The year that my mom had my smallest brother, Casey, my family had just moved to Idaho Falls a couple of years before. With my dad owning his own practice in town, my mom saw that my dad's practice was very time-consuming, and impeded heavily on our family time. At first, she tried to find new destinations that we could go to as a family for vacations and "family time". After a little while, she got tired of planning so many vacations at a time, and decided that what we needed was a cabin. We found some land in Island Park, located on Island Park Reservoir, which was only an hour and a half drive from our home. It was perfect.
The cabin became a wonderful retreat for my family, and we always looked forward to spending time there. While I was in college, it became a meeting place for us with my cousins who lived in Washington during President's Day weekend. It was tradition to go to the cabin with my cousins during President's Day and we always looked forward to it. Princess loved the cabin, and was able to roam free through the woods that surrounded it. This particular President's Day was when we realized that we needed to put Princess down, and it was a blessing that I was there to see her deteriorate.
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