Mesa Falls

Finally the snow is gone and the weather is better so we have decided to start exploring the terrain around Rigby. Plus we have 9:00 o'clock church and needed away to subdue the wild animals that live in our house. We have found Sunday afternoon drives do the trick. A couple of weeks ago we drove up to Palisades Reservoir, but first we stopped off at Palisades creek camp ground to have a picnic. When we got there we noticed there was a hiking trail so after lunch we went for a short hike. We are very regretful that we didn't have a camera because there was a cool water fall and some neat looking cliffs. We soon realized we were very unprepared for a hike and turned back to the car. Ethan was very distraught for he wanted to hike further down the trail. As we continued toward the car we gave Ethan a lesson on how we were very unprepared for a hike and gave him an equipment list of what we need to be more prepared.
Sunday May 31, we set out to see the lower Mesa Falls just North of Ashton. We thought we were more prepared this week, but we were wrong. We forgot the insect repellent and the mosquitoes were very thick they about carried Kyra off. We went down to the falls had some nice lady take a picture and ran back to the car. Then as we were ready to leave I looked at the camera and notice the nice lady didn't get the falls in the picture so I ran down to the falls and snapped a picture to prove that we were actually at Mesa falls. The drive was very beautiful and the kids had fun too. Next time we will have the bug spray ready.

"Good friends"

I have got to give my good cousins The Rileys a little shout out for giving such awesome parties/wedding receptions in their backyard.
Deacon and Ethan had a blast catching up on being best buddies from when Deacon lived in Boise. I think both were glad to have somebody to graple with.
The great thing about wedding receptions is that you get to catch up with family and have fun hanging out with them it was cool.

10 thousound square foot of sod

Our sod arrived Thursday around 5:oo we were able to start laying it around 6:00 or 6:30. We were thankful for some great neighbors who saw we could use some help and came to the rescue. we had the front yard done by about 8:30. I can't believe how nice it looks to have grass! I have also been able to get some flower in. It is starting to look great.

Getting ready for the sod was a lot of work. All the piles are rock that we raked up. It took us all day Friday to get the sod laid in the back. David started about 5:30 and I made it out of bed at 6:30. We worked all day OK so it was about 12:00 when we called it a night. We are very excited to have grass. The kids are already having lots of fun running and playing on it. Thanks again to all who have helped in the process of helping us make this rockie ground ready for grass.

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