Memorial Day with the Thurgoods

For Memorial Day Weekend we got a visit from Lance's sister, DeAnn and her family. We had so much fun with the Thurgoods! We hope they come to visit again someday.

We started our adventures with a trip to Boise. We went to a park and ate our picnic lunch. The kids played on the playground for a while too. We walked across the Boise River because I wanted them to see it good. Then we drove over to go on a nature walk around the Morrison Knudsen Nature Center. There is a stream with "windows" in it so you can see the fish very well. It's one of the cool things along the Boise Greenbelt.

DeAnn gave me a tutorial in cake decorating with fondant. It was very helpful! We ate the cake on Sunday.



Later than night we had a campfire and roasted marshmallows. Church on Sunday, of course. Then on Monday we went up into the mountains toward Idaho City to go fishing in the rain.

We went to Grimes Creek, which was very full with spring run-off. Hunter caught a huge sucker fish. DeAnn and I were making a tasty Dutch oven lunch of ribs, dutch oven potatoes, watermelon, a spoonful of baked beans, potato salad. Hunter brought the fish over to the "camp ground" area. He's so funny. He yelled, "Mom, you'd better pucker up! I caught a fish and it wants to give you a kiss!" We'll have to collect pictures from DeAnn (I forgot the camera). Hunter kind of wanted to keep the fish (Lance never does), but the fish got put into the water along the edge just to keep it there until it was time to go and Thayne reached down to tickle its belly and off the fish swam.

Shortly after that we had a big scare. Luke was upstream from Lance and he reached down to get a stick out of the water and he fell in. I guess he rolled himself over quickly because he was floating down the stream on his back. Lance had heard a noise and he looked up and there was Luke floating right by him. (Just writing this makes me a bit sick to my stomach). Lance jumped right in and pulled him out. His nose and mouth were out of the water. Both were very calm about the whole thing. We got Luke stripped down and into an extra sweatshirt and wrapped in a blanket in the van. We pulled the van back by the food so he could "be with us." Then the rain picked up and we all ended up eating inside our vans anyway. Thayne is convinced that Luke didn't die "because, he needs to do something important: like go on a mission and baptize thousands of people or be an apostle or something." I do think Luke is pretty special, but I don't really know what his mission in life is. I'll be happy to just wait and see (right now I just am trying to teach him to be reverent in Primary!). We're so glad he's safe and we don't want to repeat that adventure again. Later that day Luke told me, "That was kind of fun, but scary." I've told him he not allow to float down rivers or creeks without a raft.

We wished the cousins could have stayed a day or two longer, but we had school the next day so they headed back to Utah.

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