2011 Bear Lake trip

Last year as we were getting ready to leave Bear Lake, our kids said they thought we should make it a tradition to go there every year, so we booked the cabin for this summer. We had such a fun time, everyone got along so well and helped out. Each family was in charge of making and cleaning up one meal, and then we just took stuff to make sandwiches both days to the lake. On our way, our car stopped at the new Brigham City temple, it is so pretty!

We celebrated Molly's birthday while were were there.

Make a wish and blow out those candles!

The kids rented a canoe and had fun rowing around the lake

We brought rafts and tubes to float around in. The girls loved pulling people around in the rafts



Jamie's family playing in the sand

Jamie and Jordan on the beach

Josh's family

The Hurst family

Opi and Grammy

Matt drove his truck, so they had room to bring their jeep. Aida gave her dad a ride in the jeep, I didn't know it could hold adults!

Abbie loved having a turn to drive the jeep, I love the look on her face!

We had a fun family game of kick ball. Everyone got to play and had a great time, kick it hard Aida.

Run Abbie, Run!!!!

Safe!!!!

In the evenings we played games. There were fun things to do all the time.

Krista brought some glittery fingernail polish and the girls had fun getting a manicure or pedicure.

Don gave Matt and Aida a ride in his truck

Victor the cat kept the girls entertained. He was at the cabin most of the time, even though he belonged to Don, who picked up our garbage every morning in his cool truck.

The big girls loved playing puzzles

I brought some playdough for the girls to play with

The big girls had fun playing Molly's new game.

Jamie and Emily had to leave Tues. night since it was finals week for Jamie, so before they left, we made sommores, at the fire pit near the cabin.

Wednesday morning, we packed up and headed for home. We sure had a great time, thanks everyone for taking time out of your busy schedule to come with us!!!

Taylor Jay Birks' blessing day

Today was Taylor's blessing day. Chip gave him a beautiful blessing. Taylor is a darling baby, and they are the cutest little family!

Jamie and Jordan were so thrilled that they could be here for the blessing. Chip and Elycia invited them over for a sleepover the night before, and they had fun playing with Taylor.

What cute boys!

 

Our adventure day

Josh is at scout camp this week, and since Merijane works on Wednesday, we picked up the girls early today so she could go to work. Just before I went to pick up the girls, I got this great idea to play at Gateway on the way home. I called Krista at 9:15 and she was out jogging. I had to pick up the girls in Woodscross at 10:00. I asked Krista if she and her girls would like to join us. She turned around and headed for home, and grabbed their swim suits, and met me at the freeway and we made it to Josh's house on time. I loved this picture of Aida

Nothing like water to put a smile on your face

4 very wet girls

Getting wet when it's so warm feels soooooo good!

On our way out of Gateway, Libbie showed us this great echo room. The girls loved making all kinds of noises, very loud, and running all around there.

Just as we were leaving Gateway,we saw the Trax train go by. We had never taken them on a ride on it, and I asked them if they would like to go, and they were all excited so away we went. Here they are waiting for the train.

Here we are on Trax, the girls were great and loved the ride!

Krista had been wanting to take the girls to the Church History Museum, so when they announced the Temple Square stop, we hopped off and headed there. They had the funnest display set up and the girls absolutely LOVED it. We were there for 2 hours and they didn't want to leave. They had Nephi's boat and some fishing poles with magnets and fish, Libbie and Katie were fishing and Hailey was below putting fish on their lines down below

Aida checking out Nephi's boat

There was a display teaching the girls how to hand sew that was giant

These two really got into the sewing

There were lots of quilts and they had magnet quilt pieces the kids could put together on a HUGE magnet board to make all kinds of interesting patterns

there was an area where you could plant a garden

There was a wall that had tons of Book of Mormon dolls, lots were made of wood and had clothes you could velcro on

More Book of Mormon dolls

There was a table where you could pretend to eat dinner with the missionaries

Aida doing dishes after feeding the missionaries

They had a display where the kids could put on fancy Mexican skirts, and had a video on a big screen showing them how to dance. On the other wall was a mirror that was huge!!!!

The dancing was Hailey's favorite part of the day, we need to make the girls some skirts like these, they were darling.

We had some very tired girls at the end of the trip. Katie and Aida made a little bed for themselves out of some benches and giant soft building blocks. It was such a fun day, thanks Krista for dropping everything and coming to play! I think that was the most spontaneous, fun day I have had in years!!!