Bear Lake

We had a wonderful time in Bear Lake with Darin's family earlier this month. We stayed in a big huge house. We actually had 2 houses-a "kid" house and a "grown up" house for all the grandmas and grandpas who needed their beauty sleep:)

Our trip was a bit rocky getting there. We left Darcie's but didn't give Spencer the dramamine in enough time. So....here we go again.We were in Sardine Canyon when Spencer started to make the horrible noises, and I knew it was coming. He threw up, and then we heard Jordan's scream....."my backpack." Yes, it hit the back of her backpack. We pulled over to clean up, then a state trooper pulled up to ask if we needed help. When I explained, he said he figured that since he has a son who gets car sick. He was so nice. Don't think a state trooper in Virginia would have been that nice....

So we arrived to this house:And here's the view from the deck of the house:




It was so fun to see everyone again. The kids immediately started playing and we found our rooms. The girls found a room with 2 sets of double bunk beds, so they claimed it for the 9 little girls who were there! The were so excited.

After everyone arrived we had dinner, then played some "minute to win it" type games. It was mostly for the kids and the loved it. It was pretty fun to watch. I especially loved the oreo on the forehead one.



It took us forever to get the girls to calm down and go to bed, which was lovely since we were given the room next to the girls. There were a couple hold outs until after midnight, but their dad finally came down and took the light bulbs out. (Which the next day the girls in turn stole the light bulbs from Spencer and Landon's room!! Smart girls:)

On Monday, we went to North Beach State Park, which is actually in Idaho. We had a fabulous day; well, with the one exception of Uncle Rick's truck breaking down!

We played in the sand, water, rode the sea doos, ate, and played some more. We stayed way longer than we Aunt Coleen had planned, but we were all having so much fun!!

There were so many pics of the day, I had a hard time narrowing them down.

Darin took Landon on a sea doo. He loved it, but didn't want to go very fast. Spencer liked going faster, and Jordan-who took all day to convince to try it-wanted to go slow, too.

I could have gone over and over-so fun!!

Spencer would lay in t0 warm up.



Landon and Alyssa. Landon loved that paddle-I had taken him to the bathroom, and he found it in the water walking back to our area on the beach. All the kids loved it. I loved this series of pics-but Landon, shouldn't you have been pulling Alyssa?




The kids had a blast and played for hours! I think at one point, Jordan was rolling around in the sand....


Jordan loved that she had so many girl cousins to play with! Here she is with Rosie.

The boys had a blast digging. Casey was digging holes for them to go into. At one point he came up to talk to us watching and said Spencer made him laugh. Spencer was digging, then told Casey he couldn't dig very well. Casey asked him why, to which he replied "I'm not an American Badger." We all laughed, especially since I had told them all about his obsession with the PBS show Wild Kratts.



We finally decided to head back and have a late dinner. All the food we had the whole week was so good!! Needless to say, getting the kids to bed was so much easier than the night before. Then some of us stayed up and chatted for a while-it was so fun to catch up!