Leeds is about 15 minutes away from York. We wanted to stay in York, but we couldn't find a place to stay because they had the York horse races on May 13 and 14 . . . which happened to be the exact dates we were there. So, it was easier to stay in Leeds and just drive over to York.

Our British Heritage Passes were going to expire on the 13th, so we got to Leeds early enough to visit Leeds Castle. When we got our hotel room all situated, we got back in the car and entered "Leeds Castle" in our navigation system. The route showed it would take 4 hours to get there. What?!?!?! We then looked at the detailed directions and they lead to London. Apparently Leeds Castle is in London, not Leeds. How ridiculous! So our passes expired and we couldn't use them anymore. We just explored Leeds the first day and decided to drive to York the next day.

York Minster was absolutely amazing! It reminded us so much on Notre Dame (but on a smaller scale.) We have so many awesome pictures, it was so hard to just pick a few!