Sunday, August 15, 2010

Bear Lake

Okay, here we go again! Here's our cute little Kate who is growing by the minute.

We spent this past week in Bear Lake for the Maughan family reunion. I am so lucky to have the best in-laws of all time. We had the best time and stayed up so late playing games and laughing. Here's a few highlights of the week. This picture was after Josh's 3rd twinkie.


Here's some little baby toes in the sand.



Here's Kate playing with her cute cousin Kalli. Yes she is bundled up because it was freezing cold that day and even rained. Don't worry, we still spent the entire day at the beach, rain or shine.


We built lots of sandcastles.....


Josh played with the boats and trucks.....

One of the days we went up to Bloomington Lake. We went last year too but I didn't get to go off the rope swing because I was pregnant. I wanted to so bad because it looked like so much fun. So we went again this year. If you've ever been to Bloomington you'll know what I'm talking about....

Last year the rope swing was big and you could start from higher up to get a big swing, or start from lower down if you didn't want quite a ride, but either way it would shoot you clear out into the freezing water. Well....this year that swing had been cut down and someone put it on the other side of the tree. This side of the tree has one spot to go off from which was pretty high and was a narrow opening to jump through. It really didn't shoot you out into to lake too far and there were lots of rocks in the water so it was a little trickier this year. It was kind of scary but I still wanted to do it. Here is a picture of Trav doing the swing...very graceful yes.....


And here's one of me....

Not so graceful. Notice all the rocks? Well, almost as soon as I had taken off, my hands slipped off the rope. At least I did land in the water, but remember how I said it was shallow and there were lots of rocks? Luckily my foot stopped the fall. I know it could have been a lot worse but it resulted in a broken toe and a horrible bruise on my foot to the point where it felt better to walk tiptoe on the broken toe than to walk normally. Yeah....no more wakeboarding for me.

The picture doesn' t look too bad, but it is after 4 days of healing. No more wakeboarding, but that doesn't mean I can't tube! It was Josh's 1st year doing the tube and he liked it!



It's swamp thing!


And a vacation isn't complete without a good book. Okay y'all whose read the Hunger Games? This was book 2 and I couldn't put it down. Only 2 more weeks for book 3.......
I love Bear Lake, the raspberry shakes, the sand, sun, wakeboarding, tubing and everything else in between.

2 comments:

  1. What a fun vacation! (minus the broken toe/bruised heal part:()
    I don't think I've been to Bear Lake since 9th grade madrigals. Looks like you all had a blast. And I love the idea of the "stay-cation" you did. There are SO many fun things to do around town there. Glad you took advantage:)
    By the way, how was the reunion?

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  2. Fun trip! I am sorry about your foot. We went up to Bear Lake last weekend and the wind was insane. Jaxon kept saying he never wanted to see Bear Lake again. I hope he changes his mind one day.

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