Our last summer hurrah was a trip to Boise to see the cousins! Boo drove part of the way. She said it was "Terrible!" but there were only a few mistakes made and I thought she did great!
I felt bad for her because she kept getting advice from the peanut gallery. :P Noni kept the little ones entertained the whole way there!
Boo was glad when we finally stopped and she could relinquish the driver's seat back to Daddy.
We arrived and the cousins got straight to playing!
It was so fun seeing their new house! Last time we were here it was down to the studs.
Everything turned out beautifully! I loved all the huge windows. So much natural light! Uncle A built this huge table! It was gorgeous. He made us homemade pizza on his Egg grill and everyone loved it!
We went for a walk after dinner. The girls loved looking at all the beautiful houses in their neighborhood. This one was a favorite.
Theirs is the one behind us on the right. This neighborhood is up on a hill so they have a beautiful view of the hills out one side of the house and the city on the other side.
A big bonus for this year's trip is that Aunt K got to join us!! She flew in the same day we arrived and then she and Noni stayed to help them out for a week because little J's school was on break while everyone else went back to school.
The kids got ice cream for a bed time snack. I thought little J was so cute peeking over the counter. He has gotten so big and is so adorable!
The next morning I woke up and walked out of our room to find all the kids and the dog in one space. :)
Uncle A made us an amazing breakfast of homemade cinnamon rolls! So good!
Then we packed up and drove to a nearby park to float the Boise river!
I was so glad when they suggested it because I was hoping to redeem river floating in the girls' minds. After our bumpy experience over the 4th of July they did not want to do it, but just as I hoped it was awesome and they loved it! And it was nice that we already had the tubes to do it! (T had patched the holes on several of them that week.)
But it did take us a while to blow them all up!
It was perfect! Gorgeous weather, a nice peaceful float with tiny rapids and no tubes popped! There were only a few rocks, but we got smart and put our life jackets in the bottom of the tubes so when we did hit a rock there was something to cushion the blow.
We saw tons of ducks...many that came right up to us hoping we had food, and we even saw a huge bald eagle in a tree above us!
Auntie K got this video of us going over the one "waterfall" that they had. They rented a 6 person raft and the kids went back and forth between that and the tubes. We took the rental place's bus back to the park. So fun!!
After that we went back to the house for sandwiches.
We hung out for a bit...J thought Uncle T made a good jungle gym and Lou joined in. :)
Haha!
More pictures tomorrow!
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