Skipping ahead

Trying to catch up might need to wait a bit, so I thought I'd just jump to a more current time. Here is one picture from our trip to Boise. I had planned on putting a few more on, however, the air card is not cooperating and will not upload at the speed in which I would like. I'll add more later.
Rob and I were able to fly down for the weekend to attend the opening exhibition game of the Boise State Bronco basketball team in the Taco Bell Arena, to support Coach Rice.

Needless to say it was nice to get away, and to enjoy being with friends and family.
The kids stayed close to home with Aunt Diane, Uncle Jeff and Grandma and had a good time! We missed their Halloween, but they didn't seem to mind. Aunt Diane went to the school and attended the class parties and then later that evening took them to their ward party.
Back in Boise, Rob and I stayed with the Rice's in their beautiful home. Boise was beautiful and WARM at that time of year. I was tempted to move us down. However, coming back to our home in CDA convinced me that we should just stay put, not necessarily for the beauty of it, (although I do love this area) but we have too much junk for me to have any motivation for moving!
That first night there we went to the game and on Saturday we stopped by practice for awhile. It was great to see the coaches and players in action.With as much as I have always loved basketball it was probably one of the best parts of the weekend!!
After that we stopped by to see Rob's Aunt Irene (actually Rob's great-aunt) who is 95 and just fun to talk to. She had so many great stories, I could have listened to them all day.

However, I have my own uncle in Boise as well, and I wanted to visit with him too. So we left Aunt Irene and went to see Uncle Dennis. Unfortunately we didn't get to visit with either of them for very long, but it was still great to see them.


We also took some time to drive around to look at a home Rob's mom lived in when she was in high school.

It would have been nice to have a little more time to take a leisurely drive through the area. The only times I've ever been to Boise I was just passing through, usually at night and shooting too fast down the freeway to see anything.
It was a fun trip and maybe we'll do it again sometime. I'd love to take the kids down in the summer and float the river down to campus. We shall see.