Rexburg and Idaho Falls

This weekend I took a "temple trip" to Rexburg and Idaho Falls. I drove to Rexburg after work on Friday, checked into my hotel, and went to Costa Vida to grab some dinner. Costa Vida was a very popular date destination in Rexburg on a Friday evening. The line was pretty long, so I amused myself with an activity I made up called "First Date: Last Date or Eternal Mate?" It's a pretty complicated game, but basically it involved watching couples who were clearly on their first date and trying to decide if the girl was thinking their first date was also going to be their last date... or if she was thinking she had found her eternal mate. I like to think my "rate of accuracy" in this guessing game has to to be at least 95%.

I went to the Rexburg Temple on Saturday morning, then drove to Idaho Falls and did a session there. My parents were married in the Idaho Falls Temple and my Grandma and Grandpa Thomas used to serve there, so it was neat to be there.

After the session, I tried to find the house my family lived in when we lived in Idaho Falls. I was in Kindergarten, so my memories of this house include the playroom under the stairs, my pink flowered wall paper, and the Church of the Nazarene parking lot across the street where I learned to ride my bike. I was excited to see the house had been well kept up. And somehow I really liked the pickup with camper shell parked out front. I thought it added to the overall affect.

I stood across the street from the house and took some pictures, then drove around the corner and took some pictures of the backyard that I thought my Dad might be interested in. I had Miranda Lambert's CD with "The House That Built Me" in my car as an explanation if anyone was wondering why some girl with Utah license plates on her car was walking around taking cell phone pictures of a random house in Idaho Falls. But no one asked. So I took my pictures, then hopped back in my car and came home. It was a fun little weekend trip down memory lane.