Horsethief

For the 4th of July our family took a day trip up to Horsethief Reservoir to meet up with our good friends Eddie and Erin. Horsethief is about 20 minutes outside of Cascade, ID which is about 90 minutes from Boise. When the kids woke up we put them in the car, drove to pick up supplies and food for the day, and then headed up to Horsethief. Piper slept pretty much the whole way and Pennington slept for about 30 minutes. We got there around 10:30am and headed straight for the lake. The kids LOVE it. Johnny and Pennington fished off the dock and went swimming and Piper and I played in the water. Pennington couldn't stop talking about fishing and swimming. We tried to lay the kids down for a nap but we had no luck. Of course when we put the kids in the car to drive home at 7:30pm they both passed out within about 10 minutes.

Johnny and I realized that while it isn't ideal to have your children sleep in car seats that the drive up and back was super relaxing because the kids slept and we were able to have a few hours to just talk to each other. Johnny and I don't get a lot of time together since we both work and only have a few nights a week where neither one of us is working.

We also realized that what we loved about our childhood was getting outside. We are hoping to take the kids on more day trips and hopefully venture out on our first overnight camping trip with the kids next summer.

When we got home around 9:30pm last night the neighborhood kids were lighting off fireworks in the cul-de-sac. Both Pennington and Piper were interested in what fireworks are but the loud noises scared them. Since the kids had already been asleep for about an hour and half on the drive home there didn't want to go straight to bed especially since it sounded like there were bombs going off outside. So Johnny and I had to stay up with them until the fireworks stopped around 11pm and ended up having to sleep with both of them. Oh the joys of parenthood.

Below are a few pictures of the family at Horsethief.

t