Bear Lake

 

 

We took our first little trip as a family of five to Bear Lake this weekend. We drove up to 

Logan, had a little picnic (which was immediately crashed by a hundred mosquitos), visited the temple and stayed in a hotel for the night. The kids love staying in hotels, we could have just left after that and they would have been satisfied. Two beds to jump on, a tv, a mini fridge and a telephone, what more could you want? Oh and a buffet breakfast of course, with fruit loops to boot. Caroline was carrying her bowl of fruit loops and tripped, spilling her cereal all over the breakfast eating area, which of course brought about some  tears. While Clint was cleaning up the mess, and I was comforting Caroline, Thomas went and got her a new bowl of cereal without anyone asking him to. He is a little sweetheart. He said, "I just thought I could help my sister because she was in trouble." A stranger saw Thomas's act of service and came up to him and thanked him for being so kind. He got very bashful, but afterwards was just beaming. I hope he can remember that feeling. He is such a good brother.  Anyway....back to our trip... So the next day we drove up to the lake where we enjoyed a nice, relaxing and carefree day playing at the beach.

The kids wasted no time getting into the water. 

 

You can't be surrounded by this much sand and not play with some trucks. Thomas and papa started a serious construction project.

The lady, after playing in the cold water, was perfectly content to just stay bundled in a blanket. Meanwhile mama took a nice nap in the sun with the baby bear.

Still working hard.

Still bundled up.

Ah! Finally warmed up. Time to get back to play.

Theo was having a nice time as well. He is such a pleasant little guy.

I love snuggling that chubby little baby boy.

Two of my favorite people right here.

The finished project! 

The proud foreman. In the background you will see a little boy who was just aching to demolish Thomas' sand castle, and he ultimately succeeded. But luckily Thomas wasn't upset about it and joined in.

Thomas making sand Angels 

My beach beauty

I really like these people! Our trip was a success! After the beach we went and got some raspberry shakes. Except for the children who opted for chocolate chip instead and if course ate about five bites and ran away. We hit the road and headed back home and we learned something new about young Theodore. He is NOT a fan of long distance drives. After about an hour and a half of some serious screaming we were happy to pull into our driveway. The kids were incredibly patient during this drive and never once lost their temper or got frustrated with Theo. When we got out of the car Thomas exclaimed, "that was the longest drive of my entire life!" Meanwhile we carry in Theo, who has a very red, very puffy, very tear stained face. And once he is free from the car he just can't stop flashing his 100 watt dimpled smile at everyone. Silly little guy.....