Bear Lake

the kids playing in the backyard of the condo.

We just got back from a family vacation at Bear Lake, and we had a great time. We didn't do much, but it was nice to just relax and not worry about housework, or yard work, or callings. Every thing we did was 100% for and with the family. We didn't even have internet! The kids didn't want to leave, in fact Haley wanted us to move into the house.

We stayed in a 2 bedroom condo, which was nice because we could keep bedtimes and naptimes. We also ate breakfast and lunch there which is much easier with 3 little kids. Luckily it even had a washer and dryer, because our first day there our kids decided to get extremely muddy.

One of the things the kids were most excited about was fishing. They loved it, even though Kevin didn't even put hooks on their lines. That just sounds like an accident waiting to happen. There were weights on the end of their lines and they just had fun casting. Isaac was asleep so he and I stayed in the car.

The first day we played at a park and then walked down to the beach. Even though the water temp was only around 45, all 3 kids decided to get wet and muddy. It was a very long walk back to the car. We went out to dinner and had really good ribs and steak. That night as we were driving to the wildlife refuge, we passed tons of cow farms and figured the meat was so good because it was fresh. The wildlife refuge was a refuge for birds. There were lots of Canadian geese with babies.

The condo had a fireplace which we all loved. I especially liked to nap in front of it.
It also gave Kevin a good excuse to play with his camera.

We went swimming every day in the indoor heated pool, because it was still kind of chilly there. By the end of the third day Haley was actually swimming by herself. She was so proud of herself. We did have to bribe her with a raspberry shake to get her started, but we all shared it.


Logan swimming (more like running without ever touching ground.) Kevin says it reminds him of the treading exercises his mom used to do in the pool.

Isaac's our little daredevil. We had to put the floaties on him because he kept leaving the 2 ft wading pool to try to get in the big pool. Here he is floating along in the big pool with the big kids. Never one to be left out.

On the drive home through the Cache National Forest we saw a shmoose (She or female moose). Kevin doesn't believe that there are really Moose with antlers (we've always only seem shmooses.) He thinks they must be related to Jackalopes.

At Rick Springs, even though they finally figured out it really isn't a spring but the Logan river coming thorugh cracks in the rocks. People kept getting sick from drinking the water, they thought it was a clear mountain spring.

Here is Logan swimming. The two things he says are "I'm fwimming" (no not a typo), and "I won" at the end. We're still trying to find out who he was racing.

Isaac and Haley in the wading pool.