Me and my Peeps: Bear Lake

Monday, June 22, 2015

Bear Lake

Last week we got home from Florida on Monday and Jer was off to scout camp Tuesday morning. I really don't like just hanging out at home when he's gone, so since we had a Bear Lake week... we went. It was a little hard to get everything packed and ready after being gone, but with the help of my brother Seth we were able to get on our way. Seth mowed the lawn and helped me get packed. We left on Thursday and drove up following my Mom in her car with McKay's kids. We had so much fun. Baby had a really hard time for his first time at the lake. He wanted me to either hold him or be touching him for about 3 days straight. He loved walking in the lake, but hated trying to sit him down to play in the water. Ada, Aubrey and Emma were little fish/dolphins the whole time. Evelyn and Lance played pretend everywhere... the lake, the shore, the cabin, the fire... because we missed the work weekend, we tried to do some helpful things while we were there. We tried to get the kids involved, so we weeded and Seth helped the boys burned the weeds, I got the three older girls and it was really cute to watch them become an assembly line to wash all the dishes in the kitchen. It was really funny to hear them working together. Emma saying, "Come on Aubrey, my job is getting really boring." (She was rinsing and Aubrey was washing.) Aubrey was busy singing 'It's a hard knock life' from Annie. Ada skipped about half the work by saying she had to use the bathroom. Everyone did a great job working and we had a fun time playing afterwards.

Thank goodness for Grandmas, Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles, and Ada for taking baby for me to have free time to use the bathroom, prepare kids for swimming, and packing the tent up. He did rather like playing with the rocks though. By the way, my camera batteries were both dead so Sharon shared her pictures with me.

Sharon had baby in the cabin while I was trying to sleep for an hour or two (the baby really didn't like camping)... he saw Ada run past the window and started yelling, "Ada! Ada! Ada!"

Saturday night we drove home to see daddy and get ready for Father's Day. Seth drove back with us. We took turns driving and reading Harry Potter to the kids, it was fun and the kids did really well until we were about 20 minutes away... then they just wanted to get out! It was kind of funny.

Thanks family. I loved being at Bear Lake to chat and play. I love to take the kids, and all of them ask when we're going again. Here's to hoping that baby will like it next time!