Rafting the Bosie River

Katie and Travis (my niece and nephew) came to stay with us for a week and we had a great time. One highlight was rafting down the Boise river. We counted at least 4 rough rapids probably coming in at a class 1 maybe 2 but to the kids they were more of a 6/U (which is unrunnable). It took about 3 hours and one of the highlights was going under the bridges by Boise State with all of the fans dressed in Blue and Orange heading to the football game. Katie, Hanna, Sara, and Travis heading for rough waters. Getting ready to go with sunscreen and bugspray. Carter giving us the business about wearing a hat, lifejacket, sunscreen, etc. Princess Allie who wanted to jump in and swim the whole time and was not too excited about just sitting in the boat. We did jump in several times, just not enough for her taste. The front of our boat. Notice no pictures of Scott - thats because we still haven't found our camera so these pictures are off of Scott's cell phone.

Boise update

Well we are mostly moved in and so far we love Boise. I would love to post some pictures but our camera got lost a week or two before we left and I was hoping that it would turn up in one of the boxes but it didn't (so far). The pictures I do have are from Hanna's camera this is the only one in the computer so far and it is Carter "helping" carry boxes to the truck. I am happy to report that I'm not missing anything else, and I haven't found anything broken. We had so much great help loading, unloading, and cleaning. I'm so grateful for everyone who helped and moved our stuff carefully. My kids have all been great about all of the changes we are making. Scott hung some swings fron the big willow tree in our new backyard so they love to spend time out there. They like school are are making new friends. Scott and I got a calling teaching the 7-year-olds exactly one week after we moved in. Katie and Travis (my niece and nephew) have been here staying with us for the past week and we have done so many fun things but, they left today and we are all so sad to see them go. Last Friday we went to the water park for the day. Saturday we took rafts down the Bosie River. We have been swimming, riding bikes, browsing downtown, and to the movies. Tomorrow there is "art in the park" at a park down by the river, we are excited to go to that and then our ward is having a "Luau". The kids are counting down the days until we get to go to Cedar and see our......CATS! and grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins, but they (especially Allie) is excited about seeing the cats. For those of you who don't know we had outside cats in Cedar that we were not allowed to bring with us and the kids are missing them - we have adopted the neighbors dog KC which is a huge, white, friendly, old dog.