Bear Lake!

I really can't believe we made it to Bear lake! Sure wish we could have gone again with the boys! (We planned it but it just never happened. Hopefully next year) But we still had lots of fun even though they were missed!

I drove up with the kids that late morning and it really went pretty smoothly. We got there at almost the same time as Jenn and her family! It worked out perfectly! The water was really high and so the beach was kind of in the weeds. They had tried to clean it up some so we still had some sand to play in.

Bentley really just ate Cheetos the whole time.. Jennah fed her Cheetos (So nice to share!)

Jenn fed her Cheetos!

And Bentley would find Cheetos in the sand and eat those as well (Not a good idea! She had a hard time passing all this sand poor girl! Where was her mother?!)

Apparently I wasn't taking pictures, I had to steal these from Jenn's blog! (Sorry! but Thanks) Gk had so much fun with Jenn's brother Court! He was in Heaven!! Court was SO nice to play with him. Gk gets plenty of girl time I think sometimes he just wants to hang with the guys! Thanks again Court! The kids were pretty messy and tired so it was time to pack up and go!

But we had to stop at Jenn's favorite shake place and I must say they were delishe!

I was hurrying back to a softball game and Patrick was meeting me there to watch the kids while I played... Well they were a MESS!! They were covered in filth and I was out of diapers and Bentley had pooped through her drawers!! Poor Patrick had to clean up after our road trip after he'd been working all day for us. Thanks Babe! You are the Best!

Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken up at Silver Lake in the middle of July. It was SO pretty and the pictures are amazing. I am really happy with them. But when we were heading down we stopped at a natural spring to fill up our water bottle and when we got almost to the bottom of the canyon there was a really bad accident and they said it would be at least a 3 hour wait. I had plans to go see Harry Potter with Teena so I couldn't miss that. We turned around to go back up Guardsman's Pass. It was such a pretty drive. I really liked it. I was a little distracted because we only had 1/8th tank of gas. But when we got to the top we had to get out and look around! It was gorgeous!!

We went down a little further and we saw a cow moose. We backed up so the kids could see it and our Low Fuel light came on so we didn't stay for long. It was a really nice drive down. Funny how some things can could be a real bummer could be so fun!

... But I wouldn't post about the real bummer things!

1st Kayak ride

We drove up to Tibil Fork (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) to put the kayak in the water and get up in the mountains for a little bit. We learned a lot on our first trip out.

Things like, park close, unload the kayak first, try the life jacket on Bentley before you go...

Gk loved the ride
Bentley screamed the whole time! Poor thing. she would be okay for a moment when I'd point out a duck or let her touch the water but she just wanted that life vest off!
We really should have taken GK's fishing pole with us. We didn't even think about it. All the people there fishing and he was so sad he didn't have a pole. Next time hopefully we'll remember a few things we didn't know!

We just wanted to take the kayak out on some water and try it out with the kids... Well the Herriman pond wasn't open that weekend, The Riverton Pond we thought of was closed too. What could the odds have been so we thought we'd try Daybreak, but we don't have a permit so we just went to a little splash park. I didn't even know this was a splash park. I'd been there dozens of times. The kids still had a blast but I think the adults were a little disappointed!

So we went next door and got us some treats, then we were all HaPpY!

More Raging Waters.. I mean Seven Peaks!

We sure do love our pass of all passes, even if we did only really go to the water park~

Sometimes we'd just go for a couple of hours to get out! I'm glad I got a couple of pictures!

Proof that Brandon actually came. Gk was so happy to have a guy around!

I wish I could say that swimming zonked the kids out every time. The girls for sure, but GK not so much! You know he played hard when he fell asleep on the way home.

Play date with McKell!

We played in the yard non-stop this summer! We were lucky enough to get McKell to come over and play with us one day. I think she was sad that Bentley was napping but she was happy to blow bubbles for GK & D'Ohgee.

The Aquarium

I really like the aquarium. I think I like it more than the kids do, but I think the penguins are SO stinking cute! We'd go there more if everytime we left there wasn't a tantrum about the gift shop. Gk sure tries, every time!

This picture pretty much sums up what happens when I try to take a picture! But at least they are both looking!

Bentley is such a sweet heart!

So I wanted to get a couple of pictures with Bentley and a pineapple (I know I'm totally random..) and GK just had to get in on the "fun"! Of course with a fishing pole as his prop!